Quadro FX 5800

The Quadro® FX 5800 ultra-high-end solution gives geophysicists, designers, scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals visual supercomputing from their desktops. Professional applications take advantage of the advanced feature set of the Quadro FX 5800, including 4GB of frame buffer, providing professionals with the right set of tools to deliver results that push visualization beyond traditional 3D.

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Enables visualization and interactivity of large scale models Industry’s first 4 GB graphics memory and broad color definition, that is orders of magnitude higher than typical solutions, allows for interactive 4D modeling.

Visual supercomputing right on your workstation Single solution that combines high-performance graphics and high-performance computation for interactive analysis of complex, multivariate data.

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Cross-Platform and Cross-Industry Visual Computing Solutions NVIDIA offers advanced industry solutions designed for professionals needing enhanced visualization capabilities, including the integrated Quadro Digital Video Pipeline and Quadro G-Sync solution.

• 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
  Enables sophisticated mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.
• 64-Bit Floating Point Precision
  Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 64-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
• 4GB GDDR3 GPU Memory with ultra fast memory bandwidth
  Industry’s first 4GB GPU Memory and massive memory bandwidth up to 102GB/sec. 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.
• Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
  Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language for OpenGL that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. Quadro 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.
• Essential for Microsoft® Windows Vista®
  Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Windows Vista experience.
• Fast 3D Texture Transfer
  Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset.
• Frame Synchronization
  Allows the display channels from multiple workstations to be synchronized, thus creating one large "virtual display" that can be driven by a multisystem cluster for performance scalability.
• Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
  Up to 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in highly realistic scenes.
• External Synchronization
  Also known as "house sync." External Synchronization allows the graphics output to synchronized to an external source, typically for film and broadcast video applications.
• NVIDIA ® CUDA™
  A C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing and interactive volume rendering.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
  Up to 2.4GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput.
• 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
  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 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
  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.
• 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.
• NVIDIA® nView® Multi-Display Technology
  The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are designed to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing.
• PCI Express Certified
  PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
• Professional 3D Stereo Solutions
  Enables robust control of stereo effect through a dedicated 3-pin mini-din connection between the graphics card and 3D stereo hardware.
• Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
  The rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, reducing “jaggies” while maintaining performance.
• NVIDIA® SLI® Technology
  A revolutionary platform innovation that enables professional users to dynamically scale graphics performance, enhance image quality, and expand display real estate.
• 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.
• Single DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
  DisplayPort support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600)-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.
• Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
  Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• NVIDIA® Multi-OS
  NVIDIA Multi OS allows a user to run multiple Windows or Linux workstation applications from a single system, with each Operating System directly assigned to a Quadro graphics solution. Only available on NVIDIA Multi-OS certified platforms.
• Cross-Platform and Cross-Industry Visual Computing Solutions
  NVIDIA offers advanced industry solutions designed for professionals needing enhanced visualization capabilities, including the integrated Quadro Digital Video Pipeline and Quadro G-Sync solution.

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