Quadro FX 380

Get a 50% performance boost over previous generations with the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 380, the professional graphics solution offered at an affordable price.

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Digital artists and designers can now create stunning 3D designs from a professional platform. Enabling EnergyStar compliance, Quadro FX 380 provides extreme power efficiency to save you money. Certified on all industry-leading applications and featuring automatic configuration of display settings, Quadro FX 380 provides both power efficiency and performance.

50% Higher Performance at an Affordable Price*
Interact with your data much faster with 250% increase in memory bandwidth reducing the need to switch to wire frame during zooming, panning, spinning, and orientation. Up to 900% faster performance in industry-leading CAD applications versus consumer graphics.**

NVIDIA Application Configuration Engine (ACE)
Automatically adjusts graphics settings for optimized application performance from the start, minimizing time wasted by manually adjusting settings.

CUDA Parallel Computing 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.

Modo image created by Muharraqi-Studios (Khalid Al-muharraqi)

Power Efficiency for Reduced Cost
Power saving techniques enables EnergyStar compliant workstations to efficiently manage power consumption, without sacrificing performance.

Designed, Tested, and Built by NVIDIA
Meets ultra high standards of quality assurance for reduced system downtime.

* Based on Quadro FX 380 SPECviewperf® 10 Weighted Geometric Mean
** Based on Autodesk AutoCAD 3D Hidden visual style graphics benchmark

128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. Sets new standards for image clarity and quality in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
256 MB GDDR3 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).
Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
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.
Essential for Windows Vista
Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Microsoft® Windows Vista® experience.
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.
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
Quadro FX GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs. Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.
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 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.
NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology
The ultimate high-definition movie experience on your PC by combining high-definition movie decode acceleration and post-processing on HDCP enabled platform, HDCP circuitry, and integration with HD movie players. It delivers superb picture quality for all video formats, as well as stunning HD DVD and Blu-ray movies—with low CPU utilization and power consumption.
NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
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.
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).
OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support
OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo offers professional applications the capability of smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience.
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.
Ultra quiet design
Engineered to deliver high performance with low acoustics for a quiet desktop environment.
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	256 MB GDDR3
Memory Interface	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	22.4

Dual Link DVI-I	2
# of Digital Outputs	2
# of Analog Outputs	2
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @ 60Hz	2560x1600

EnergyStar Enabling	Yes
Maximum Power Consumption	34W
Relative Performance Score	39.75

Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.0
Microsoft DirectX	10
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture
NVIEW Display Management Software
FSAA (maximum)	16x

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