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5th-Generation Workstation Parallel vertex engines, eight programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation specific features result in the Graphics Architecture industry's highest professional OpenGL and DirectX application performance and quality. 3rd-Generation Vertex Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects (such as fresnel effects, chromatic and Pixel Programmability dispersion, reflection, refraction, etc.) and surface properties (such as casting effects, molded surfaces etc.). Full 128-bit Precision Enables mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full Graphics Pipeline 128-bit IEEE floating-point color precision delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. 12-bit Subpixel Precision 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies. 16x Full-Scene Antialiasing Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 3840x2400, (FSAA) resulting in highly realistic scenes. NVIDIA POWERwall2 The NVIDIA patented single-system POWERwall technology allows any application to be projected on a dual- channel powerwall, with sophisticated edge-blending to achieve uniform luminosity. POWERwall works transparently with any application. Genlock / Framelock3 The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G allows applications to sync video refresh and buffer swaps across multiple systems to create scalable multi-system reality centers for collaborative engineering and design reviews. The NVIIDA Quadro FX 3000G can also sync to standard video formats and house-sync signals for video post- The NVIDIA Quadro® FX series of professional solutions delivers processing and editing solutions. the fastest application performance and the highest quality workstation graphics. Raw performance and quality are only

NVIDIA QUADRO FX WORKSTATION GPU HIGH-RESOLUTION ANTIALIASING • Dual DVI output—Drives two independent digital the beginning—NVIDIA Quadro FX takes the leading computer- • Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline • 16x Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) up to displays at 1600 x1200, or one at 3840x24005. • 12-bit subpixel precision 2048x1536 per display or 3840x2400 for single • Dual-link TMDS—Drive one digital display up to aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) • 8 pixels per clock rendering engine digital display 2048x1536 and another at 1600x1200 • Hardware accelerated antialiased points & lines • 12-bit subpixel sampling precision enhances simultaneously6 applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling • Hardware OpenGL overlay planes AA quality • 400 MHz DACs—Two analog displays up to unprecedented capabilities in programmability and precision. • Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting 2048x1536 @ 85Hz each7 • Hardware accelerated clipping planes APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY • Optimized and certified for all leading • OpenGL stereo support for resolutions up to • 3rd-generation occlusion culling 3840x2400 For the first time, styling and production rendering • 16 textures per pixel workstation applications • OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector) • Fully compliant with OpenGL 1.5 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS: CAD become integral functions of the design workflow, • AGP 8x with Fast Writes and sideband addressing and DirectX 9.0 • Ansys® • Autodesk AutoCAD MEMORY UNIFIED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE shortening the production process and • Single driver supports all products • Autodesk Inventor • High-speed memory (up to 256MB) • Bentley Microstation® enabling faster time to market. • Advanced lossless compression algorithms NVIDIA QUADRO APPLICATION UTILITIES • Co|Create™ SolidDesigner (color and Z data) • POWERdraft (AutoCAD) • Dassault CATIA® CINEFX SHADING ARCHITECTURE • MAXtreme (3ds max) • ESRI ArcInfo • Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 1.5/DirectX • QuadroView (CAD viewer) • Helix 9.0 class) OPERATING SYSTEMS • ICEMsurf • Long fragment programs (up to 2048 instructions) • Windows® XP (WHQL-certified) • MSC Nastran/Patran • Long vertex programs (up to 65,536 instructions) • Windows 2000 (WHQL-certified) • Plant Designer/Imagineer • Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per • Windows NT® •PTC® Pro/ENGINEER™ vertex program) • Windows 98, Windows 95 • PTC 3Dpaint™ • Dynamic flow control • Linux—Full OpenGL implementation, complete • SDRC I-DEAS® Master Series • Conditional execution with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (complete • SolidWorks® HIGH-LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGES XFree 86 drivers) • UGS Solid Edge™ • Unigraphics® • Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft HLSL NVIEW ARCHITECTURE • and many more… • OpenGL 1.5 and DirectX 9.0 support • Advanced multi-display desktop & application • Open source compiler management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS: DCC Windows. • Alias|Wavefront Maya® • Alias|Wavefront StudioTools® • Discreet 3ds max • Newtek Lightwave 3D™ • Side Effects Houdini™ • SOFTIMAGE|3D • SOFTIMAGE|XSI • and many more…

5 NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 includes one DVI and one analog output, Go700 includes one digital/analog and one TV output 6 Dual-link digital display available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000/3000/3000G 7 NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 includes dual 350MHz DACs

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© 2003 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. Time Machine and Dawn images © 2002 NVIDIA Corporation. Front car image courtesy EdenFX. All company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice. The Benefits of Cg Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard CERTIFIED FOR THE HIGHEST QUALITY programming language for OpenGL and DirectX, leveraging the power of programmable GPUs. Using EXPERIENCE WITH THE MOST DEMANDING Cg, CAD, and DCC applications enable the creation WORKSTATION APPLICATIONS and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into The Definition of Performance 3D models, scenes, and designs. 3 The performance and power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are 2 built on a solid foundation of quality engineering. This engineering excellence is exemplified by the NVIDIA The Standard for Quality Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications. 2 Colored Translucence fixed 3 diffterm = diffterm + 0.3 * The true power of UDA lies in the breadth of supported Robust Skeletal Animation bgImg * 1 tex2D(translucenceMap2, diffCol.xy); worldNormal = worldNormal + a2v. products and its long-term delivery of quality and boneWeight0_3.z * NVIDIA QUADRO FX ARCHITECTURE ACHIEVES ADVANCED PROGRAMMABILITY EMPOWERS vecMul(model[a2v.boneIndex0_3.z], performance. All NVIDIA Quadro products, including objectNormal.xyz); 1 UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE A NEW CLASS OF APPLICATIONS 3 previous generations, are continually tested and certified. The NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture takes application performance The design cycle is a long, iterative process from concept, to 1 3 Skin Oil Variations This rigorous testing process results in the industry’s fixed3 sheen = oilSpec * tex2D highest quality hardware and drivers, even with to new levels by featuring an array of parallel vertex engines, modeling, to final production. This final production can require (oilyMap, diffuseCoord.xy).xyz; a radically new line engine, the industry’s first on-chip vertex hours of offline CPU rendering. The programmability of applications released long after an NVIDIA Quadro cache, and eight fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to the NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture empowers the product may have shipped. a high-speed graphics DRAM bus. Graphics pipeline efficiency is industry’s leading OpenGL® and Microsoft® DirectX® NVIDIA continues to develop enhanced application utilities magnified by NVIDIA’s next-generation crossbar memory workstation applications to now make the production and multi-display software for the NVIDIA Quadro family of 3D products. architecture, enabling occlusion-culling, lossless depth Z-buffer, rendering process an integral part of real-time design. Designers can now interactively modify These popular NVIDIA Quadro application utilities (POWERdraft, and color compression. This reduces design cycles, increases productivity, and and view surface finishes on dashboards MAXtreme, QuadroView) are capable of increasing their target accelerates time to market. These elements combine to achieve unprecedented 3D primitive or hand tools by modifying the stipple and application performance by up to 200%, and can be downloaded directly performance: 100 million lit and textured triangles per second, Leading this change in functionality are the major surface reflectance; the sheen of a from www.nvidia.com. This productivity gain is compounded by the five times faster line performance than the NVIDIA Quadro4 CAD and DCC application vendors, including: character’s skin can be adjusted through a award-winning NVIDIA nView™ multi-display solution, the perfect professional graphics solutions, and massive fill rate powered by SolidWorks®, Alias|Wavefront™, Discreet®, Softimage®, dynamic range from oily to dry by interactively complement to the industry’s highest quality workstation graphics eight pixel pipelines. But the true measure of power is application and more. End users can take full advantage of the adjusting a few sliders; or objects can be programmed to product line. performance—and the NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture delivers programmable NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture by enabling dynamically self shadow. Real-time shaders allow these effects to more than double the performance vs. the previous generation. sophisticated shaders to simulate a virtually unlimited be combined and modified interactively—impossible with simple 2D THE DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE range of physical characteristics, such as lighting effects static texture maps. THE STANDARD FOR QUALITY In addition, all NVIDIA products utilize the NVIDIA Unified Driver (fresnel effects, chromatic dispersion, reflection, Productivity improvements can be achieved in two ways—through Architecture (UDA), which is continually optimized for 1 FULL 128-BIT FLOATING-POINT PRECISION refraction, BRDF models, etc.) and even speed, or through efficiency. The right graphics hardware can enable performance, quality, and support throughout the life of every physical surface properties (such as casting DELIVERS THE INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST NVIDIA Quadro product. both. Based on a foundation of quality engineering, NVIDIA Quadro FX effects, porosity, molded surfaces, etc.). WORKSTATION QUALITY delivers blistering application performance, unmatched features, and

Image courtesy of SolidWorks. Sophisticated real-time effects typically involve multiple the industry’s highest image quality. Coupled with professional CAD POSITIONING ARCHITECTURE HIGH LEVEL mathematical operations that demand high precision to maintain and DCC applications, the NVIDIA Quadro FX makes real-time SHADING LANGUAGES image quality. The NVIDIA Quadro FX features 128-bit IEEE floating- rendering an integral part of the design workflow, shortening NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G Revolutionary multi- • 128-bit IEEE floating-point • High-level shader pointprecision, making available millions of colors in a broad dynamic the production process and enabling faster time to market. system scalable advanced precision graphics pipeline language compiler visualization power range. This results in the highest level of accuracy and • 128-bit color (Microsoft HLSL and Cg the ultimate in visual quality. NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 Ultimate power for full-scale • 12-bit subpixel precision for the latest DirectX 9 and models and datasets OpenGL 1.5 APIs) • Up to 256MB high-speed SDRAM High subpixel precision is another major contributor to image quality, • Open-source compiler NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 High-end workstation • Up to 27.2GB/s. memory addressing visual anomalies that cause models to “spreckle” or features and performance bandwidth “crack.” The NVIDIA Quadro FX virtually eliminates this problem by NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 Excellent combination • Up to 16x FSAA providing 12 bits of subpixel precision—four times higher precision of features, price and • CineFX™ shading architecture performance than the nearest competitive product. ° 2,048 fragment instruction NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Full NVIDIA Quadro FX Precision continues to be a critical factor when rendering high quality ° 65,536 vertex instruction features at an • 3D volumetric textures antialiased images—for both line and full-scene antialiasing. The entry-level price • Single-system POWERwall2 NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture accelerates antialiased points and lines NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700 Uncompromised • Multi-system Framelock3 professional graphics in hardware, and supports up to 16x FSAA. And unlike other graphics to Go. • Genlock3 hardware, NVIDIA Quadro FX products drive up to a phenomenal 3840x2400 resolution. 4 NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL Aggressive blend of • Up to 128MB DDR SDRAM 4 • High-level shader language NVIDIA Quadro4 750 XGL price, performance, • Up to 8x FSAA compiler (Microsoft HLSL and features and Cg for OpenGL 1.4 and • nfiniteFX™ II vertex and DirectX 8) pixel programmability • Open-source compiler • 3D volumetric textures 4 NVIDIA Quadro4 580 XGL Fastest entry-level 4 NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL workstation graphics performance

3 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G only 1 Bidirectional reflectance distribution function The new Dell Precision™ M60 mobile workstation 2 NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000/2000/3000/3000G 4 For more information on NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL features and specifications, please visit www.nvidia.com/quadro featuring NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700 graphics