Solutions for Advanced Visualization
Many interactive graphics visualization applications require the use of multiple systems to drive multiple displays or projectors. These systems treat the displays as a "virtual canvas" that behaves like one large display. Until the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500G by PNY (or FX 3000G) the challenge of providing multiple views of the same large dataset in real-time with minimum latency has only been addressed by expensive and proprietary system clusters.

In addition, other applications for video and post-production require the ability to synchronize graphics with other input streams and recording devices for video effects, editing and compositing.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500G graphics solution unleashes these capabilities - called "genlock," "frame lock," or "frame sync" - that have traditionally only been available on expensive, proprietary hardware platforms.
Furthermore, the FX 4500G solution introduces revolutionary capabilities that have never been available in these proprietary platforms, including programmable shading, high-precision graphics computation, and significantly increased graphics performance.

Applications that benefit from using the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500G by PNY include:

Overview

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500G by PNY teams all of the features and functionality of the FX 4500 with the addition of two breakthrough features: frame lock and genlock. Both features allow the video output from multiple NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500G boards to be synchronized with external devices, but each feature enables a distinctly different solution.

Frame lock allows the display channels from multiple workstations to be synchronized, thus creating one large "virtual display" that can be driven by a multi-system cluster for performance scalability.
Genlock (also known as "house sync") allows the graphics output to synchronize to an external source, typically for film and broadcast video applications.

Solution Components

The FX 4500G advanced visualization solution consists of the following components:

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 by PNY professional graphics board
NVIDIA Quadro G-Sync by PNY frame lock/genlock card
NVIDIA-supplied API extensions for Windows (WGL) and Linux (X and GLX) operating systems enable applications to take full advantage of the capabilities of the FX 4500G (FX 4500 + G-Sync) hardware.

Key Features & Benefits

Proven Professional 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 graphics boards, 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies.

High Quality Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing
Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 3840x2400, resulting in highly realistic scenes. New Rotated Grid FSAA (RGFSAA) delivers unprecedented quality and performance.

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.

Hardware Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
Greater than 1.0GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput, more than 5x the performance of previous generation graphics systems.

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 4GB/sec 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 Features
	Full 128-bit floating point precision pipeline
	12-bit subpixel precision
	8 pixels per clock rendering engine
	Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
	Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
	Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
	Hardware accelerated clipping planes
	3rd generation occlusion culling
	16 textures per pixel
	OpenGL quad-buffered stereo
	Hardware accelerated pixel read-back
	Multi-sampling RG FSAA (Rotated Grid Full Scene Antialiasing)
	High Precision Dynamic Range Imaging (HPDR)

Architecture
	x16 PCI Express
	512MB high-speed GDDR3 frame buffer
	128-bit IEEE floating point precision graphics pipeline
	128-bit color
	32-bit floating point frame buffer
	12-bit subpixel precision
	Up to 16x FSAA
	Unlimited programmability
	3D volumetric textures buffer
	Single-system powerwall
	RJ-45 Genlock, RJ-45 Framelock, and BNC House Sync connectors on G-Sync card
	Dual-Link TMDS transmitter
	Two DVI-I output display connectors (both dual-link)
	3-pin stereo connector
	ATX form factor

Next Generation Shading Architecture
	Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 2.0/Direct X 9.0 class)
	Long fragment and vertex programs (up to 65,536 instructions)
	Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
	Dynamic flow control
	Conditional execution

High-Level Shader Languages
	Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL shading language and Microsoft® HLSL
	Open GL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support
	Open source compiler

Package Contains
	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 by PNY graphics board
	NVIDIA G-Sync by PNY frame lock/genlock card
	Two 7" ribbon cables to connect FX 4500 and G-Sync (one used, one spare)
	DVI to VGA adapters
	6-pin power cable
	CD-ROM Containing: Drivers for Windows XP, 2000, and NT including OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support Detailed installation guide Quickstart installation guide
	Quadro Application Utilities (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)

Minimum System Requirements
	PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Athlon®/Opteron® class processor or higher
	Open PCI Express x16 lane slot (for FX 4500) and
	Open PCI or PCI Express slot within 7" of the FX 4500 (for the G-Sync card)
	Microsoft Windows® XP, 2000, NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6) or Linux®
	256MB system memory
	50MB of available disk space for full installation
	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
	DVI-I or VGA compatible display
	350W power supply