Bij CG Channel kunnen we lezen dat nVidia door Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) is gekozen als leverancier van grafische chips voor SGI workstations. De Quadro2 MXR en Quadro2 Pro zullen worden gebruikt in de Silicon Graphics 230, 330 en 550 Visual Workstations. Door het toepassen van de chips van nVidia worden de kosten van een SGI Workstation aanzienlijk gedrukt. De 550 Visual Workstation zal verder worden uitgerust met een Pentium III Xeon.
The Silicon Graphics visual workstations incorporate a state-of-the-art Intel® architecture with SGITM visualization subsystems. The entry-level Silicon Graphics 230 comes with the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR solution that gives customers 400M pixels per second rendering power, 25M triangles per second geometry processing power, and 2.93GB per second memory bandwidth. For its midrange system, the scalable Silicon Graphics 330 workstation, SGI gives customers a choice of the NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR or Quadro2 Pro graphics solution. With unprecedented 3D and 2D performance for the engineering professional, Quadro2 Pro solutions deliver an unmatched 1.0G pixels per second rendering power and 31M triangles per second geometry processing power making it the optimal choice for the most demanding design environments. The Pentium® III XeonTM processor-based Silicon Graphics 550 visual workstations include the NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro to accommodate power users in the CAD, digital content creation, and scientific visualization markets.