Quadro NVS 420

Drive up to four 30’’ displays at 2560x1600 resolution with the NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 420 - the low profile business graphics card designed for small form factor systems.

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The NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 420 quad-display business graphics solution, designed for small form factor systems, delivers reliable hardware and software for a stable business environment. Tested on leading business applications, Quadro NVS 420 is capable of driving up to four 30’’ displays at 2560x1600 resolution and is designed to meet the needs of today’s most demanding business user.

Quad display graphics designed for small form factor (SFF) systems
Drive up to four 30’ displays at 2560x1600 resolutions from a small form factor desktop system with a single graphics card

Reliable hardware and software platform
Extensive product development and tested for compatibility with industry-leading business applications ensures reliable system performance

Robust IT management tools for easy deployment and maintenance
Profile user settings enable all display and applications to be easily copied and ghosted over multiple systems

Multi-display graphics solution compatible with the latest business applications
Quadro NVS 420 along with NVIDIA® nView® display software allows users to spread their work across multiple high resolution (up to 2560x1600) displays and maximize productivity through advanced desktop and application management features

nView Advanced-Display Software
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.
NVIDIA GPU Unified Architecture
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate GPU resources to deliver optimized performance.
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Part of the NVIDIA Forceware unified software environment (USE). The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because the latest driver supports all current NVIDIA products. (NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 280 PCI is supported on a separate stable image branch driver).
Quad DisplayPort
Capable of driving quad ultra high resolution displays at 2560x1600.
Ultimate Image Quality
Quadro NVS graphics products deliver the industry’s best image quality, sharpness and pixel tracking for analog LCDs, DLPs and plasma displays.
Low-Profile Form Factor
Enable quad ultra high resolution display support on small form factor systems.
EnergyStar Compliant Design
Enables EnergyStar compliance with low maximum and low idle power levels.
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).
Integrated TMDS Transmitters
Enable support for the latest digital flat panel (DFP) displays.
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 a smooth Microsoft® Windows Vista® experience.
NVIDIA® CUDA™ Parallel Computing Processor
16 CUDA parallel computing cores compatible with all CUDA accelerated applications.
Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
PureVideo 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.

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Memory Size Total	512 MB ( 256MB per GPU )
Memory Interface	128-bit ( 64-bit per GPU )
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	11.2 GB/s per GPU

DisplayPort**	4
Single Link DVI-D *	4
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @ 60Hz	2560x1600***
Active Display Channels	VHDCI (1)

Shader Model	4.0
OpenGL	3.0
Microsoft DirectX	10
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture

CUDA Cores	16
Form Factor	Small Form Factor

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