Na optimalisaties voor de Intel Pentium 4, heeft nVidia nu ook diverse optimalisaties voor Intel's 64-bits Itanium processor aan haar Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) toegevoegd, ten gunste van haar Quadro2 GPU's. Deze GPU wordt exclusief toegepast en op de markt gebracht door Elsa middels de Gloria III videokaart, die bedoeld is voor professionele 2&3D-applicaties. De optimalisaties richten zich op Itanium's 64-bits adressing, floating-point performance en Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) features, aldus nVidia:
Quadro2 graphics solutions feature NVIDIA's unified driver architecture (UDA), which allows forward-and-backward as well as top-to-bottom compatibility, greatly reducing support costs by simplifying system maintenance. With UDA technology, NVIDIA’s optimizations for the Intel Itanium processor also benefit NVIDIA’s popular Quadro family of workstation solutions. UDA is found only in NVIDIA technologies. The Quadro2’s power is unleashed by NVIDIA’s series of custom application drivers featuring key enhancements vital to graphics professionals, including the ELSA® MAXtreme™ driver for 3ds max™, the ELSA POWERdraft™ driver for AutoCAD™ and the QuadroView™ driver for professional MCAD 3D visualization. Quadro2 solutions provide a single "develop and deploy" platform for workstation professionals, ensuring content developed using a Quadro2 solution will also run on other popular consumer graphics solutions utilizing NVIDIA chipsets.
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Het wachten voor de CGI- en CAD-professionals is ondertussen nog steeds op nVidia's (reeds aangekondigde) Quadro DCC GPU, het professionele broertje van de GeForce3, die op de a.s. Elsa Gloria DCC terug te vinden zal zijn.
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