The biblical hero Samson was known for his unprecedented  strength and so too was the Nvidia Quadro FX5600.  Now along comes its successor, the Quadro FX5800, an even bigger beast climbing in with a mighty 4GBS of DDR3 memory, and huge 102GB/s memory bandwidth.   The PNY Quadro FX5800 offers up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores but we are still unsure how much memory has been solely allocated from the 4GB as a pure frame buffer.

The card also comes complete with time lapse capable, interactive 4D modelling, and geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.  Therefore the PNY Quadro FX 5800’s precision is a perfect fit for the lucrative markets like medical imaging, military flight simulation, oil and gas exploration and other intense CAD and DCC work.

Now what cannot be seen is the power connectors.  The card can run from only 1 X 8 pin PCI Express power source, and so there's  no need for a 6 and 8 plug etc etc.  End users who have older power supplies that only came prefitted with 2 X 6 pin PCI Express power plugs - you are in luck,  as hidden away beneath a shiny piece of aluminium is the power points.  A point to note here, you cannot use both 6 and 8 pin adaptors or "pop/bang" goes your $3. 499 professional graphics card.   The PNY Quadro's quoted maximum power consumption is  189 Watts, supporting dual link DVI, DisplayPort and stereo connector.

PNY's version of the Quadro FX 5800 card also supports next-generation OpenGL and DirectX 10 apps as well as advanced multi-system and multi-device visualisation on Quadro G-Sync II.   It fully supports true 10-bit colour which means this is a perfect fit for the HP DreamColor LP2480zx, though your bill has just shot up by another $3,000 - $4000 dollars.  But what the heck, buying something  this expensive means you need nothing but the best for it - Please Mr HP can I have one to test all this stuff together? Thank you.

As for benchmarks, you are going to have to wait until next week for that, as there is only one available just now and we *have been promised it for early next week* so watch this cyber space for more detailed information.   We cannot give exact dates for shipping as we have not got these yet but we have been promised those within days. X