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Introduction: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

About the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 Solution • Key Features & Benefits • Feature Details

About the NVIDIA Quadro FX Solution

The NVIDIA^® Quadro^® FX family of professional GPUs (graphics processing units) delivers fast application performance and the highest quality workstation graphics. In addition to performance and quality, NVIDIA Quadro FX takes the leading computer-aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling unprecedented capabilities in programmability and precision. NVIDIA Quadro FX allows styling and production rendering to become integral functions of the design workflow, thereby shortening the production process and enabling faster time to market.

Key Features and Benefits

Fifth-Generation Workstation Graphics Architecture. The NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture takes application performance to new levels by featuring three parallel vertex engines, a radically new line engine, the industrys first on-chip vertex cache, and eight fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to a high-speed DDR2 graphics DRAM bus.

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.

Third-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects (such as fresnel effects, chromatic dispersion, reflection, refraction, etc.), and surface properties (such as casting effects, porosity, molded surfaces, etc.).

12-bit Subpixel Precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating sparkles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies.

16X Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or jaggies at extremely high resolutions.

High-Performance Display Outputs. 400 MHz RAMDACs and dual-DVI digital connectors are supplied to drive high resolution digital displays.

Feature Details

Operating Systems

Microsoft^® Windows^® XP

Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000

Linux^® Full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (complete XFree86™ drivers)

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Architecture

Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline

12-bit subpixel precision

8 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

OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
(Not supported by Dell)

AGP8X with Fast Writes and sideband addressing

CineFX Shading Architecture

Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL GLSLang/DirectX 9.0 class)

Long fragment programs (up to 2048 instructions)

Long vertex programs (up to 65,536 instructions)

Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)

Dynamic flow control

Conditional execution

Memory

High-speed 256 MB DDR2 memory

Advanced lossless compression algorithms (color and Z data)

High Level Shader Languages

Optimized compiler for Cg and MicrosoftHigh Level Shader Language (HLSL)

OpenGL GLSLang and DirectX 9.0 support

Open source compiler

High-Resolution Antialiasing

16x Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) up to 1920x1200 per display or 3840x2400 for a single digital display

12-bit subpixel sampling precision enhances antialiasing quality

Application Compatibility

Optimized and certified for leading workstation applications

Fully compliant with OpenGL GLSLang and DirectX 9.0
nView Architecture

Advanced multi-display desktop & application management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Windows.

Dual DVI outputdrives two independent digital displays at 1600x1200, or one at 3840x2400.

Dual-link TMDSdrives one digital display up to 1920x1200 and another at 1600x1200 simultaneously

400 MHz DACstwo analog displays up to 1920x1200 @ 85 Hz each

OpenGL stereo support for resolutions up to 3840x2400 (Not supported by Dell)

For additional technical information, see Specifications.

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