SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Professionals searching for
oil, diagnosing illness or styling the next high-performance luxury vehicle
all have one thing in common, the need for advanced visual computing
solutions. NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing
technologies, today unveiled the most powerful professional graphics card in
graphics history -- the NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) FX 5800.
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"The size and complexity of data is growing at an exponential rate. The
challenge for today's professional is to make sense of the mountain of data by
distilling it into a form they can comprehend, analyze and use to make
impactful decisions," said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional
Solutions, NVIDIA. "At stake can be billions of investment dollars, or even
people's lives. The Quadro FX 5800 has advanced features to allow massive
datasets to be viewed beyond traditional 3D enabling professionals to make
fast and accurate decisions."
The Quadro FX 5800 graphics card offers unprecedented performance and
scalability to rapidly visualize and interpret massive datasets that until now
were unattainable on a workstation graphics board. Offering up to 240 CUDA(TM)
programmable parallel cores and the industries first 4GB of graphics memory,
the Quadro FX 5800 graphics card is ideally suited for oil and gas
exploration, medical imaging, styling and design, and scientific
visualization. Other advanced features of the Quadro FX 5800 graphics card
include:
-- Interactive 4D modeling with time lapse capabilities
-- Massive memory bandwidth of up to 102 GB per second
-- Fill rates that exceed 52 billion texels per second and geometry
performance of 300 million triangles per second
-- Support for next-generation OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 10
applications
-- Advanced multi-system and multi-device visualization environments with
Quadro G-Sync II
"Landmark's recently launched GeoProbe(R) R5000 software empowers
geoscientists with an unprecedented ability to visualize large-scale regional
datasets at full resolution from a standard Linux(R) workstation," said
Nicholas Purday, manager of Geophysical Technologies at Landmark. "The NVIDIA
Quadro FX 5800 graphics card has a more powerful GPU and superior triangle
performance, which make it possible for the GeoProbe application to quickly
render large surfaces, and allow us to move many computing-intensive processes
to the graphics card, significantly enhancing the overall user experience."
Landmark is an industry leading software and technology services brand of
Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of products and services to
the energy industry.
"The advanced textured graphics capabilities of the Quadro FX 5800 are
enabling CyberHeart to provide 3D radiosurgical target visualization and
definition tools for the purpose of treating cardiac arrhythmias," said
Thilaka Sumanaweera, CTO, CyberHeart. "Our applications are processing very
large data sets acquired by the state-of-the-art 64-slice CT scanners using
respiratory- and cardiac-gating. The Quadro FX cards provide us with the
extreme bandwidth necessary to support our cutting-edge technology, and
essentially, save lives." CyberHeart, Inc., is a medical device company
developing a non-invasive radiosurgical system for cardiac applications.
The Quadro FX 5800 GPU features true 10-bit color enabling billions rather
than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the
broadest dynamic range. Professionals now benefit from viewing their models
with higher degrees of precision and realism never before possible.
"Our customers are making important decisions about future products on the
basis of RTT-powered 3D real-time models," said Ludwig Fuchs, cofounder and
CEO of RTT. "The new Quadro FX 5800 will be the platform of choice to bring
that arena to the next level. Higher levels of realism, physical correctness
and large models are now made possible through a double number of cores and a
generous frame buffer." Realtime Technology AG, is a leading supplier of real-
time visualization technology and virtual prototyping solutions to the
automotive, aerospace, industrial and consumer goods design industries.
Pricing and Availability
NVIDIA Quadro solutions are widely available through leading PC
manufacturers and workstation system integrators and NVIDIA channel partners
PNY Technologies (US and EMEA), Leadtek (APAC) and Elsa (Japan). The Quadro FX
5800 graphics board has an MSRP of $3499 USD. For more information about the
full lineup of NVIDIA professional solutions please visit
www.nvidia.com/quadro.
NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) the world leader in visual computing
technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which
generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal
computers, game consoles and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment
and consumer market with its GeForce(R) products, the professional design and
visualization market with its Quadro(R) products, and the high-performance
computing market with its Tesla(TM) products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa
Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For
more information, visit www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to,
statements as to: the benefits, impact, power and scalability of NVIDIA's
Quadro FX 5800 graphics cards; impact of NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5800 graphics
cards on the GeoProbe R5000 and CyberHeart; and the availability and pricing
of NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5800 graphics cards are forward-looking statements that
are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be
materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially include: development of more efficient or
faster technology; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of
technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and
demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's
products; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of
performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems as
well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files
with the Securities and Exchange Commission including our Form 10-Q for the
fiscal period ended July 27, 2008. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are
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