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T5500/T7500 Tower Workstations Technical Guide
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The Dell Precision T5500/T7500 offer a range of graphics cards from entry 2D to high
performance OpenGL 3D with up to 4GB
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of graphics memory.
NVIDIA Quadro® FX series ultra high performance graphics help enable workstation
application users to enjoy excellent productivity. In addition, many workstation users can
potentially transition from a desktop platform to a mobile platform, gaining the benefit of
mobility without compromising performance.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX series PCI Express graphics solution offers hardware support, also
called hardware acceleration, for a host of OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX® 10 functions including
anti-aliased lines, two-sided lighting, overlay planes and window clipping. The NVIDIA Quadro
FX series offers a unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry,
shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance. The NVIDIA
Quadro FX series also uses a reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 enabling a high level of
performance and ultra-realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 leading
edge professional applications. These functions help enable users to be highly efficient and
productive.
Ideal for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) and simulation
markets, ATI™ FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics accelerators deliver exceptional features
and price performance. ATI FirePro 3D graphics provide the capability to store geometry inside
the card without having it pushed back to the CPU to calculate changes. This can help increase
performance of rotations with larger-scale models. Additionally, ATI FirePro 3D graphics
products incorporate unique AutoDetect technology. As users open 3D applications or move
between them, optimized ATI FirePro 3D graphics driver settings are automatically configured
to help maximize performance under a multitude of workflow demands.
The ATI FirePro V8700 workstations graphics accelerator from ATI is a high-end workstation
solution with 1GB frame buffer memory
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that comes with an extremely high number of shader
engines (800) and GDDR5 memory technology. The V8700 is available as an option on the
T7500, T5500 and T3500 workstations and is ideally suited for users who work with large
models and shader-intensive applications offering a large frame buffer for complex and large
data sets offering accurate color reproduction and superior visual quality.
Other ATI FirePro cards available as an option on all three new tower workstations include the
V5700 and the V3750.
T5500/T7500 offerings include:
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
NVIDIA NVS 295
NVIDIA NVS 420 Quad monitor graphics
ATI FirePro V8700
ATI FirePro V5700
ATI FirePro V3750
All graphics cards support dual-monitor configurations
