NVIDIA Quadro® professional solutions deliver the fastest application performance, the highest quality workstation graphics and are fully certified on all industry-leading professional applications. But raw performance and quality are only the beginning--NVIDIA Quadro takes the leading computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC), and visualization applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling unprecedented capabilities in performance, programmability, and precision.



High-End

NVIDIA Quadro® high-end graphics solutions are the industry-leading workstation graphics solutions for CAD, DCC and visualization applications. Featuring outstanding performance and quality, NVIDIA Quadro high-end products deliver up to 512MB frame buffer memory, up to 51.2GB/sec. memory bandwidth, 256-bit memory interface and support for ultra high-resolution panels up to 2560x1600 for ultimate productivity. Offering a new level of interactivity for engineers and designers, NVIDIA Quadro high-end graphics solutions enable shorter production cycles and faster time-to-market.




    Introducing the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 graphics board, best-of-class solution
   for CAD, DCC, and visualization professionals, offers new levels of performance and
   interactivity, enabling shorter production cycles, and faster time to market.


Ultra High-End

NVIDIA Quadro® ultra high-end graphics solutions shatter the limits facing CAD, DCC, and visualization applications. Armed with a radically new graphics architecture engineered to address the most demanding challenges facing professionals, NVIDIA Quadro ultra high-end products deliver up to 76.8GB/sec. memory bandwidth, 1.5GB GDDR3 frame buffer memory, 384-bit memory interface and support for two ultra-high resolution (3840 x 2400) digital panels.

The NVIDIA Quadro family also offers a variety of specialty products that meet the needs of demanding workstation professionals, including NVIDIA Quadro SDI (enables direct connection to broadcast equipment for preview, recording, or on-air broadcast) and NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync (an option card that delivers frame lock/genlock functionality to unprecedented levels of industrial realism, visualization and collaborative capabilities).



Available Solutions

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY

High-End

Ultra High-End

Board Features

FX 3500

FX 3700

FX 4500

FX 4500 X2

FX 4600

FX 5500

FX 5600

Memory size (per GPU)

256MB

512MB

512MB

512MB per GPU

768MB

1GB

1.5GB

Memory Type

GDDR3

GDDR3

GDDR3

GDDR2

GDDR3

GDDR2

GDDR3

Memory Interface

256-bit

256-bit

256-bit

256-bit

384-bit

256-bit

384-bit

Memory Bandwidth

42.2GB/sec.

51.2GB/sec.

33.6GB/sec.

33.6GB/sec.

67.2GB/sec.

33.6GB/sec.

76.8GB/sec.

Display Connectors

DVI-I (2), ST

DVI-I (2), ST

DVI-I (2), ST

DVI-I (4), ST

DVI-I(2), ST

DVI-I (2), ST

DVI-I (2), ST

Dual Link DVI-I

2

2

2

4

2

2

2

Max Power Consumption

80W

78W

108W

145W

134W

96W

171W

Number of Slots

1

1

2

2

2

2

2

OpenGL

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.1

Shader Model

3.0

4.0

3.0

3.0

4.0

3.0

4.0

Direct X

9.0c

10.0

9.0c

9.0c

10.0

9.0c

10.0

SLI Frame Rendering

Yes

Yes

Yes

-

Yes

Yes

Yes

Genlock/Framelock Option

-

-

Yes1

-

Optional

Yes1

Optional

SDI Output Option

-

-

-

-

Optional

Optional

Optional

3D Primitive Performance

Geometry (triangles/Second)

174 Million

250 Million

181 Million

208 Million

250 Million

225 Million

300 Million

Fill Rate (Texels/Second)

9.4 Billion

28.0 Billion

10.8 Billion

12.0 Billion

12.0 billion

15.6 Billion

19.2 Billion

Relative Application Performance2

3dsmax-04

33.36

36.06

34.24

34.22

36.82

36.09

36.40

catia-02

43.06

45.35

42.97

42.65

45.21

44.86

46.79

ensight-03

17.47

41.43

24.29

24.97

41.64

27.43

46.59

light-08

37.51

37.10

37.54

37.60

37.99

37.45

37.67

maya-02

108.10

169.90

107.30

112.20

172.70

137.00

192.50

proe-04

37.22

40.69

36.91

38.80

40.04

42.08

40.03

sw-01

49.84

77.95

51.62

54.34

73.48

60.62

77.50

tcvis-01

10.56

23.79

11.06

11.78

14.58

16.32

17.26

ugnx-01

14.91

26.96

16.03

17.24

25.20

22.07

31.16

1NVIDIA Quadro G-sync is available as a separate option card for NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500, 4500 X2, and 4500.
2SPECviewperf® 9: for more information visit www.spec.org.  Tested on 3 GHz Dual Core Duo Xeon®, Driver Release 97.00
3NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 requires driver release 91.36 or higher