August 7th, 2006 NVIDIA unveils the Quadro Plex 1000, which retails at a whopping $18,000USD. Designed for professional use, this graphics card is capable of achieving “up to 64x full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA)†— “deliver a performance of up to 148 megapixels on 16 synchronized digital-output channels and eight HD SDI channels.†A lower-end model will also be available for $17,500 — available September, 2006. The firm says that the fill rate reaches 80 billion pixels/s while the geometry performance is rated at seven billion vertices/s.
[Via: TechEBlog]
