NVIDIA Quadro FX Preview

[MaDSheeP]

my god!

those cards look friggin awesome!

and sound pretty damn cool too =)

i think i will look into getting the 1000 FX

i'm not sure about a daughter card and everything for the 2000 FX...

think it will play games really well too? i do play games once in a while also :)

[MaDSheeP]

oh yeah, i have only heared the feature mentioned for the 2000FX, but... what is GenLock and FrameLock?

just curius if anyone knows what the mumbo jumbo means yet =)

[samartin]

could genlock be something 2 do with mixing video footage with graphics ??? There used 2 b a box 4 the amiga which allowed this 2 happen...

[MaDSheeP]

and the only price they mentioned was for the 980XGL...

i couldn't for the life of me find a price point for 1000 and 2000,
if anyone stumbles on it, post it please :)

[LeeTN]

MaDSheeP,

Published prices $1,300 for the Quadro FX 1000 and $2,000 for the Quadro FX 2000.

Might see slight discounts, but I doubt you will find them much below these prices for quite awhile.

[Gentle Fury]

NVIDIA’s success with these workstation cards will rely largely on it’s effectiveness in the DCC market, where it will be most used in OpenGL and DirectX development. In order to ensure it’s success, NVIDIA has worked hard to get their own cross API compiler into the major DCC applications…and they’ve succeeded. Accompanying NVIDIA’s press launch today, is the announcement that the big three of DCC apps, Maya, Softimage XSI, and discreet have integrated NVIDIA’s Cg right into their applications, such that direct Cg encoding and compilation can be done in real time.

thats the most important part though right there :) we are getting SO close to real time rendering that could fit a production pipeline!!!

specs look pretty damn sweet!!!!

cant WAIT to get my paws on onea these

[mustique]

Looks impressive.

There are things I want to ask though, to tech people on this forum.

1) First how important is OpenGL 2.0 capability today?
Cause as I searched for the latest ATI workstation card I noticed that they're supporting openGL 2.0.

2) Also is it true that nVidia hasn't solved all problems regarding DirectX9.0?

3) But the most important question perhaps is can you make use of these capabilities as of today. I mean the apps would need a tremendous rewrite on the renderer side, wouldn't they?
So do we really need that horsepower as animators right now?

4) What about the bottlenecks of todays system parts of a PC, that wouldn't let unleash the power of these cards to their full?

Maybe unnecessary inquiring here, but just a few things that would bother me when making a purchase like this...

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