Professional graphics cards constitute a separate world by themselves. This is not only true for the price but also for the level of performance achieved by the latest and greatest cards out there. In the case of nVidia, there is an additional bonus play to be had, the Quadro's work in SLI configuration. We have a somewhat sporadic data base of professional cards that we tested over the last 3 years and that is by no means representative of everything that has been available. However, as the GPUs have evolved, so have the professional graphics applications and the demands on the graphics adapters. And once again, we are trying to put it all into perspective and answer all questions -- we'll see about the latter part, especially with respect to platforms, SLI width and operating systems.

And as usual, there were bugs, pulled out hair, carpal tunnel sydrom from wiggling the mouse in order to keep the performance up --- we are not kidding about that one. But wait, there is more ....