Additional Info
  • Quadro2 Pro Performance

    With record-setting fill rate and geometry processing power, Quadro2 Pro is the power user's choice for running the most demanding workstation applications.

  • NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)

    Brings natural material properties (smoke, clouds, water, cloth, plastic, etc) to life via advanced per-pixel shading capabilities in a single pass.

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Quadro2 Pro

 

 The Workstation GPU


The robust and full-featured NVIDIA Quadro®2 Pro delivers unprecedented 3D and 2D performance for the engineering professional. With its 1.0G pixels/sec rendering power and 31M triangles/sec geometry processing power, the NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro is the professional's choice for any design environment.
The NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro includes a hardware antialiased line engine, 6.4GB/sec bandwidth enabling work in fully textured mode while achieving real-time frame rates, and a 64MB unified frame buffer—providing ample room for high-resolution, 32bpp textures.


Graphics Core:
Triangles per Second:
Pixels Per Second:
Memory Bandwidth:
256-bit
31 Million
1.0 Billion
6.4 GB/s

Key Features

Performance
NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro delivers robust graphics power. With record-setting fill rate and geometry processing power, Quadro2 Pro is the power user's choice for running the most demanding workstation applications.
NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
The NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR) combined with the blazing fill rate of an NVIDIA GPU, delivers incomparable resolution and accuracy. Complex scenes are now rich with detail. Features such as per-pixel bump mapping can be utilized to a more dramatic visual effect.

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NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro Powers Top Systems in Cadalyst Magazine Review
SANTA CLARA, CA — AUGUST 8, 2001 — NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that systems equipped with its Quadro™2 Pro workstation graphics solutions swept the review of dual-processor workstations appearing in the August 2001 issue of Cadalyst Magazine, one of the leading publications for the computer-aided design (CAD) industry. In the article, entitled “Dual Processors Deliver”, the Xi® Computer Corporation Xi 2400 MTower™ MP was one of two systems featuring the Quadro2 Pro that received a perfect five-star rating and was awarded the Cadaylst Labs Highly Recommended Award. The complete article can be viewed at http://www.cadalyst.com/reviews/hardware/0801wkstn/index.htm.