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.


Entry-Level/Mid-Range
High-End/Ultra High-End
Specialty

Entry-Level

NVIDIA Quadro® FX entry-level products are designed to deliver cost-effective solutions without compromising quality, precision, performance and programmability for professional 3D environments.

The NVIDIA Quadro entry products are certified on a wide set of CAD, DCC, and visualization applications, offering the value and capabilities professional users expect.
 

Mid-Range

NVIDIA Quadro® FX mid-range graphics products are the industry’s best price performance workstation graphics solutions providing the optimal blend of quality, precision, performance, programmability for all professional 3D applications including CAD, DCC and visualization applications.

 

    The latest mid-range solution, NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1700 graphics board, delivers
    exceptional performance, quality, and price for professionals. Featuring a
    revolutionary unified architecture, Quadro FX 1700 dynamically allocates geometry,
    shading, pixel, and compute processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance
    while consuming significantly less power. With a C programming environment, Quadro
    FX 1700 is certified on all industry-leading CAD, DCC, and visualization applications.


Available Solutions

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY

Entry-Level

Mid-Range

Board Features

FX 370

FX 560

FX 570

FX 1500

FX 1700

FX 3450

Memory size (per GPU)

256MB

128MB

256MB

256MB

512MB

256MB

Memory Type

GDDR2

GDDR3

GDDR2

GDDR3

GDDR2

GDDR3

Memory Interface

64-bit

128-bit

128-bit

256-bit

128-bit

256-bit

Memory Bandwidth

6.4GB/sec.

19.2GB/sec.

12.8GB/sec.

40GB/sec.

12.8GB/sec.

27.2 GB/sec.

Display Connectors

DVI-I (2)

DVI-I (2) HD Output

DVI-I (2)

DVI-I (2) HD Output

DVI-I (2) HD Output

DVI-I (2), ST

Dual Link DVI-I

1

1

2

2

2

1

Max Power Consumption

35W

30W

38W

65W

42W

82W

Number of Slots

1

1

1

1

1

1

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.0

2.1

2.0

Shader Model

4.0

3.0

4.0

3.0

4.0

3.0

Direct X

10.0

9.0c

10.0

9.0c

10.0

9.0c

SLI Frame Rendering

-

-

-

-

-

Yes

Genlock/Framelock Option

-

-

-

-

-

-

SDI Output Option

-

-

-

-

-

-

3D Primitive Performance

Geometry (triangles/Second)

66 Million

126 Million

137 Million

144 Million

191 Million

150 Million

Fill Rate (Texels/Second)

2.88 Billion

2.8 Billion

3.68 Billion

6.0 Billion

7.36 billion

4.2 Billion

Relative Application Performance2

3dsmax-04

25.61

27.90

30.02

30.63

34.73

29.80

catia-02

35.86

38.92

41.57

40.44

44.47

40.09

ensight-03

17.85

16.05

23.03

17.18

29.38

16.78

light-08

35.20

37.24

37.68

37.39

37.76

37.54

maya-02

52.19

71.91

73.01

85.31

110.80

83.63

proe-04

26.54

28.45

32.48

31.18

39.51

31.61

sw-01

34.36

36.44

44.84

41.16

56.12

39.21

tcvis-01

6.94

6.87

9.09

7.95

15.04

7.81

ugnx-01

6.93

9.53

8.91

10.66

14.29

10.84

2SPECviewperf® 9: for more information visit www.spec.org.  Tested on 3 GHz Dual Core Duo Xeon®, Driver Release 97.00