NV brings Quadro FX 4800 to the Mac

NVIDIA ANNOUNCED it is bringing its Quadro FX 4800 high-end graphics card to the Mac Pro platform.

The card sports 1.5GB of graphics memory and boasts memory bandwidth of up to 76.8 GB/sec. It has two Dual-Link DVI connectors, for big displays, and a a three-pin mini-DIN connector for you to plug in stereoscopic glasses, shoudl you feel the need.

And, if you don't have any nice pictures to look at or games to play, you can always use the card to work out your shopping bill, as it supports Nvidia's Cuda parallel processing jiggery-pokery.

Users wanting use Windows apps on their Macs can use the card with Boot Camp, or buy a proper PC.

Nvidia said the Quadro FX 4800 for Mac arrives in May at a cost of $1800.