Comments on: NVIDIA Launches Adobe Quadro Card http://insidehpc.com/2008/10/20/nvidia-launches-adobe-quadro-card/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: John Leidel http://insidehpc.com/2008/10/20/nvidia-launches-adobe-quadro-card/#comment-107555 John Leidel Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:06:53 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2632#comment-107555 Great info Paul! Thanks for the comment. Great info Paul! Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: PaulAdams http://insidehpc.com/2008/10/20/nvidia-launches-adobe-quadro-card/#comment-107553 PaulAdams Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:08 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2632#comment-107553 Adobe CS4 also works with other graphics cards, including NVidia's rival AMD (formerly known as ATI). The Quadro CX card is nothing more than an older NVidia 260 (192 vertex shaders a.k.a. "CUDA Parallel Processor Cores") while the memory has been increased from 896 MB on the original 260 to 1.5 GB. The newer NVidia 260 has 216 vertex shaders. It would have been nice to see them use the newer chip. I see this as nothing more than a way to sell, to the unwary, more of the "older" 260 chips, or perhaps get increased yields on the "new" 260 chips. I would prefer to use the NVidia 280 which has 240 vertex shaders and 1 GB of memory, or one of the newer units NVidia is set to release in the next few weeks. Adobe CS4 also works with other graphics cards, including NVidia’s rival AMD (formerly known as ATI).

The Quadro CX card is nothing more than an older NVidia 260 (192 vertex shaders a.k.a. “CUDA Parallel Processor Cores”) while the memory has been increased from 896 MB on the original 260 to 1.5 GB. The newer NVidia 260 has 216 vertex shaders. It would have been nice to see them use the newer chip. I see this as nothing more than a way to sell, to the unwary, more of the “older” 260 chips, or perhaps get increased yields on the “new” 260 chips.

I would prefer to use the NVidia 280 which has 240 vertex shaders and 1 GB of memory, or one of the newer units NVidia is set to release in the next few weeks.

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