The New Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card 217
Dr. q00p writes "Since Apple doesn't offer much information on the new Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (and NVIDIA even less) which is required to drive the new 30-inch Cinema HD Display the readers of Slashdot might be interested to read a reply from Ujesh Desai, Nvidia's General Manager of Desktop GPUs, to a series of questions from Accelerate Your Mac."
Worthless read (Score:4, Insightful)
GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.
Absolut (tm) Garbage!! Here's another, this time with the question:
* Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?
GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves.
Talk about trash!! A simple NO would have sufficed. Looks like he's made the most of his Business-for-dummies Manual. Man, why am I so angry over this?
usually good, but ... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yet another example of "no news" being news
Re:That was interesting (Score:2, Insightful)
Mr Desai:
* We are the first chip with an onboard video processor
Interviewer's commentary:
(Note: Some previous ATI cards like their AIW models have shipped with the "Rage Theater" video encoder/decoder chip on the card. It was first intro'd in 1998, and revised I'm sure since then. Of course the current generation of GPUs have more advanced features.)
Now, how exactly is that comment relevant? Mr Desai claimed theirs was the first chip with an onboard video processor. Does the interviewer even understand the difference between a video card and its GPU?
Re:Wow, what useless responses... (Score:4, Insightful)
* Does the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL have a low-noise fan?
Yes, the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL runs very quiet.
I think this was the only question he was capable of answering.
If you meant... (Score:5, Insightful)
But if you actually meant ADC, or "Apple Display Connector", that is no longer used. With the new line of displays, Apple has (thankfully) gone back to standard DVI for the displays and for their future OEM video cards.
Re:Worthless read (Score:3, Insightful)
Probably because he gets paid much more for spouting bs than any of us do for real work....
Re:Annoying marketing regression (Score:2, Insightful)
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