Friday, March 11, 2011

HP crams Fermi-based Quadro 5000M GPU inside 17-inch EliteBook


Gotta live up to the name, rightHP?NVIDIA's new pro graphics solution for mobile creatives, theQuadro 5000M, was unsheathed only yesterday but HP appears to have been first in line to get some of that new 40nm goodness. Electronista reports that the world leader in PC shipments is readying a 5000M solution for its 8740w EliteBook, which will bring 320 CUDA cores and a jumbo 2GBof dedicated memory to the party. That comes replete with the latestDirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 compatibility, naturally, as well as a bunch of pro-friendly computational enhancements. Dell's also going to be offering a 5000M-equipped rig, but lest you get too excited, bear in mind that getting the current best Quadro-equipped 17-incher fromHP costs north of $3,000, so affordability is clearly not a priority here. Skip past the break for NVIDIA's joyous press release announcing the new Quadro chips.

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