NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY – Visualization Beyond 3D

Whether searching for and extracting oil, designing and bringing the next luxury vehicle to market, or providing a diagnosis of a patient’s condition, professionals are faced with a mountain of data that needs to be distilled into meaningful and actionable visualizations. The size and complexity of data is growing at an exponential rate. In an increasingly competitive and high-pressure landscape, professionals need to deliver results better, faster, and more cost effectively than ever before. Traditional processing paradigms just cannot keep up.

With advances in the GPU architecture, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY gives geophysicists, designers, scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals visual supercomputing from their desktops. Professional applications take advantage of the Quadro FX 5800 advanced feature set, including up to 4GB of frame buffer, leading to greater interactivity with large datasets, providing the right set of tools to deliver results that push visualization beyond traditional 3D.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY is the ultra high-end solution in our Quadro FX product family and incorporates NVIDIA’s second generation unified architecture to deliver up to a 50% performance improvement over the first generation through 240 processor cores.

FEATURES

• 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline: Enables sophisticated mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.
• 64-Bit Floating Point Precision: Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 64-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
• 4GB GDDR3 GPU Memory with ultra fast memory bandwidth: Industry’s first 4GB GPU Memory and massive memory bandwidth up to 102GB/sec. delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and high-performance for real-time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing (FSAA).
• Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull: Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
• Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language: Cg—C for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language for OpenGL that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. Quadro programmable graphics pipelines leverage high-level shading languages to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes, and designs.
• Essential for Microsoft® Windows Vista: Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32and 64-bit architectures to enable the Windows Vista experience.
• Fast 3D Texture Transfer: Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset.
• Frame Synchronization: Allows the display channels from multiple workstations to be synchronized, thus creating one large "virtual display" that can be driven by a multisystem cluster for performance scalability.
• Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA): Up to 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or jaggies, resulting in highly realistic scenes.
• External Synchronization: Also known as house sync. External Synchronization allows the graphics output to synchronized to an external source, typically for film and broadcast video applications.
• NVIDIA ® CUDA™: A C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing and interactive volume rendering.
• NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions: NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities.
• Hardware 3D Window Clipping: Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) which improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.
• Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back: Up to 2.4GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput.
• Highest Workstation Application Performance: Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry’s highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
• High-Performance Display Outputs: 400MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market.
• 8K Texture and Render Processing: The ability to texture from and render to 8K x 8K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0: Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications.
• Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability: NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs. NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.
• NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) 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.
• NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology: PureVideo technology is the combination of high-definition video processors and software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for SD and HD video content. Features include, high-quality scaling, spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and high quality HD video playback from DVD.
• NVIDIA Unified Architecture: Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
• NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology: The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are designed to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing.
• PCI Express Certified: PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
• Powerwall: NVIDIA's patented single-system powerwall technology allows any application to be projected on a dual-channel powerwall with sophisticated edge blending in order to achieve uniform luminosity. Powerwall works transparently with any application.
• Quad Buffered Stereo: Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications that demand stereo viewing capability.
• Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA): The rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, reducing jaggies while maintaining performance.
• NVIDIA® SLI® Technology: A revolutionary platform innovation that enables professional users to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, and expand display real estate.
• Dual Dual-Link Digital Display Connectors: Dual dual-link TMDS transmitters support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @ 24Hz on each panel) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
• Single DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors: DisplayPort support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600)-which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
• Ultra quiet design: Acoustics lower than most desktops at sub 40db for a quiet desktop environment.
• Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures: Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA):The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.
• PCI Express 2.0 Compliant: Doubles the data transfer rate up to 5 GT/sec per lane for an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8 GB/sec in each direction).

SPECIFICATIONS

• Physical dimensions: ATX form factor, 4.36 inches x 10.5 inches, dual slot
• Frame buffer memory: 4GB GDDR3
• Memory interface: 512-bit
• Memory bandwidth: 102GB/sec
• Maximum power consumption: 189W
• Graphics bus: PCI Express Gen 2 x16
• Display connectors: DVI-I + DVI-I + DP + ST
• Dual-link DVI: Yes (2)
• DisplayPort: Yes (1)
• Auxiliary power connectors: Yes (2), one 8-pin and one 6-pin
• Number of slots: 2
• Thermal solution: Active fansink
• Genlock/Framelock: Optional (standard with PNY PN VCQFX5800G-PCIE-PB)
• SDI: Optional (standard with PNY PN VCQFX5800SDI-PCIE-PB)
• NVIDIA SLI™ technology: Yes
• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY Architecture
  • 128-bit color precision
  • Unlimited fragment instruction
  • Unlimited vertex instruction
  • 3D volumetric texture support
  • Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
  • Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
  • Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
  • Hardware accelerated clipping planes
  • 3rd generation occlusion culling
  • Window ID clipping functionality
  • Hardware accelerated line stippling
• Shading Architecture
  • Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 2.1/DirectX 10 class)
  • Long fragment programs (unlimited instructions)
  • Long vertex programs (unlimited instructions)
  • Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
  • Dynamic flow control
  • Conditional execution
• High Level Shader Languages
  • Optimized complier for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
  • OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 10 support
  • Open source compiler
• High-Resolution Antialiasing
  • Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
  • 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies" at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
  • 64x FSAA SLI mode
• Display Resolution Support
  • Single DisplayPort support – ultra high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600)
  • Dual dual-link DVI-I outputs drive two digital displays at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz
  • Internal 400MHz DACs drive two analog displays up to 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz
• NVIEW Architecture
  • Advanced multi-display desktop and application management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Windows
• Supported Platforms
  • Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ (64-bit and 32-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
  • Linux® – full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
  • Solaris®
  • AMD64, Intel EM64T
  • PCI Express 2.0 support
• Manufacturerft s Lifetime Warranty

INCLUDED ITEMS

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY graphics board
• Two DVI-I to VGA adapters
• Two auxiliary power connector cables
• Drivers for Windows XP and Vista (Linux available on web)
• Detailed Installation Guide
• QuickStart Installation Guide
• Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)

REQUIREMENTS

• PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Opteron® class processor or higher
• Open PCI Express x16 lane slot with open adjacent slot
• Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Linux, or Solaris
• 1GB system memory minimum
• 100MB of available disk space for full installation
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• VGA, DVI-I or DisplayPort compatible display