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NVIDIA Quadro | 

The Definition of Performance. The Standard for Quality.

To learn more about NVIDIA Quadro, go to 

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of NVIDIA Corporation. All company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners with which they are associated. Features, 
pricing, availability, and specifications are all subject to change without notice. 

NVIDIA

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 Unified Architecture

Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate geometry, shading, pixel, 
and compute processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance

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.

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. 

Fast 3D Textures

Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of  
large volumetric dataset

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High Performance Display Outputs

Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz), 
which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

nView

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 Multi-Display Technology

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The NVIDIA nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility 
for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the  
desktop experience. 

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.

Product Specifications

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS

Microsoft

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 Windows Vista

  

(64-bit and 32-bit)
Microsoft Windows

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 XP (64-bit and 32-bit)

Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
Linux

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 - Full OpenGL

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 implementation, 

complete with NVIDIA and ARB  
extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
Solaris

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AMD64, Intel EM64T 

NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1700 
ARCHITECTURE

128-bit color precision
Unlimited fragment instruction
Unlimited vertex instruction
3D volumetric texture support
12 pixels per clock rendering engine
Hardware accelerated antialiased  
points & 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

Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 2.1/ 
DirectX 10 class)
Long fragment programs (unlimited 
instructions)
Long vertex programs (unlimited 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 2.1 and DirectX 10 support
Open source compiler

HIGH-RESOLUTION ANTIALIASING

Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing  
(RG FSAA)
32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual  
aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in 
highly realistic scenes

DISPLAY RESOLUTION SUPPORT

Dual-link DVI-I outputs drive two digital 
displays at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600  
@ 60Hz
Internal 400 MHz DACs – Two analog displays 
up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz

   

     

Features and Benefits

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nView will be available for Windows Vista Spring 2008

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