NVIDIA Quadro FX - Mid-Range Products

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NVIDIA Quadro® FX mid-range graphics products are the industry’s best price performance workstation graphics solutions providing the optimal blend of quality, precision, performance, programmability for all professional 3D applications including CAD, DCC and visualization applications.

Available solutions: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700, and Quadro FX 1500.

The latest mid-range solution, NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1700 graphics board, delivers exceptional performance, quality, and price for professionals. Featuring a revolutionary unified architecture, Quadro FX 1700 dynamically allocates geometry, shading, pixel, and compute processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance while consuming significantly less power. With a C programming environment, Quadro FX 1700 is certified on all industry-leading CAD, DCC, and visualization applications.


	Quadro FX 1700	Quadro FX 3450	Quadro FX 1500
Memory Size	512MB	256MB	256MB
Memory Interface	128-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Graphic Memory Bandwidth	12.8GB/sec.	32.0GB/sec.	40GB/sec.
Graphics Bus	PCI Express x16	PCI Express	PCI Express


	NVIDIA Unified Architecture
	Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance. Available only on Quadro FX 1700.

	GPU Computing
	NVIDIA CUDA provides a C language environment and tool suite that unleashes new capabilities to solve complex, visualization challenges such as real-time ray tracing and interactive volume rendering. Available only on Quadro FX 1700.

	Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0
	Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and ultra-realistic effects for next generation OpenGL and DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications. Available only on Quadro FX 1700.