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The NVIDIA Quadro

by PNY

Technologies family of professional
solutions for workstations delivers the
fastest application performance and
the highest quality graphics.

Raw performance and quality are only
the beginning. The NVIDIA Quadro
family takes the leading computer-
aided design (CAD), digital content
creation (DCC), and scientific
applications to a new level of
interactivity by enabling unprecedented
capabilities in programmability and
precision. The industry’s leading
workstation applications leverage this
architecture to enable hardware-
accelerated features not found in any
other professional graphics solution.

In addition to a full line up of 2D and
3D workstation graphics solutions, the
NVIDIA Quadro professional products
include a set of specialty solutions that
have been architected to meet the
needs of a wide range of industry
professionals. These specialty
solutions provide distinct features to
enable advanced imaging visualization
and broadcast applications—from
multi-system scalability and
synchronization to uncompressed
12-bit HD-SDI video output.

NVIDIA Quadro Workstation GPU

• Full 128-bit floating point precision

pipeline

• 12-bit subpixel precision
• Hardware-accelerated antialiased

points and lines

• Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
• Hardware-accelerated two-sided

lighting

•  Hardware-accelerated clipping planes
•  Third-generation occlusion culling
•  16 textures per pixel
•  OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin

sync connector)

• Hardware-accelerated pixel read-back

Next-generation Shading

Architecture

• Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL

2.0/DirectX 9.0c support)

• Unlimited long fragment and

vertex programs

• Looping and subroutines (up to 256

loops per vertex program)

• Dynamic flow control
• Conditional execution

Architecture

• x16 PCI Express
• 128-bit IEEE floating point precision

graphics pipeline

•   32-bit floating point per component
•   12-bit subpixel precision
•   Up to 512MB high-speed GDDR3

memory

• Up to 38.4GB/sec. memory bandwidth
• Up to 2.4GB/sec. read back

performance

•   Unlimited programmability
•  3D volumetric texture support
•  Single-system powerwall

High-level Shader Languages

• Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL

shading language, and Microsoft HLSL

• OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0c support
• Open source compiler

High-resolution Antialiasing

• Up to 16x full-scene antialiasing (FSAA),

at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200

• 12-bit subpixel sampling precision

enhances AA quality

• Rotated-grid FSAA significantly

increases color accuracy and visual
quality for edges, while maintaining
performance

Memory

• High-speed memory (up to 512MB

GDDR3)

• Advanced lossless compression

algorithms (color and Z data)

Unified Driver Architecture

• Single driver supports all products

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows

XP, 2000, NT

• Linux—Full OpenGL implementation,

complete with NVIDIA and ARB
extensions (complete XFree 86 drivers)

• AMD64, Intel EM64T

NVIDIA

nView

™

Architecture

• Advanced multi-display desktop and

application management seamlessly
integrated into Microsoft Windows

• Dual DVI output—drives two

independent digital displays at 1600 x
1200, or one at up to 3840 x 2400

• Dual-link TMDS—drives up to two

digital displays at 3840 x 2400 @ 24Hz
simultaneously

6,7

• 400MHz DACs—two analog displays

up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz each

• OpenGL stereo support for resolutions

up to 3840 x 2400

Professional Certifications

• CAD
° Alias AutoStudio, DesignStudio

° Ansys

° Autodesk Architectural Desktop,

AutoCAD, Inventor, Lightscape,
Mechanical Desktop, VIZ

° AVEVA: PDMS

° Bentley Microstation

° Co|Create OneSpace

° Dassault CATIA

° ESRI ArcGIS

° ICEM Surf

° MSC.Nastran, MSC.Patran

° PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire,

3Dpaint, CDRS

° SolidWorks

° UGS NX Series, I-deas, SolidEdge,

Unigraphics, SDRC

and many more…

• Digital Content Creation (DCC)

° Alias Maya, MOTIONBUILDER

° NewTek Lightwave 3D

° Autodesk Media and Entertainment

3ds Max, Side Effects Houdini,
Softimage|XSI

• Video Applications

° Adobe Premiere, After Effects,

Macromedia Suite

° Apple Shake

° Avid Media Composer Adrenaline

HD, NewsCutter, Xpress, DS Nitris

° Pinnacle Studio, and Liquid Edition

° Autodesk Media and Entertainment,

Combustion

° NewTek, TriCaster

• Oil and Gas

° Schlumberger

° Paradigm GEO

° Landmark

1 Available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500, FX 4400,

FX 3450, FX 3400, and FX 1400

2 Bidirectional reflectance distribution function
3 Available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI,

FX 4500, FX 4400, FX 3450, FX 3400, FX 1400,
FX 540, FX 2500M, FX 1500M, and FX 350M

4 Available on NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI and

FX 4500

5 NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 includes one DVI and one

analog output; NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M, 1500M
and 350M support a combination of VGA, DVI,
LVDS, and TV-out

6 Single dual-link digital display available on NVIDIA

Quadro FX 4500 SDI, FX 3450, and FX 3400

7 Dual dual-link digital display support on NVIDIA

Quadro FX 4500 and FX 4400

8 NVIDIA Quadro FX 330 includes dual 350 MHz

DACs

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