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nVidia releases Quadro FX series
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
January 22nd 2003
Another salvo in the battle for dominance in the volatile graphics market
nVidia has announced that it has released the nVidia Quadro FX product line.� The
nVidia Quadro FX 2000 and the nVidia Quadro FX 1000 are in volume production now and
will be available "worldwide" in February 2003, according to the company.
?The design cycle has been a long, iterative process from concept, to modeling and
final production,? stated Jeff Brown, director, workstation product marketing.� ?The
programmability and performance of the nVidia Quadro FX makes production rendering an
integral part of real-time design, resulting in reduced design cycles, increased
productivity, and ultimately accelerating time-to-market.?
The nVidia Quadro FX series includes the nVidia Quadro FX 2000 and Quadro FX 1000
graphics solutions, both of which combine the industry?s first true 128-bit floating
point precision with an eight pipeline, fully programmable graphics engine to deliver
unprecedented levels of realism and interactive sophisticated real-time effects for
games, visual processing and other professional applications?and up to five times
faster line performance than Company?s previous generation products.� The combination
of high precision and full scene antialiasing the, with support for resolutions up to
3840x2400 QUXGA, results in visual quality unmatched by any solution previously seen
in the industry.
In coming weeks, worldwide PC OEMs, system integrators and add-in card manufacturers
will be offering products based on the nVidia Quadro FX, according to nVidia. However,
their press release makes no mention of Mac-compatible models.
Editor's note: With new pro desktop in the offing, in February perhaps, it's unlikely
nVidia would steal any of Apple's thunder with the announcement of new Mac-compatible
graphic cards now. nVidia has kow towed to Cupertino in the past and the possibility
that happening again here -- ie no announcement -- can't be discounted.
Quadro cards for the Mac must be seen as a priority for Apple given their efforts to
corner a significant portion of the content creation market.
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