March 9, 2010
News
[March 9, 2010]
Dell frees 3D animators, engineers, and designers from their desks with a six-pound portable with potent Nvidia Quadro FX graphics, an available SSD boot drive, and instant-on Internet and virtual desktop access.
[December 1, 2009]
Quad-core processing, available 128-core graphics power, and a choice of 1066MHz, 1333MHz, or 1600MHz memory make the new flagship of Dell's Precision laptop line a designer's or researcher's dream machine.
[July 31, 2009]
[From Geek.com]
The focus of computing may have shifted from PCs to notebooks but some people still need power, sometimes seemingly ridiculous amounts of it
[November 5, 2008]
Workstation-class graphics at PC -- make that entry-level PC -- prices? Nvidia unveils an integrated-graphics chipset for under-$700 systems and a fanless PCI Express card for small-form-factor designs. Oh, yeah, and a 4GB, 240-processing-core graphics Godzilla for the most demanding, cost-no-object visualization applications.
[August 10, 2008]
The ATI FirePro label takes its place alongside AMD's venerable FireGL brand, with two new 3D graphics cards including an application-certified entry-level CAD upgrade priced under $100 and a $599 DisplayPort card with 320 shader units and more than 28GB/sec of memory bandwidth.
[June 19, 2008]
Still settling for gigaflops? The workstation market's twin graphics titans have introduced one-teraflop solutions in the form of a $999 PCI card for AMD and a $1,699 dual-slot PCI Express 2.0 board for Nvidia, with the latter packing four of the new GPUs -- yes, that's four teraflops -- into a $7,999 1U system as well.
[March 31, 2008]
While you're upgrading from the PCI Express 1.0 system interface to version 2.0, you might as well get ready for the DisplayPort successor to today's DVI monitor connector. ATI's new 512MB, 320-shader-unit graphics card is ready for both -- and for a billion colors with 10-bit display processing.
[February 21, 2008]
Dual- and quad-core CPUs are all very well, but visualization developers can really roll up their sleeves and get cracking with the 64 parallel processing cores of Nvidia's newest, Shader Model 4.0-compliant notebook workstation GPU.
[September 7, 2007]
A choice of Intel's blazing Core 2 Duo or, um, blazinger Core 2 Extreme processors teams with Nvidia discrete graphics to rev up what Dell calls its most powerful portable workstation to date.
[August 28, 2007]
AMD's graphics division (nee ATI) launches five workstation graphics cards ready for the latest Shader Model 4.0 applications -- and willing to free you from the job of tweaking software settings for them. Models range from an entry-level 256MB accelerator to a monster with a 512-bit interface to its 2GB of onboard DDR4.
