Nvidia introduces new high-end chips
C|Net | at | by Mike
The release of the Quadro4 family of chips follows by two weeks Nvidia's release of the GeForce4 family of chips for desktop and laptop PCs. Peter Glaskowsky, analyst for Microdesign Resources, said the new Quadro chips are built on the same foundation as the GeForce4, with extra circuitry for rendering images at higher levels of precision.
"It's either exactly the same chip as in the high-end GeForce4 or very similar," he said. "The difference between the chips would be minimal. But the 5 or 10 percent extra logic you'd need for a professional graphics processor makes a big difference when you're dealing with sophisticated CAD (computer-aided design) operations."