NVIDIA releases a video card as big as your head! A new external video card that may be the foundation for the future...
The Quadro Plex 1000 is able to render 80 billion pixels per second and light up multiple monitors with a combined resolution of up to 148 million pixels!
And for the small fee of $17,500 it can be yours to take home and play Quake. Well, ok, that's a little costly right? This one still requires a PCI slot in order to function externally because USB 2.0 cannot push the bandwidth required to simulate an internal bus. And, yes, you run SLI (dual cards).
What is the lesson here? In the future, we may see something like this for a cost effective consumer market using a high-speed wiring (not USB 2.0). This would allow laptops to play games, and high end graphic processing operations without having to upgrade the core body of the laptop. Traditionally laptops make bad game systems because most of the components (video for example) is not upgradible easily or at all and high-end laptops run extremely hot.
This external case idea means that we can cool that bad boy much easier and upgrade the video card without touching the internals of your PC. After all, CPU speeds are so fast today that the biggest road block to gaming becomes the GPU and abilities of our graphics hardware.
Can you imagine, in ten years we may have liquid cooled external video cards running on huge high resolution graphic display(s) - yes, plural displays.
Thanks to TANK for finding this cool information
The Quadro Plex 1000 is able to render 80 billion pixels per second and light up multiple monitors with a combined resolution of up to 148 million pixels!
And for the small fee of $17,500 it can be yours to take home and play Quake. Well, ok, that's a little costly right? This one still requires a PCI slot in order to function externally because USB 2.0 cannot push the bandwidth required to simulate an internal bus. And, yes, you run SLI (dual cards).
What is the lesson here? In the future, we may see something like this for a cost effective consumer market using a high-speed wiring (not USB 2.0). This would allow laptops to play games, and high end graphic processing operations without having to upgrade the core body of the laptop. Traditionally laptops make bad game systems because most of the components (video for example) is not upgradible easily or at all and high-end laptops run extremely hot.
This external case idea means that we can cool that bad boy much easier and upgrade the video card without touching the internals of your PC. After all, CPU speeds are so fast today that the biggest road block to gaming becomes the GPU and abilities of our graphics hardware.
Can you imagine, in ten years we may have liquid cooled external video cards running on huge high resolution graphic display(s) - yes, plural displays.
Thanks to TANK for finding this cool information
