Stop The Press!! Nvidia Quadro CX !!

[Mark L. Pederson]

Tomorrow - official press releases on the Nvidia Quadro CX will go out.

Here's the scoop -

HARDWARE ACELLERATION FOR ADOBE CS4
CUDA-enabled plug-in for HD H.264 encodes at lighting speeds!!

30-bit color
10/12 bit SDI option (this card has the connection to attach the Nvidia SDI option board)
Two Display Ports (10 bit off the GPU - hello Dreamcolor!!)
One Dual Link DVI
(** only two of the three ports active at time)
One three-pin stereo sync connection for sync w/3D shutter glasses (NVidia's glasses come out (cheap) in December)

MSRP approx. $2K - retail should be $1700-$1600 ish

** PC drivers ready - Mac drivers coming very soon -

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Sounds yummy. I'll get one as soon as Mac drivers are available.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

OK, things are finally moving...

 

[Joel Kaye]

Can't wait to see what hardware acceleration for CS4 actually looks like, but this could be big piece of the puzzle towards flattening the playing field even more.

 

[Mike Harrington]

CUDA-enabled plug-in for HD H.264 encodes at lighting speeds!!

would that happen to be
http://elementaltechnologies.com/how_it_works.php

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

would that happen to be
http://elementaltechnologies.com/how_it_works.php

Someone is paying attention ...

 

[RivaiC]

Now this is a news !

 

[Jason Diamond]

mac drivers ready set please turn the key....

 

[Bruce Allen]

would that happen to be
http://elementaltechnologies.com/how_it_works.php

Anandtech tested it. It sucked:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3374

Hopefully next version is much better? Everything has to start somewhere... anyway, this is very exciting. Thanks for the news!

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Simon Blackledge]

As long as I can get SDI out from a mac from the GPU I'm happy...

 

[Curran Giddens]

Nice! I can finally get rid of my stock ATI...

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Nice... are there alternative to the DreamColor?

 

[Simon Blackledge]

Don't think so.

Is the new apple 8bit?

Mind the DC has dropped in price..

s

 

[Santiago Marti]

found it listed here!

http://www.govconnection.com/IPA/Sh...60&id=+5090&Sort=Availability&DefSort=Y&Term=

only the price, no photo or description. i want it now!

 

[Michele Gavazzeni]

Mac drivers coming very soon

also for the SDI board??'

 

[Simon Blackledge]

also for the SDI board??'

hope so!

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

also for the SDI board??'

The SDI board needs no drivers - it just connects to the graphics card - it already ships as it is used with the 4500 card - they are considering lowering the price of that board to put a smile on your face -

 

[Michele Gavazzeni]

The SDI board needs no drivers -

So what was the reason why we couldn't install it on a Mac?

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Lol!!

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

So what was the reason why we couldn't install it on a Mac?

the actual graphics card needs a mac driver - the SDI board connects to the graphics card and facilitates SDI output (from the graphics card) it's technically two boards connected with a small ribbon cable