THE DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE


THE DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE. THE STANDARD FOR QUALITY.


The NVIDIA Quadro FX family of professional GPU's (graphics processing units) delivers fast application performance and the highest quality professional 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.

NVIDIA QUADRO FX ARCHITECTURE ACHIEVES UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE
Takes application performance to new levels by featuring three parallel vertex engines, a radically new line engine, the industry's first on-chip vertex cache, and eight fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to a high-speed DDR graphics DRAM bus.

ADVANCED PROGRAMMABILITY EMPOWERS A NEW CLASS OF APPLICATIONS
The programmability of the NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture empowers the industry's leading OpenGL® and DirectX® workstation applications to now make the production rendering process an integral part of real-time design. This reduces design cycles, increases productivity, and accelerates time-to-market.

FULL 128-BIT FLOATING-POINT PRECISION DELIVERS THE INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST WORKSTATION QUALITY
The NVIDIA Quadro FX, features 128-bit IEEE floating-point precision, making available millions of colors in a broad dynamic range. This results in the highest level of accuracy and the ultimate in visual quality.

CERTIFIED FOR THE HIGHEST QUALITY EXPERIENCE WITH THE MOST DEMANDING WORKSTATION APPLICATIONS
The performance and power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are built on a solid foundation of quality engineering. This engineering excellence is exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications.

PERFORMANCE FEATURES
DVI-I output will drive digital display at 1600 x1200
Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline
12-bit subpixel precision
Hardware accelerated antialiased points & lines
High-speed 128MB DDR memory
Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 2.0/DirectX 9.0 class)
Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
3rd-generation occlusion culling
DVI-I and VGA Connector
AGP 8X with Fast Write
ATX Form Factor
Window ID Clipping Functionality

PACKAGE CONTAINS
NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 AGP Graphics Card
DRIVERS CD-ROM

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
IBM or 100% PC compatible with genuine
Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon class
processor or higher
One available AGP 2.0 compliant slot or better
350W Power Supply
128MB system memory
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
Windows XP, 2000 or Windows NT4.0 (Service Pack 5 or 6)
20MB of available disk space for full installation
VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor