NVIDIA 400 Series Graphics Cards

NVIDIA is really stepping up not only in their CUDA technology, but cards as well.

Check this out.

This is what I currently have:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800_gtx_us.html

And these are the two new cards that NVIDIA launched just last Friday:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_470_us.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_480_us.html

128 CUDA Cores VS 480.

512MB GDDR3 VS 1536MB GDDR5

Price point? Anywhere between $300 - 500 USD from what I've seen so far. Interested to see what the AUD price point will be.

Would love to do a full CUDA render test with these new cards. Looks absolutely amazing...

On a separate topic, currently working through BU4061... Not sure if I'm going to get much sleep tonight again.

3AM Ramble

Been getting some replies over at the NVIDIA forums regarding the glasses and maya.

Interesting reply from a user:

Since version 2009, Maya is really one of the best 3d tools to create stereoscopic movies.

Not only because it features stereoscopic cameras, but also eliminates some of the most common picture "failures" you are getting with 2 normal cameras (for advanced readers: maya is capable to use off-axis cameras with shifted sensors to create perfect matched stereoscopic pictures - with 2 normal cameras you would get frustum problems with trapezoid deformations).

The good thing is, you don't need a quadro card to use the stereo rig, but if you have one, you can see the viewport in "real" 3D if you use 2 projectors (polarization, infitec ...) or the acer one (if there WOULD be newer quadro 3d vision drivers which support the projector perfectly ).

For normal users it is enough to create a stereo rig, set the zero parallax plane, the interaxial separation and view the whole thing via the luminance anaglyph (red/cyan) option .


Good luck while trying it and don't forget to read the autodesk stereoscopic filmmaking whitepaper to understand the whole 3d functions:

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/ster...per_final08.pdf

and

http://www.motionmedia.com/downloads/pdf/M..._Whitepaper.pdf

Quote: MCX

I like this idea of using two projectors to see "real" 3D. It'd be a wonder on how to set it up though. And so, so glad that a quadro card is not required. All I need now is my 3D monitor and I can start playing around and developing. Hurray!

120Hz TVs and NVidia Forums

Been trawling through sites for information about 3D.

Glasses won't work with a 120Hz TV apparently: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2368&p_created=1233880927&p_sid=IDrlJFXj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_srch=1&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzUsNzUmcF9wcm9kcz0xMzImcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0xLjEzMiZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1

I decided to sign up an account over at the NVidia forums as well, seeing as I got the glasses now. Figured I should check out the information in the community that's available and see how it goes.

I threw up a post earlier to ask if anyone has actually experimented with the 3D glasses, monitor and maya and would like to know what results they got. So far, there's 3D support for "Gaming, Applications, Movies and Pictures". Depending on which way I develop my project it can either be put into a gaming engine that is supported by DirectX 10 or I can try and do it as a 3D Movie (example) and use the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Movie player.

Also, I'll need to address presenting methods...

Below is a list of the displays available with support: [http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/GeForce_3D_Vision_faq_uk.html]

3D Vision-Ready Displays

1920x1080 Desktop Displays

• ACER GD245HQ 120 Hz LCD display
• ACER GD235HZ 120 Hz LCD display
• Alienware OptX AW2310 120 Hz LCD display

1680x1050 Desktop Displays

• Samsung® SyncMaster 2233RZ 120 Hz LCD display
• ViewSonic® FuHzion™ VX2265wm 120 Hz LCD display
• ViewSonic FuHzion VX2268wm 120 Hz LCD display
• 100 Hz and higher analog CRTs

HDTVs

• Mitsubishi® 1080p DLP® Home Theater TV: WD-57833, WD-60735, WD-60737, WD-60C8, WD-60C9, WD-65735, WD-65736, WD-65737, WD-65C8, WD-65C9, WD-65833, WD-65835, WD-65837, WD-73735, WD-73736, WD-73737, WD-73833, WD-73835, WD-73837, WD-73C8, WD-73C9, WD-82737, WD-82837, L65-A90
• Mitsubishi 1080p LaserVue TV: L65-A90
• Generic DLP HDTV mode

Projectors

• Acer X1130P
• Acer X1261
• Acer H5360
• DepthQ® HD 3D Projector by LightSpeed Design, Inc.
• DQ-3120 by LightSpeed Design, Inc.
• ViewSonic PJD-6210-3D
• ViewSonic PJD-6220-3D
• ViewSonic PJD-PJD5351-3D
• ViewSonic PJD-PJD5111-3D

I remember Ian mentioning about the 3D Projectors, but I can't remember the model he was looking at. The monitor however I was looking at is the AlienWare AW2310 ... Acer, after my dangerously bad run of a dodgy laptop though, I try to avoid unless there is more then a year warranty available. (The laptop spent more time being repaired then in my possession, in the end everything bar the case and screen were replaced and it was found out that it was missing some heatsink or cooling device or whatever...)

Anywho, enough updates for me. Sleep time now.