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Nvidia 128 core video cards
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Mar 5, 2007, 06:43 PM
 
Um... 128-core? I think they've got it wrong. nVidia has released a Quadro-class card (their workstation-class solution) based on their 128-bit stream 8800GT architecture.
But to call it a 128-core system is not even remotely correct.
     
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Mar 6, 2007, 10:13 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cadaver View Post
Um... 128-core? I think they've got it wrong. nVidia has released a Quadro-class card (their workstation-class solution) based on their 128-bit stream 8800GT architecture.
But to call it a 128-core system is not even remotely correct.
"...NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV that the company says represents the biggest leap in performance for its graphics cards yet. One giant leap indeed, because these parallel processing monsters have the rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors cranking away at graphics in a whole new way."

It's 128 cores. Both Intel and AMD have something similar, but neither has anything in production right now.
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Mar 6, 2007, 02:44 PM
 
The card will probably also cost more than a Mac Pro itself.
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Mar 7, 2007, 10:28 AM
 
The 8800GTX is the same thing, just a gamer card instead of a pro card... 128 shaders.
     
   
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