Quadro FX 1800M

Experience phenomenal graphics performance on your 15.6” mobile workstation with the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 1800M professional graphics solution.

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Quadro FX 1800M is the preferred professional graphics solution for 15.6” mobile workstations. Featuring the NVIDIA® CUDA™ architecture, 30-bit color accuracy, and certified for the most demanding CAD and DCC professional applications, Quadro FX 1800M GPUs deliver a power efficient, phenomenal visual experience for users on the go.

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Huge Performance for Leading Manufacturing and Design Companies
Quadro FX mobile solutions are the ideal performance graphics engines for 15.6” mobile workstation platforms, and are requested by manufacturing and design companies worldwide.

Built for Professionals™ to Maximize AutoCAD Productivity
NVIDIA and Autodesk deliver a certified hardware-software solution enabling professionals to create and interact with complex product designs without sacrificing visual quality. Learn More.

Stable, Compatible, and Optimized for Professional Applications
Quadro solutions are designed, tested, and built by NVIDIA to meet ultra high standards of quality assurance, and are certified for the most demanding CAD professional applications using:

OpenGL 3.2
Shader Model 4.0
Microsoft DirectX 10.1
DirectCompute
OpenCL

Extended Battery Life
NVIDIA PowerMizer™ 9.0 intelligent power management technology extends battery life and delivers optimal performance.

NVIDIA® CUDA™ Parallel Computing Architecture
Featuring 72 CUDA cores, Quadro FX 1800M combines high-performance graphics and high-performance computation providing professionals with remarkable performance in areas such as video encoding, image processing, and accurate physics.

CUDA Architecture
NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for Quadro® professional GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as video encoding, image processing, and accurate physics.
NVIDIA GPU Unified Architecture
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized application performance.
DDR3 GPU Memory with ultra fast memory bandwidth
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).
DisplayPort Digital Display
DisplayPort supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) with 30-bit color, which result in amazing image quality utilizing a palette of over one billion colors.
HDMI Support
Enables transport of video and audio to HDTV’s and other HDMI capable devices (via HDMI adaptor).
30-Bit Color Fidelity
30-bit color fidelity (10-bits per color) enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.
3D Vision Support
Visualize the stereoscopic presentation of Quad Buffered OpenGL applications with NVIDIA® 3D™ Vision glasses and supported displays.
Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
NVIDIA® PowerMizer® 9.0 Technology
The ninth generation of NVIDIA’s advanced hardware power management technology intelligently adapts to the user’s need for longer battery life and improved performance by reducing notebook power consumption and heat generation for the graphics subsystem.
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).
Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 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. This represents a key enabler for the creation of real-time, photo-realistic visuals within CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
Microsoft Windows 7 Support
Windows 7 is the next generation operating system that will mark a dramatic improvement in the way the OS takes advantage of the graphics processing unit (GPU) to provide a more compelling user experience. By taking advantage of the GPU for both graphics and computing, Windows 7 will not only make today’s PCs more visual and more interactive but also ensure that they have the speed and responsiveness customers want.
Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in highly realistic scenes.
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.
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.
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 DirectCompute 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 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.
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.
PureVideo HD Technology
NVIDIA® 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.
nView Multi-Display Technology
The NVIDIA® nView™ Advanced Display Software delivers maximum flexibility for single-large display or multi-display options, providing unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience for increased productivity.
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.

Main | Features

Memory Size Total	1 GB DDR3/GDDR5
Memory Interface	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	25.6-35.2

EnergyStar Enabling	Yes (3.8W)
Maximum Power Consumption	Up to 45W
PowerMizer Power Management	9.0

Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.2
Microsoft DirectX	10.1
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture
NVIEW Display Management Software
FSAA (maximum)	16x

CUDA Cores	72
Form Factor	15.6”

Quadro FX 1800M

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