SANTA CLARA, CA. - OCTOBER 24, 2005—NVIDIA
Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable
graphics processor technologies, today announced that its most advanced
professional graphics solution, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics
processing unit (GPU), is now available as an option in the new Apple
Power Mac G5. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics card drives up to two
high resolution 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays and accelerates
applications used in industries such as digital content creation,
scientific research, and 3D visualization.
"The Power Mac is one of the premiere platforms for those looking to
design, develop and create some of the most eye-catching graphics and
video," said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at
NVIDIA. "In rolling out this advanced professional graphics board for
the Power Mac G5, NVIDIA and Apple are bringing the most powerful
NVIDIA workstation solution to an entirely new customer base."
"The Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made,"
said David Moody, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Mac Product
Marketing. "The combination of quad-core processing and the fastest
workstation class NVIDIA Quadro graphics gives our creative and
scientific customers unprecedented performance."
NVIDIA Quadro solutions, certified for the leading computer aided
design, video, content creation and scientific visualizations
applications, are widely considered by industry professionals as the
benchmark for performance and quality.
Alias Maya, an integrated modeling, animation, visual effects, and
rendering solution widely used in the film, video, game development,
and design markets, is the first application to be fully certified for
use on the Power Mac G5 with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500. "Alias and
NVIDIA work closely together to enable our software and hardware
products to compliment each other, enabling our customers to realize
increased productivity in their work," said Kevin Tureski, director of
engineering for Maya at Alias. "Maya is a very demanding application
with very demanding users. We were very pleased to be able to fully
qualify the Power Mac G5 with the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 on the same day
it was announced. This is an ideal platform for content creation
and editing."
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 GPU offers a number of features Power Mac
G5 users have been looking for in a workstation-class platform. IEEE
32-bit floating point color precision and 512MB of dedicated graphics
memory deliver exceptional image quality without compromising on
performance. System bottlenecks are further eliminated using the latest
PCI Express bus interface, which can transfer over 4GB data per second,
and hardware accelerated pixel readback performance of more than 2.0GB
per second. Output capabilities include support for two high resolution
(dual-link) Apple Cinema HD Displays, and a feature new to Power Mac G5
users, quad buffered OpenGL stereo viewing capability for professional
applications.
In addition to the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 GPU, targeted primarily at
professional application users, Apple is offering Power Mac G5
customers the advanced NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT graphics card, designed
to deliver blazing frame rates and outstanding image quality for a
broad range of consumer applications. Standard Power Mac graphics
options are based on the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU. More
information on NVIDIA graphics cards can be found at www.nvidia.com. Please visit Apple's web site for more information on the new Power Mac G5 at www.apple.com.
News Source: nVIDIA Press Release
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