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Where to buy NVIDIA Quadro
NVIDIA Quadro
is available through many OEM partners. Please visit
www.nvidia.com/page/workstation.html
for the latest list of partners.
Supported Operating Systems
• Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Linux
®
– Full OpenGL
®
implementation, complete with
NVIDIA and ARB extensions
• AMD64, Intel EM64T
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
Architecture
• 128-bit color precision
• 65,536 fragment instruction
• 65,536 vertex instruction
• 3D volumetric textures
• Single-system powerwall
• 12 pixels per clock rendering engine
• Hardware accelerated antialiased
points and lines
• Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
• Hardware accelerated two-sided
lighting
• Hardware accelerated clipping planes
• 3rd-generation occlusion culling
• 16 textures per pixel in fragment
programs
• Window ID clipping functionality
• Hardware accelerated line stippling
Shading Architecture
• Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL
2.0/DirectX 9.0c class)
• Long fragment programs (up to
65,536 instructions)
• Long vertex programs (up to 65,536
instructions)
• Looping and subroutines (up to 256
loops per vertex program)
• Dynamic flow control
• Conditional execution
High Level Shader Languages
• Optimized compiler for Cg and
Microsoft
®
HLSL
• OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0c support
• Open source compiler
High-Resolution Antialiasing
• 12-bit subpixel sampling precision
enhances AA quality
• Rotated-grid full-scene antialiasing
(RG FSAA)
• 16x FSAA dramatically reduces
visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies”
at resolution up to 1920x1200
• 32x SLI FSAA mode*
Display Resolution Support
• Dual dual-link DVI-I output drives
digital displays at resolutions up to
3840x2400 @ 41Hz
• Internal 400MHz DACs – Two analog
displays up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz
each
nView Architecture
• Advanced multi-display desktop and
application management seamlessly
integrated into Microsoft Windows
* Available with future driver release
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 4500
FEATURES
BENEFITS
Highest Workstation Application
Performance
Unmatched Color Precision
Next-generation Vertex and Pixel
Programmability
Unparalleled Subpixel Precision
Hardware-Accelerated Pixel ReadBack
Rotated-Grid FSAA (Full Scene
Antialiasing)
High-Precision Dynamic-Range (HPDR)
Imaging Technology
SLI Support
Dual Dual-Link Digital Display Connector
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
Full 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
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics boards introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow
control, removing the previous limits on complexity and structure of shader programs. With full support
for Shader Model 3.0, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 delivers sophisticated effects never before imagined for
real-time graphics systems
12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating sparkles, cracks, and other
rasterization anomalies
Greater than 2.4GB/sec., pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput, more than 4x
the performance of previous generation graphics systems
RG FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly
increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, and reducing “jaggies” while maintaining
performance
Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 32-bit per component floating point capabilities
in shading, filtering, and texturing. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects
processing
Designed for PCI Express, the NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface technology enables intelligent and
transparent scaling of professional application performance
Dual-link TMDS transmitters support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840x2400 @ 24Hz)—which
result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Memory Size
Memory Interface
Relative Perf*
SLI Support
Dual-Link DVI
512MB
256 bit
3.5
Yes
Yes (2)
256MB
256 bit
2.5
Yes
Yes (1)
128MB
256 bit
1.9
Yes
-
128MB
128 bit
1.0
No
-
*based on US SPECviewperf
