Quadro CX

The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving creative professionals the performance, tools, and reliability they need to maximize their creativity.

Creativity is not just your passion, it’s your business. You are always under pressure to deliver more amazing content while working under tight deadlines. Now you can. The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving you the ability to create rich, stunning content in a faster, smoother, and more interactive way.

A Better Way to Work Your tools are key to your success. Experience fluid interaction with the Adobe Photoshop® canvas for smoother zooming and image rotation. Accurately see what your deliverable will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output**. Easily work across multiple displays with NVIDIA® nView® advanced management tools for a smoother production pipeline***.

A More Reliable Way to Work You can’t afford system downtime. Quadro CX is engineered and optimized by NVIDIA to deliver exceptional performance when you need it. Quadro CX is also designed and optimized for Creative Suite 4. Plus, additional free plug-ins will deliver ongoing feature and performance improvements to protect your investment.

KEY FEATURES:

• The Accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite®4
  The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving creative professionals the performance, tools, and reliability they need to maximize their creativity. Enables H.264 video encoding at lightning-fast speeds with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology and accelerates rendering time for advanced effects.
  
  
• 1.5 GB GDDR3 GPU Memory with Ultra-fast Memory Bandwidth
  Massive 1.5GB frame buffer and memory bandwidth up to 76.8 GB/sec. delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and high-performance for real time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing (FSAA).
  
  
• NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor
  A parallel computing processor architecture exposed through a C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization, CUDA unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing, video encoding, and interactive volume rendering.
  
  
• Highest Color Fidelity
  10-bit per component color fidelity enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.
  
  
• Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
  Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
  
  
• Single Dual-Link Digital Display Connector
  Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @24Hz) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
  
  
• Quad Buffered Stereo
  Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications that demand stereo viewing capability.
  
  
• NVIDIA® SLI® Technology
  A revolutionary platform innovation that enables professional users to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, and expand display real estate.
  
  
• 8K Texture and Render Processing
  The ability to texture from and render to 8K x 8K surfaces for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.
  
  
• Fast 3D Texture Transfer
  Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset.
  
  
• 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
  Enables sophisticated mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.
  
  
• 64-Bit Floating Point Precision
  Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 64-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  
  
• Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
  Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
  
  
• Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
  Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language for OpenGL that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. Quadro programmable graphics pipelines leverage high-level shading languages to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes, and designs.
  
  
• Essential for Microsoft Windows Vista
  Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Windows Vista™ experience.
  
  
• Frame Synchronization
  Allows the display channels from multiple workstations to be synchronized, thus creating one large "virtual display" that can be driven by a multisystem cluster for performance scalability.
  
  
• Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
  Up to 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies”, resulting in highly realistic scenes.
  
  
• External Synchronization
  Also known as "house sync," External Synchronization allows the graphics output to synchronize to an external source, typically for film and broadcast video applications.
  
  
• NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions
  NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities.
  
  
• Hardware 3D Window Clipping
  Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) which improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.
  
  
• Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
  Up to 2.4GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput.
  
  
• Highest Workstation Application Performance
  Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry’s highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
  
  
• High-Performance Display Outputs
  400MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market.
  
  
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0
  Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications.
  
  
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability
  Infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs delivering sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.
  
  
• NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
  Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  
  
• NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
  NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology is the combination of high-definition video processors and software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for SD and HD video content. Features include, high-quality scaling, spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and high quality HD video playback from DVD.
  
  
• NVIDIA Unified Architecture
  Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
  
  
• NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology
  The NVIDIA® nView® hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are designed to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing.

Supported only on Windows XP

• PCI Express Certified
  PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
  
  
• Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
  The rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, reducing “jaggies” while maintaining performance.
  
  
• Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
  Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
  
  
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
  The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.
  
  
• PCI Express 2.0 Compliant
  Doubles the data transfer rate up to 5 GT/sec per lane for an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8 GB/sec in each direction).
  

SPECIFICATIONS:

Creativity is not just your passion, it’s your business. You are always under pressure to deliver more amazing content while working under tight deadlines. Now you can. The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving you the ability to create rich, stunning content in a faster, smoother, and more interactive way.

*Exclusive CUDA-based RapiHD Accelerator is developed by Elemental Technologies and only included with Quadro CX.

**Quadro CX hardware is capable of native 30-bit color DisplayPort output; SDI capability via optional Quadro SDI board and application plug-ins.

***Supported only on Windows XP

• The Accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite®4
  The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving creative professionals the performance, tools, and reliability they need to maximize their creativity. Enables H.264 video encoding at lightning-fast speeds with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology and accelerates rendering time for advanced effects.
  
  
• 1.5 GB GDDR3 GPU Memory with Ultra-fast Memory Bandwidth
  Massive 1.5GB frame buffer and memory bandwidth up to 76.8 GB/sec. delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and high-performance for real time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing (FSAA).
  
  
• NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor
  A parallel computing processor architecture exposed through a C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization, CUDA unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing, video encoding, and interactive volume rendering.
  
  
• Highest Color Fidelity
  10-bit per component color fidelity enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.
  
  
• Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
  Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
  
  
• Single Dual-Link Digital Display Connector
  Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @24Hz) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
  
  
• Quad Buffered Stereo
  Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications that demand stereo viewing capability.
  
  
• NVIDIA® SLI® Technology
  A revolutionary platform innovation that enables professional users to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, and expand display real estate.
  
  
• 8K Texture and Render Processing
  The ability to texture from and render to 8K x 8K surfaces for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.
  
  
• Fast 3D Texture Transfer
  Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset.
  
  
• 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
  Enables sophisticated mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.
  
  
• 64-Bit Floating Point Precision
  Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 64-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  
  
• Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
  Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
  
  
• Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
  Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language for OpenGL that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. Quadro programmable graphics pipelines leverage high-level shading languages to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes, and designs.
  
  
• Essential for Microsoft Windows Vista
  Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Windows Vista™ experience.
  
  
• Frame Synchronization
  Allows the display channels from multiple workstations to be synchronized, thus creating one large "virtual display" that can be driven by a multisystem cluster for performance scalability.
  
  
• Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
  Up to 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies”, resulting in highly realistic scenes.
  
  
• External Synchronization
  Also known as "house sync," External Synchronization allows the graphics output to synchronize to an external source, typically for film and broadcast video applications.
  
  
• NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions
  NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities.
  
  
• Hardware 3D Window Clipping
  Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) which improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.
  
  
• Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
  Up to 2.4GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput.
  
  
• Highest Workstation Application Performance
  Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry’s highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
  
  
• High-Performance Display Outputs
  400MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market.
  
  
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0
  Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications.
  
  
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability
  Infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs delivering sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.
  
  
• NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
  Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  
  
• NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
  NVIDIA® PureVideo™ technology is the combination of high-definition video processors and software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for SD and HD video content. Features include, high-quality scaling, spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and high quality HD video playback from DVD.
  
  
• NVIDIA Unified Architecture
  Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
  
  
• NVIDIA nView Multi-Display Technology
  The NVIDIA® nView® hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are designed to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing.

Supported only on Windows XP

• PCI Express Certified
  PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
  
  
• Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
  The rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, reducing “jaggies” while maintaining performance.
  
  
• Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
  Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
  
  
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
  The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.
  
  
• PCI Express 2.0 Compliant
  Doubles the data transfer rate up to 5 GT/sec per lane for an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8 GB/sec in each direction).
  

NVIDIA Quadro CX Accelerates Adobe CS4 Up to 11.
Along with their 9600M GT card for portables announcement with the MacBook Pro, NVIDIA has also announced their new NVIDIA Quadro CX. The $1,999 PCIe card, which according to them has been "specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite 4", will accelerate all most common operations in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and H.264 encoding.

Layers Blog Winner | NVIDIA Brings It | Fireworks to Flash Tutorial
So.. a lot of what you are hearing about CS4 is how many of the applications are taking advantage of the GPU. It definitely says something more when the software happens to be running on their cards. Take a look at the NVIDIA website for a very good overview on how their technology is going to let you really open up the CS4 experience. A very exciting week for them indeed.. Congrats! Let me know where I can send you this laptop for a trade in.

NVIDIA Quadro CX for Quicker Adobe Software
NVIDIA, a leading player in visual computing technologies, is offering its new accelerator NVIDIA Quadro CX for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software. The new GPU aims to provide a faster computing option to developers. Quadro CX is designed to deliver better performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. It’s now available from leading resellers and retailers, for $1,999.

NVIDIA launches graphics accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4
The Quadro CX graphics accelerator plugs into the PCI slot of your PC, and will significantly improve the performance of CS4. The new hardware will increase rendering time, which is used in the advanced effects, this will then allow you to accurately preview what a video will look like with 0-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output.

NVIDIA Intros Quadro CX
After announcing its latest motherboard GPU, the green company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA, introduced just recently its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the new Quadro CX. According to the company, the new GPU has been designed to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4.

A graphics card just for Photoshop
Both NVIDIA and AMD are waiting for compelling GPGPU applications, software than takes advantage of their GPU architectures to achieve visible levels of acceleration through multi-threading. Photoshop and Premiere are the first widely used non-industrial and non-scientific applications that integrate such capability and we recently confirmed that graphics cards in fact do provide impressive performance improvements in Photoshop CS4. So it is not really surprising that NVIDIA follows up with a dedicated product to support these claims. The company just announced the Quadro CX, a workstation-class graphics card that promises “the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4.”

NVIDIA Quadro CX accelerates Adobe Photoshop CS4
NVIDIA has unveiled a new workstation graphics card that's designed to accelerate Adobe Creative Suite 4. The new NVIDIA Quadro CX enables real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to the view instantaneous and smooth. The GPU is also used for several effects, such as 3D movement, HDR tone mapping, and color conversion. The card features 192 cores, 384-bit memory interface, 1.5GB GDDR3 memory, memory bandwidth of 76.8GB/s and a max. power consumption of 150W.

NVIDIA Quadro CX boosts Adobe CS4
Following closely on the heels of Adobe's Creative Suite 4 release, NVIDIA on Thursday unveiled the Quadro CX, offering users an optimized GPU for the new software suite's explicit use of the graphics hardware. The Quadro CX is designed to help produce visual effects within Adobe Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4, and several other of the suite's applications. NVIDIA claims the card offers users a "dramatically fast and fluid experience."

NVIDIA's Quadro CX GPU optimized for people who don't suck at Photoshop
Check it Donnie, NVIDIA just launched its Quadro CX accelerator card for Adobe's Creative Suite 4. The optimized GPU fits into your PC's PCIe slot to smooth image navigation and manipulation in Photoshop while accelerating effects in Adobe's After Effects and Premier Pro. NVIDIA claims that the new GPU helps encode H.264 video at "lightning-fast speeds" when using NVIDIA's Cuda-enabled CS4 plug-in while giving professionals accurate video previews with uncompressed 30-bit color or 10-/12-bit SDI (for professional video equipment) before final output. The Quadro CX features a 1.5GB (GDDR3) frame buffer and 76.8GBps memory bandwidth with dual-DisplayPort connectors (up to 2560 x 1600 pixels) and a single dual-link DVI with support for panels up to 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz. Look, we know this sounds all stupid-hard advanced to those of you using Photoshop to hotten-up your Facebook pic, but the pros are going to love it. $1,999 and available today -- video demonstration just beyond the read link

NVIDIA Quadro CX
NVIDIA announced it’s anticipated Quadro CX card today. The Quadro CX is designed to work with Adobe Creative Suite, accelerating its overall performance. You’re going to see a major real-time performance boost with this puppy, especially when jumping to 1.5GB of GDDR3. The card retails at about $2000 and drivers are currently only available for Windows, hopefully Mac isn’t far behind.

NVIDIA does graphics card for Adobe
NVIDIA is sticking with its GP-GPU program and its latest addition to its range of professional graphics cards is the Quadro CX which offers GPU acceleration for the Adobe's new Creative Suite 4. The Quadro CX seems to be using a Geforce GTX 260 GPU, as it has 192 CUDA parallel processors cores as NVIDIA likes to call the Shaders in this instance.

New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream
NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the NVIDIA Quadro CX. The Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you have $2,000 you can take your Photoshop experience to completely new level.

NVIDIA UNVEILS GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR FOR ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
NVIDIA on Thursday launched a graphics accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4, giving professionals the option of higher performance when adding graphics and visual effects to video. The release of Quadro CX comes a day after NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 9400M, a graphics processor for notebooks. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs this week praised the performance of the GPU in announcing that it would be in Apple's new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air. The announcement was a big win for NVIDIA, whose product was chosen over Intel's integrated graphics chipset. *********** Apple's decision to choose NVIDIA over Intel reflects the heated competition among chipmakers in the growing use of graphics in PCs. The third major competitor in the market is Advanced Micro Devices' ATI division.

NVIDIA Quadro CX launched for Adobe Creative Suite users
Adobe has just launched their latest product suite Adobe Creative Suite 4. NVIDIA has now announced the launch of their Quadro CX graphics accelerator which is aimed at the users of this application suite. NVIDIA said that this hardware add-on would enable the professionals to get improved performance from the Adobe’s Creative Suite.

NVIDIA Quadro CX: Adobe CS4-specific GPU
Heavy users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 will know that the only thing worse than a hangover for slowing the design process is a computer unable to keep up. CS4 feasts on processor cycles like supermodels crave bacon; thankfully here’s NVIDIA to the rescue with their Quadro CX, a PCI-E card dedicated to giving the graphics software all the grunt it needs.

SlipperyBrick
The GPU has come of age and is no longer something that titillates hoards of gamers with promises of better video game graphics alone. Today the GPU can do many things from being used as a super computing platform to greatly accelerating many applications more efficiently than a CPU can. One of the biggest new features in Adobe Creative Suite 4 introduced not so long ago was the ability for the software to take advantage of the power of the GPU for faster processing and applying of things like filters. NVIDIA has announced a new GPU-based product called the Quadro CX that is designed specifically to accelerate Creative Suite 4.

NVIDIA Releases Quadro CX GPU - Optimized for Creative Suite 4
Well, for more proof that NVIDIA is taking things seriously, they've launched a new Quadro model that's touted as being the "ultimate" GPU for use with CS4. Compared to the desktop GPUs, the Quadro CX seems most comparable to the GTX 260, with 192 processors, but that's where the similarities end. The new card features 1.5GB of GDDR3 with a 384-bit memory bus (the GTX 260/280 have 448-bit), as well as a smaller TDP of 150W.

NVIDIA introduces graphics accelerator for Creative Suite
NVIDIA (Nasdaq:NVDA), a specialist in visual computing technologies, today (16 October) introduced the NVIDIA Quadro CX GPU, which is designed to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimised features of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4).

Adobe Creative Suite Users Get NVIDIA Present
Does that sound like a lot of horsepower for Photoshop and Premiere Pro? There’s never too much power when manipulating hi-res artwork and video. “A critical element of CS4 was to capture the enormous power of the GPU,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “The difference is astounding. Performance is important to creative professionals and with the NVIDIA GPU, they are assured to be able to interact with images and videos in a much faster, smoother, more engaging way.”

NVIDIA Releases Quadro CX for CS4 Acceleration
NVIDIA has just released it’s new Quadro CX graphics card. It’s been designed in conjunction with Adobe to specifically accelerate certain features of the recently announced CS4 suite. I attended an online demo yesterday and the technology involved looked very impressive.