NVIDIA Quadro Technical Specifications

NVIDIA Quadro Workstation GPU High-resolution Antialiasing ° Dassault CATIA • Full 128-bit floating point precision • Up to 16x full-scene antialiasing (FSAA), ° ESRI ArcGIS pipeline at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 ° ICEM Surf • 12-bit subpixel precision • 12-bit subpixel sampling precision ° MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran • Hardware-accelerated antialiased enhances AA quality ° PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, points and lines • Rotated-grid FSAA significantly 3Dpaint, CDRS The NVIDIA Quadro® family of In addition to a full line up of 2D and • Hardware OpenGL overlay planes increases color accuracy and visual ° SolidWorks • Hardware-accelerated two-sided quality for edges, while maintaining ° UDS NX Series, I-deas, SolidEdge, professional solutions for workstations 3D workstation graphics solutions, the lighting performance3 Unigraphics, SDRC delivers the fastest application NVIDIA Quadro professional products • Hardware-accelerated clipping planes and many more… Memory performance and the highest quality include a set of specialty solutions that • Third-generation occlusion culling • Digital Content Creation (DCC) graphics. have been architected to meet the • 16 textures per pixel • High-speed memory (up to 512MB Alias Maya, MOTIONBUILDER needs of a wide range of industry • OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin GDDR3) ° NewTek Lightwave 3D Raw performance and quality are only sync connector) • Advanced lossless compression ° professionals. These specialty Autodesk Media and Entertainment the beginning. The NVIDIA Quadro • Hardware-accelerated pixel read-back algorithms (color and Z data) ° solutions provide distinct features to 3ds Max, Side Effects Houdini, family takes the leading computer- enable advanced imaging visualization Next-generation Shading Unified Driver Architecture Softimage|XSI aided design (CAD), digital content and broadcast applications—from Architecture • Single driver supports all products • Video Applications creation (DCC), and scientific • Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL multi-system scalability and Operating Systems Adobe Premiere, After Effects, applications to a new level of 2.0/DirectX 9.0c class) ° synchronization to uncompressed ® ® Macromedia Suite interactivity by enabling unprecedented • Long fragment and vertex programs • Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, NT Apple Shake 10-bit HD-SDI video output. (up to 65,536 instructions) • Linux—Full OpenGL implementation, ° capabilities in programmability and Avid Media Composer Adrenaline • Looping and subroutines (up to 256 complete with NVIDIA and ARB ° precision. The industry’s leading HD, NewsCutter, Xpress, DS Nitris loops per vertex program) extensions (complete XFree 86 drivers) workstation applications leverage this ° Pinnacle Studio, and Liquid Edition • Dynamic flow control ® ™ NVIDIA nView Architecture Autodesk Media and Entertainment, architecture to enable hardware- • Conditional execution ° • Advanced multi-display desktop and Combustion accelerated features not found in any Architecture application management seamlessly ° NewTek, TriCaster other professional graphics solution. integrated into Microsoft Windows • x16 PCI Express • Oil and Gas • 128-bit IEEE floating point precision • Dual DVI output—drives two Schlumberger graphics pipeline independent digital displays at 1600 x ° 4 Paradigm GEO • 32-bit floating point per component 1200, or one at up to 3840 x 2400 ° Landmark • 12-bit subpixel precision • Dual-link TMDS—drives up to two ° digital displays at 3840 x 2400 @24 Hz • Up to 512 MB high-speed GDDR3 5,6 1 Available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400, FX 3400, memory simultaneously • 400 MHz DACs—two analog displays FX 3450, FX 4400, and FX 4500 • Up to 33 GBps. memory bandwidth 7 2 Bidirectional reflectance distribution function • Up to 4GB/sec. read back up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85 Hz each • OpenGL stereo support for resolutions 3 Available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 540, FX 1300, FX performance 1400; and NVIDIA FX Go1400, FX 3400, FX 3450, up to 3840 x 2400 • Unlimited programmability FX 4000 SDI, FX 4400, and FX 4500 • 3D volumetric textures Professional Certifications 4 NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 includes one DVI and one • Single-system powerwall analog output; NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 • CAD supports a combination of VGA, DVI, LVDS, and High-level Shader Languages ° Alias AutoStudio, DesignStudio TV-out • Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL ° Ansys 5 Single dual-link digital display available on NVIDIA shading language, and Microsoft HLSL ° Autodesk Architectural Desktop, Quadro FX 3400, FX 3450, and FX 4000 SDI • OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0c support AutoCAD, Inventor, Lightscape, 6 Dual dual-link digital display support on NVIDIA • Open source compiler Mechanical Desktop, VIZ Quadro FX 4400 and FX 4500 ° AVEVA: PDMS 7 NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 includes dual 350 MHz DACs ° Bentley Microstation ° Co|Create OneSpace

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The NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync can be combined with NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 or NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 to provide advanced multi-system visualization and external signal synchronization NVIDIA Quadro Architecture advantage of the programmable NVIDIA Certified for the Highest Quality for film and video environments. Achieves Unprecedented Quadro architecture by enabling Experience with the Most Performance sophisticated shaders to simulate a Demanding Workstation virtually unlimited range of physical Applications Integrated Graphics to Video Solution for Broadcast, Video, The NVIDIA Quadro architecture takes characteristics, such as lighting effects and Film Professionals application performance to new levels The performance and power of the Available NVIDIA Quadro (dispersion, reflection, refraction, The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI is the ideal solution for on-air broadcast professionals by featuring an array of parallel vertex NVIDIA Quadro architecture are built on Graphics Cards BRDF2 models) and even physical across many applications. The many applications include virtual-set, sports, and weather engines, a radically new line engine, and a solid foundation of quality engineering. surface properties (casting effects, PCI Express news systems. This solution will composite live video fully programmable pixel pipelines This engineering excellence is porosity, molded surfaces). Real-time NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 footage onto virtual backgrounds and send the result to coupled to a high-speed graphics exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver shaders allow these effects to be NVIDIA Quadro FX 4400 live video for TV broadcast. The solution also allows film DRAM bus. Pipeline efficiency is further Architecture (UDA), which is certified for combined and modified interactively, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 production and post-production professionals multiplied by NVIDIA’s next-generation quality by the entire spectrum of CAD something that is impossible with NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 to preview the results of 3D compositing, editing, and crossbar memory architecture, enabling and DCC applications. simple 2D static texture maps. NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 color grading in real time on HD broadcast monitors. occlusion culling, lossless depth The true power of UDA lies in the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1300 Z-buffer, and color compression. Full 128-bit Floating Point breadth of supported products and its NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 These elements combine to achieve Precision Delivers the Industry's long-term delivery of quality and NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 unprecedented 3D performance: blazing Highest Workstation Quality performance. All NVIDIA Quadro NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI geometry performance, lightening-fast Sophisticated real-time effects typically products, including previous NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 line performance, and massive fill rates involve multiple mathematical generations, are continually tested and PCI powered by superscalar pixel pipelines. certified. This rigorous testing process operations that demand high precision NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 PCI However, the true measure of power is to maintain image quality. The NVIDIA results in the industry’s highest quality application performance. The NVIDIA Quadro architecture features true hardware and drivers, even with Quadro architecture more than doubles 128-bit IEEE floating point precision applications released long after an Features Benefits the performance of the previous (32-bit fp per component), resulting in NVIDIA Quadro product has shipped. generation. With a pixel read-back the highest level of accuracy and the Uncompromised Professional Proven Workstation Graphics Architecture Parallel vertex engines, programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation-specific features result in the industry's performance of up to 4 GBps, massive ultimate in visual quality. Graphics to Go highest application performance and quality. host throughput gains can be achieved High subpixel precision is another major for OpenGL applications. In addition, The NVIDIA Quadro FX Go professional Advanced Vertex and Pixel Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects and surface properties. contributor to image quality, addressing NVIDIA Quadro graphics products solutions for mobile workstations deliver Programmability visual anomalies that cause models to the fastest application performance and enable true graphics scaling to Full 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline Enables mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. “speckle” or “crack.” The NVIDIA unprecedented levels of performance the highest quality graphics. The Quadro architecture virtually eliminates 12-Bit Subpixel Precision 3x that of the nearest competitive workstation graphics, 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric and scalability via an intelligent NVIDIA Quadro FX Go takes this problem by providing 12 bits of accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies. communication protocol, NVIDIA's the leading CAD and DCC subpixel precision, three times higher Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) applications to a new High-Quality Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200, 1 precision than the nearest competitive level of interactivity on resulting in highly realistic scenes. New rotated-grid FSAA algorithm (RG FSAA) delivers unprecedented quality technology . 3 product. a laptop by enabling and performance . Advanced Programmability The NVIDIA Quadro family delivers true unprecedented High-Precision Dynamic-Range Imaging Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, Empowers a New Class of 16-bit and 32-bit floating point formats capabilities in (HPDR) Technology3 and blending. Enables unprecedented quality of rendered images for visual effects processing. Supports 32-bit floating point precision per component—an industry exclusive. Applications for accurately matching visual images. programmability For the first time, styling and The 32-bit floating point precision and precision. Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back3 Up to 4 GBps. pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput, more than 10x the performance production rendering become integral format, an industry first and exclusive, of previous generations of graphics systems. functions of the design workflow, meets the needs of cutting-edge PCI Express Support Designed specifically to take advantage of the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus shortening the production process and applications. All images have a doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X, delivering over 4 GBps in both upstream and downstream data transfers. enabling faster time to market. smoother, more appealing variation in 512MB GDDR3 Support Delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and high performance for real-time Leading this change in functionality are color density, which increases visual processing of large textures and frames, and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing. the major CAD and DCC application realism and generates photorealistic rendered images. Scalable Link Interface (SLI) Technology Enables NVIDIA Quadro products to be linked together via an intelligent communication protocol,resulting in true vendors. End users can take full graphics scaling to unprecedented levels of performance and quality1.