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Simon Blackledge
11-11-2008, 10:08 AM
C'mon Apple..! gimme a driver!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_fx_5800_us.html
Kholi Hicks
11-11-2008, 10:09 AM
Does the pipeline exist to take advantage of anything that damned thing has to offer? Seems like you would be fighting bottlenecks at every end.
Lexicon
11-11-2008, 03:29 PM
I think it's too early to tell but this could be another case of Nvidia using basic math product design to try and get ahead.
Thomas Mathai
11-12-2008, 08:52 PM
Does the pipeline exist to take advantage of anything that damned thing has to offer? Seems like you would be fighting bottlenecks at every end.
Not only does the pipeline exist, the people who could most use it are probably writing their own code for it.
GlennChan
11-13-2008, 06:46 AM
It's probably just the same chip as their gaming video card, but with some professional features slapped on (e.g. genlock) and different drivers (better openGL... for programs that use a lot of that).
2- So it looks like they're not even going to put SDI on this anymore???
Presumably you can go over the pciE bus to a SDI input/output card.
Stacey Spears
11-13-2008, 07:01 AM
The SDI has always been a daughter card. It has an internal ribbon cable and external DVI cable to connect the two cards together.
The driver that supports the 5800 mentions that genlock and SDI require a special version of the driver, which has not been released yet.
The current SDI driver for their cards is from January. They have a beta driver on their website from July.
Lucas Wilson
11-13-2008, 07:05 AM
...and we have an internal build of SCRATCH right now that feeds true 10-bit down the DisplayPort. The NVidia drivers are unreleased, and the SCRATCH build is unreleased, and the pipes for this particular feature are still not very stable, hence the *unreleased* and *internal* phrases.
But this means true 10-bit with a Dreamcolor. : )
Lucas
Stacey Spears
11-13-2008, 08:08 AM
Tease! :)
I am curious if the increased bandwidth of the 5800, over the 5600, makes a noticable difference in SCRATCH. The only time I really see a slowdown is during a dissolve. I am not going out to tape, so it does not matter, but trying to decide if I want to upgrade to the 5800 once its officially supported.
GlennChan
11-13-2008, 08:22 AM
The SDI has always been a daughter card. It has an internal ribbon cable and external DVI cable to connect the two cards together.
Ah, my mistake.