nVidia's $3,500 Video Card is a Beast!

Binge Gamer writes: "I am a huge PC gamer. I don't necessarily have the most powerful rig to run the latest and greatest games with all the bells and whistles turned on, but it serves me just fine. However, there are some of you who will stop at nothing to have the ultimate gaming PC. For those people I present to you…

..the nVidia Quadro FX 5800."

[RememberThe357]

It better be a beast!

[Ghoul]

It's a CGI card, you wont even get to play games since its drivers are not gaming conform.

Go ahead shell out 3.5k for a render card. nexttime learn something before you make a claim. buy a 4570 or gt260.

[SaiyanFury]

This is a card that is meant for CGI modeling and rendering. Not an average video card that a typical PC gamer would buy. ATi also has a similar card that costs a huge amount. If you're rendering wireframe and other high end graphical applications then I'm sure this one is fine. As an average PC gamer I have a 9800GTX clocked the same as a GTX+, and I'm happy with it. Only CG rendering cards are this expensive.

[JsonHenry]

Thank God someone else knows what the Quadro line is besides me. Before all of the console only kids started complaining about PC gaming prices (because their HDTVs were so cheap, right?) and let them know this is NOT a gaming card. This is heavily CAD/CGI workstation stuff here. Not for gaming.

[mabreu]

Bingegamer are a bunch of kids that think a video card that cost $3,500 means that it will blow Crysis out of the water.

Bunch of noobs.

[Tempist]

Since the Quadro FX 5800 is based on the G200 chips, it technically does kick around crysis a little. The G200s do handle Crysis just fine with moderate tweaking. Hell my stock PC with a 260 didn't get any low frame rates.

[DoctorBonzai]

It's just a joke article.

[himdeel]

...but can you imagine how good those graphics should or would look if there was such a thing as a $3500 video card. The following is what I'd expect...

[SketchCA]

At that price it should make its own d@mn games! That is fVckin crazy! And they wonder why people prefer consoles!

[labwarrior]

What good is updrading, when for 199$ you can play the best games on a xbox 360 ?

[bumnut]

thats funny

[Xwow2008]

ps3 and high end PCs are the beasts.

[Bolts]

What good is the Xbox when it's best games play best on the PC?

[thereapersson]

That is the best response to someone like this. Bubbles for you.

[Foxgod]

Right...... A PS3 cant even be compared to a high end pc.
An I7 with 6 ~ 12 GB DDR3 and a GF 280 XT completely destroys any console out there.

Otherwise everyone would have pc's with cells in them now.

[DoctorBonzai]

It also completely destroys my wallet. ;)

[nycredude]

This article is joking about the price of a video card. Damn no one has a sense of humor here.

@Foxgod
And how much does that pc runs you $5,000 to $10,000?? Can it run Killzone 2, God of War 3, Uncharted 2?? Hmmm.

[souljah]

best games ? r u on crack ?

[The Matrix]

You can buy an alienware for that much.

[dexterwang]

FYI- quadro line is specially designed for 3D-rendering, which can often take up the whole day, therefore its not the fastest gaming card, just simply the fastest frame by frame 3D rendering card.

[y0haN]

Quadro is designed for accuracy over speed, but it's still quite fast. Get yourself a cheap 8800GT or HD 4850 if you want a cheap, good card.

[griff2]

Actually, and this is my opinion, the PS3 is built to blade standard (some Linux vendors are actually selling PS3 clusters) well above any so called "high end" winbox.

[LoneGun]

Quadros cards are based on existing Nvidia video cards. The differences are its drivers and some minor hardware differences that makes it support OpenGL and other 3D rendering software. This card will actually run slower in many games than the same graphic card that it's based on. So forget it, this card is not for gaming.

[theEnemy]

The Quadro FX cards are design to target the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Digital Content Creation (DCC) audience. CAD and DCC applications do not require the insane ‘fill rate’ capabilities of the GeForce line of graphics cards, targeted at consume video games. The Quadro’s cater to true color reproduction, extremely high resolution imaging and rendering, extreme floating point calculations, the list goes on. All the features most required in industries where precision rather than speed is of the highest importance.

With that being said – NO, this card will not play Crysis or Far Cry 2 any better than what you currently have, it will actually play it worse.

[Bolts]

Agree. This article is dumb as hell.

[Xwow2008]

it,s 550$ and it,s a beast :)
an idiot who is gonna buy 3500$ graphic card 2 play games.

@the enemy u are absloutly right.

[Ghoul]

every current gen geforce outperformes the quadrofx.

this is a RENDER card not a gaming card, if you really are that stupid to shell out 3.5k for a cgi card hoping for the ultimate gaming card you sir FAIL!

[labwarrior]

Xwow2008

[mariusmal]

and someone never had diablo or any great pc game.

[SmokedOut]

For $3,500 it should be gold plated, thats very pricey.......

[hfaze]

Keep in mind that this is a professional grade OpenGL accelerator card. If you are doing CAD or 3D Modeling work, then this thing is great.

The article is completely mis-leading for even pretending that this card is good for gaming.

If you are building a SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Softimage or Maya workstation, and you have a BIG budget, then this is your card.

If you want to play Crysis, you're better off with a GeForce or Radeon rather than a Quadro or FireGL.

My Dell Latitude has a nVidia Quadro FX Mobile chipset in it, and my Acer Aspire has an ATI Radeon Mobility chipset. The Acer SMOKES my Dell in everything BUT Photoshop and Maya Personal Edition. Compiz-Fusion runs SOOOOO much smoother on the Acer due to the consumer/gamer grade video card as compared to the Dell with the Quadro chipset.

[Marceles]

Workstation card? zzzz...

[xg-ei8ht]

himdeel is that pic from killzone2:)

[Viatrophy]

The rig that Foxgod is speaking of would set you back around $1.5k-2k (tops) and a rig like that would last you years, and still destroy every game known to man for the next few years too.
His rig would obliterate Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2.. You cleaarly have not seen Crysis: Warhead on very high specs with full AA on.

[ProjectArsenal]

And people complain that the PS3 is expensive.

[Viatrophy]

Your actually an idiot.
There is QUITE a bit of difference between a PC and a PS3.
For a start, a PC costing that much would obliterate EVERY game that was released on the PS3 for the next 5 years.
Then there is all the other stuff which a PC can do. What can a PS3 do what a PC can do? Browse the internet? Fantastic... /sarcasm.