maximum VRAM for G80 ...? Quadro FX 5600 has 1.5 gigabyte !

Hi, I’m always interested in what the future might bring. Yesterday the newest high end Quadros where presented and I was pleased to hear that the big iron QuadroFX 5600 has 1.5 GB VRAM. I think it’s important for many CUDA applications to get enough mem space on the device (and may have some left for 3D graphics External Image ).

So CUDA programming guide was wrong, when it said (in the tech specs chapter) that G80 is limited to 1GB. Or do they use bank switching ;)

BTW: yesterday’s internet presentation gave me a weird feeling: it was like listening to longwave AM radio while looking at Powerpoint slides. Never knew who is talking. I tried to ask some (nasty) questions about CUDA per text terminal but all I got was some “RTFM or ask at the forums!”. I already read the manual so I keep on asking here at the CUDA forums B)

At the time that the programming guide was written & released, 1GB was the largest commercially available VRAM for a G80 based card.