VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB - PNY nVidia Quadro FX4500 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI PCI Express Video Graphics Card

About PNY VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB, GDDR3, 256 bit, 3840 x 2400 pixels

PNY VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB. Graphics card memory type: GDDR3, Memory bus: 256 bit. Maximum resolution: 3840 x 2400 pixels. DirectX version: 9.0c, OpenGL version: 1.5, Dual Link DVI

NVIDIA Quadro FX Architecture Achieves Unprecedented Performance
Featuring the industry's broadest family of PCI Express™ products designed from the ground up with the needs of professional CAD, DCC, and Scientific Visualization applications and users in mind, NVIDIA Quadro FX ushers in a new era of unprecedented performance, programmability, precision, and quality. As the ultimate expression of this design focus the FX 4500 anchors the ultra high-end segment of the NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY product line.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture as expressed in the FX 4500 takes application performance to new levels by featuring an array of parallel vertex engines, a radically new line engine, and fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to a high-speed graphics DRAM bus. Pipeline efficiency is further multiplied by NVIDIA's next-generation crossbar memory architecture - enabling occlusion-culling, lossless depth Z-buffer, and color compression.

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

Proven Workstation Graphics Architecture
Parallel vertex engines, programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation specific features result in the industry's highest application performance and quality.

Advanced Vertex and Pixel Programmability
Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects and surface properties.

Full 128-bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Enables mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality.

12-bit Subpixel Precision
3x that of the nearest competitive workstation graphics, 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies..

High Precision Dynamic Range Imaging (HDPR) Technology
Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing. Support for 32-bit floating point precision per component - an industry exclusive.

Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) Technology
SLI allows dual GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) to significantly accelerate graphics performance. Professional users benefit by using SLI technology on twin graphics boards to span a hardware accelerated OpenGL windows across multiple displays, or to run a single application per GPU. SLI also offers dual GPU performance on a single display by utilizing the capabilities of two NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to drive it (SLI connector required).

PCI Express Support
Designed specifically to take advantage of the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

Unified Driver Architecture
Provides easy installation and manageability through a single unified driver for large scale system deployment. The performance and power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are built on a solid foundation of quality engineering. This engineering excellence is exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications.

PERFORMANCE

- Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline
- 12-bit subpixel precision
- 8 pixels per clock rendering engine
- Hardware antialiased points and lines
- Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
- Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
- Thermal management: Active fan sink
- Hardware accelerated clipping planes
- 3rd generation occlusion culling
- 16 textures per pixel
- OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
- High-performance OpenGL hardware accelerated pixel readback
- x16 PCI Express bus interface

HARDWARE

- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
- PCI Express x16 form factor card
- Physical dimensions: 4.376 inches x 9.00 inches
- Thermal management: Active fan sink
- External connectors: Two (2) dual link DVI-I connectors, 3-pin mini-DIN stereo connector
- Internal connectors: NVIDIA Scaleable Link Interface (SLI) 29-pin edge connector, 6-pin PCI Express power connector

VERTEX PROCESSING

- Full support for Shader Model 3.0/DirectX 9.1
- Displacement mapping
- Vertex processing can access texture
- Dynamic flow control
- Branching, call and return
- Vertex frequency stream divider

PIXEL PROCESSING

- Full support for Shader Model 3.0/DirectX 9.1
- 65,536 instruction pixel shader programs - shatters PS 2.0 limit of 96
- Flow control - loops and branching
- Highest precision pixel shading - native, optimized FP32 processing
- Flexible data type support - FP32, FP16 operand formats
- Multiple render target support
- Output to 4 destination color surfaces plus 1 depth surface
- 4xFP32 per pixel, per surface

OpenGL and DirectX

- Comprehensive OpenGL 1.5 (and earlier) support
- Full Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (and earlier) support
- DirectX and S3TC texture compression
- Programmable vertex and pixel shaders are exposed to OpenGL and Direct3D

SLI (Scalable Link Interface)

- SLI allows dual GPUs to significantly enhance graphics performance
- SLI Multi-View allows an OpenGL hardware accelerated window to span multiple displays
- Applications can be assigned to a specific GPU under SLI Multi-View
- SLI Frame Rendering scales application performance on a single display (two PCI Express graphics boards and SLI connector required)
- SLI Frame Rendering supports Split Frame Rendering (SFR) for fill rate-limited applications and Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) for geometry-limited applications.
- Requires two identical NVIDIA Quadro FX boards (1400, 3400, 3450, 4400, 4500) and SLI connector (for SLI Frame Rendering)

Display Features

- High-precision scanout - 32-bit floating point color precision per component
- 2 Integrated TMDS transmitters
- Dual internal 400MHz DAC
- Maximum VGA resolution 2048 x 1536 x 32 bpp at 85Hz
- Maximum resolution over digital port (Single GPU) 3840 x 2400 x 32 bpp at 24Hz (reduced blanking)
- Maximum resolution over digital port (SLI frame rendering mode) 2560 x 1600 x 32 bpp at 60Hz (reduced blanking)
- Supports Apple 20, 23, and 30 inch Cinema Displays, including SLI mode

Package Contains

- NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 by PNY graphics board
- Two DVI-I to VGA adapters
- Drivers for Windows XP, 2000, and NT
- Detailed Installation Guide
- Quickstart Installation Guide
- SLI Quickstart Installation Guide
- Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)
- 6-pin power connector cable