Quadro CX

Creativity is not just your passion, it’s your business. You are always under pressure to deliver more amazing content while working under tight deadlines. Now you can. The NVIDIA® Quadro® CX is the accelerator for Adobe® Creative Suite® 4—giving you the ability to create rich, stunning content in a faster, smoother, and more interactive way.

Up to 4X Faster H.264 Video Encoding

A Faster Way to Work Don’t sacrifice creativity to meet a deadline. Encode H.264 video up to 4X faster with the NVIDIA® CUDA™-enabled plug-in for Adobe® Premiere Pro CS4*. This time savings means instead of encoding Blu-ray DVDs overnight you can now do it in a few hours during the day. Plus, accelerate rendering time for advanced effects such as transformations, color correction, depth of field blur, turbulent noise, and more. To learn more about the CUDA-enabled video encoder click here.

A Better Way to Work Your tools are key to your success. Experience fluid interaction with the Adobe Photoshop® canvas for smoother zooming and image rotation. Accurately see what your deliverable will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output**. Easily work across multiple displays with NVIDIA® nView® advanced management tools for a smoother production pipeline***.

A More Reliable Way to Work You can’t afford system downtime. Quadro CX is engineered and optimized by NVIDIA to deliver exceptional performance when you need it. Quadro CX is also designed and optimized for Creative Suite 4. Plus, additional free plug-ins will deliver ongoing feature and performance improvements to protect your investment.

*Exclusive CUDA-based RapiHD Accelerator is developed by Elemental Technologies and only included with Quadro CX.

**Quadro CX hardware is capable of native 30-bit color DisplayPort output; SDI capability via optional Quadro SDI board and application plug-ins.

***Supported only on Windows XP

NVIDIA Quadro CX Accelerates Adobe CS4 Up to 11.
Along with their 9600M GT card for portables announcement with the MacBook Pro, NVIDIA has also announced their new NVIDIA Quadro CX. The $1,999 PCIe card, which according to them has been "specifically designed and optimized the Quadro CX to enhance the performance of Adobe Creative Suite 4", will accelerate all most common operations in Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and H.264 encoding.

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So.. a lot of what you are hearing about CS4 is how many of the applications are taking advantage of the GPU. It definitely says something more when the software happens to be running on their cards. Take a look at the NVIDIA website for a very good overview on how their technology is going to let you really open up the CS4 experience. A very exciting week for them indeed.. Congrats! Let me know where I can send you this laptop for a trade in.

NVIDIA Quadro CX for Quicker Adobe Software
NVIDIA, a leading player in visual computing technologies, is offering its new accelerator NVIDIA Quadro CX for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software. The new GPU aims to provide a faster computing option to developers. Quadro CX is designed to deliver better performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. It’s now available from leading resellers and retailers, for $1,999.

NVIDIA launches graphics accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4
The Quadro CX graphics accelerator plugs into the PCI slot of your PC, and will significantly improve the performance of CS4. The new hardware will increase rendering time, which is used in the advanced effects, this will then allow you to accurately preview what a video will look like with 0-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output.

NVIDIA Intros Quadro CX
After announcing its latest motherboard GPU, the green company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA, introduced just recently its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the new Quadro CX. According to the company, the new GPU has been designed to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4.

A graphics card just for Photoshop
Both NVIDIA and AMD are waiting for compelling GPGPU applications, software than takes advantage of their GPU architectures to achieve visible levels of acceleration through multi-threading. Photoshop and Premiere are the first widely used non-industrial and non-scientific applications that integrate such capability and we recently confirmed that graphics cards in fact do provide impressive performance improvements in Photoshop CS4. So it is not really surprising that NVIDIA follows up with a dedicated product to support these claims. The company just announced the Quadro CX, a workstation-class graphics card that promises “the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4.”

NVIDIA Quadro CX accelerates Adobe Photoshop CS4
NVIDIA has unveiled a new workstation graphics card that's designed to accelerate Adobe Creative Suite 4. The new NVIDIA Quadro CX enables real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to the view instantaneous and smooth. The GPU is also used for several effects, such as 3D movement, HDR tone mapping, and color conversion. The card features 192 cores, 384-bit memory interface, 1.5GB GDDR3 memory, memory bandwidth of 76.8GB/s and a max. power consumption of 150W.

NVIDIA Quadro CX boosts Adobe CS4
Following closely on the heels of Adobe's Creative Suite 4 release, NVIDIA on Thursday unveiled the Quadro CX, offering users an optimized GPU for the new software suite's explicit use of the graphics hardware. The Quadro CX is designed to help produce visual effects within Adobe Photoshop CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4, and several other of the suite's applications. NVIDIA claims the card offers users a "dramatically fast and fluid experience."

NVIDIA's Quadro CX GPU optimized for people who don't suck at Photoshop
Check it Donnie, NVIDIA just launched its Quadro CX accelerator card for Adobe's Creative Suite 4. The optimized GPU fits into your PC's PCIe slot to smooth image navigation and manipulation in Photoshop while accelerating effects in Adobe's After Effects and Premier Pro. NVIDIA claims that the new GPU helps encode H.264 video at "lightning-fast speeds" when using NVIDIA's Cuda-enabled CS4 plug-in while giving professionals accurate video previews with uncompressed 30-bit color or 10-/12-bit SDI (for professional video equipment) before final output. The Quadro CX features a 1.5GB (GDDR3) frame buffer and 76.8GBps memory bandwidth with dual-DisplayPort connectors (up to 2560 x 1600 pixels) and a single dual-link DVI with support for panels up to 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz. Look, we know this sounds all stupid-hard advanced to those of you using Photoshop to hotten-up your Facebook pic, but the pros are going to love it. $1,999 and available today -- video demonstration just beyond the read link

NVIDIA Quadro CX
NVIDIA announced it’s anticipated Quadro CX card today. The Quadro CX is designed to work with Adobe Creative Suite, accelerating its overall performance. You’re going to see a major real-time performance boost with this puppy, especially when jumping to 1.5GB of GDDR3. The card retails at about $2000 and drivers are currently only available for Windows, hopefully Mac isn’t far behind.

NVIDIA does graphics card for Adobe
NVIDIA is sticking with its GP-GPU program and its latest addition to its range of professional graphics cards is the Quadro CX which offers GPU acceleration for the Adobe's new Creative Suite 4. The Quadro CX seems to be using a Geforce GTX 260 GPU, as it has 192 CUDA parallel processors cores as NVIDIA likes to call the Shaders in this instance.

New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream
NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the NVIDIA Quadro CX. The Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you have $2,000 you can take your Photoshop experience to completely new level.

NVIDIA UNVEILS GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR FOR ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
NVIDIA on Thursday launched a graphics accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4, giving professionals the option of higher performance when adding graphics and visual effects to video. The release of Quadro CX comes a day after NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 9400M, a graphics processor for notebooks. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs this week praised the performance of the GPU in announcing that it would be in Apple's new MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air. The announcement was a big win for NVIDIA, whose product was chosen over Intel's integrated graphics chipset. *********** Apple's decision to choose NVIDIA over Intel reflects the heated competition among chipmakers in the growing use of graphics in PCs. The third major competitor in the market is Advanced Micro Devices' ATI division.

NVIDIA Quadro CX launched for Adobe Creative Suite users
Adobe has just launched their latest product suite Adobe Creative Suite 4. NVIDIA has now announced the launch of their Quadro CX graphics accelerator which is aimed at the users of this application suite. NVIDIA said that this hardware add-on would enable the professionals to get improved performance from the Adobe’s Creative Suite.

NVIDIA Quadro CX: Adobe CS4-specific GPU
Heavy users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 will know that the only thing worse than a hangover for slowing the design process is a computer unable to keep up. CS4 feasts on processor cycles like supermodels crave bacon; thankfully here’s NVIDIA to the rescue with their Quadro CX, a PCI-E card dedicated to giving the graphics software all the grunt it needs.

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The GPU has come of age and is no longer something that titillates hoards of gamers with promises of better video game graphics alone. Today the GPU can do many things from being used as a super computing platform to greatly accelerating many applications more efficiently than a CPU can. One of the biggest new features in Adobe Creative Suite 4 introduced not so long ago was the ability for the software to take advantage of the power of the GPU for faster processing and applying of things like filters. NVIDIA has announced a new GPU-based product called the Quadro CX that is designed specifically to accelerate Creative Suite 4.

NVIDIA Releases Quadro CX GPU - Optimized for Creative Suite 4
Well, for more proof that NVIDIA is taking things seriously, they've launched a new Quadro model that's touted as being the "ultimate" GPU for use with CS4. Compared to the desktop GPUs, the Quadro CX seems most comparable to the GTX 260, with 192 processors, but that's where the similarities end. The new card features 1.5GB of GDDR3 with a 384-bit memory bus (the GTX 260/280 have 448-bit), as well as a smaller TDP of 150W.

NVIDIA introduces graphics accelerator for Creative Suite
NVIDIA (Nasdaq:NVDA), a specialist in visual computing technologies, today (16 October) introduced the NVIDIA Quadro CX GPU, which is designed to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimised features of Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4).

Adobe Creative Suite Users Get NVIDIA Present
Does that sound like a lot of horsepower for Photoshop and Premiere Pro? There’s never too much power when manipulating hi-res artwork and video. “A critical element of CS4 was to capture the enormous power of the GPU,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “The difference is astounding. Performance is important to creative professionals and with the NVIDIA GPU, they are assured to be able to interact with images and videos in a much faster, smoother, more engaging way.”

NVIDIA Releases Quadro CX for CS4 Acceleration
NVIDIA has just released it’s new Quadro CX graphics card. It’s been designed in conjunction with Adobe to specifically accelerate certain features of the recently announced CS4 suite. I attended an online demo yesterday and the technology involved looked very impressive.

Video Card Review: NVIDIA Quadro CX Video Card
NVIDIA's Quadro CX card, like other Quadro cards, is designed and built by NVIDIA. The intent is to guarantee consistency, performance and value-even when marketed by third-party partners. This strategy is in contrast to NVIDIA's GeForce line of cards, where NVIDIA's partners build their own cards based around NVIDIA's chipsets.

CreativeCow Podcast - Episode #061


Videomaker - Review: Polywell's Adobe Optimized Video Editing Computer
Polywell has just put together a video editor's dream machine with the new NVIDIA Quadro CX.To top it off the unit comes with the Quadro CX card, the must-have for video editing.

Videomaker - Review: NVIDIA Quadro CX Video Card
If you are a serious Photoshop or After Effects user, you'll want this card - no doubt about it.

Digital Content Producer - Test Drive: NVIDIA Quadro CX and Adobe CS4, Part 2
NVIDIA became my graphics vendor of choice back in the late 1990s, and in my view, no graphics-card vendor can match its performance, affordability, and most importantly, stability.

HD4PC - The NVIDIA Quadro CX with Adobe’s CS4 Suite
If you are in the market for a new high end GPU, the Quadro CX has all of the processing power that most people could possibly need. At its currently available price of about $1800, it has directly replaced the Quadro FX 4600, and no question is a superior product.

Broadcast Engineering - Maingear launches Remix workstation
By integrating the NVIDIA Quadro CX, Remix offers a fast creative workstation optimized for Adobe Creative Suite 4. Remix offers H.264 video encoding, which is up to four times faster with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Hardwarezone - Review: CUDA for Professionals - NVIDIA's Newest Quadro GPUs
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 users however will have no reason not to choose the Quadro CX now.

PC Magazine - Build It: The Ultimate Adobe CS4 Machine
But to the heavy CS4 user, the Quadro CX is worth every penny—it acts as a finely tuned accelerator for Photoshop and Premiere.