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1 QUADRO FX 580. NVIDIA QUADRO FX 580. DATASHEET. Big on performance . easy on your budget . To maintain maximum productivity, design professionals have had to sacrifice PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS. their ability to interact with intuitive and realistic 3D designs, relying on FORM FACTOR. >> H x L Single Slot simplified representations. Frame Buffer Memory >> 512 MB GDDR3. As a result, design decisions are often made The entire QUADRO family takes the leading Memory Interface based on less precise information. Today, professional applications to a new level of >> 128-bit DCC and CAD software vendors, such as interactivity by enabling unprecedented Memory Bandwidth Autodesk, are shifting their applications to capabilities in programmability and precision.

2 >> GBps incorporate the addition of 3D features into The industry's leading workstation applications Max Power Consumption >> 40W. previously 2D applications, making it more leverage this architecture to enable hardware- critical for professionals to future proof their accelerated features, performance , and Graphics Bus >> PCI Express Gen 2 x16. platform. The QUADRO FX 580 entry-level quality not found in any other professional Display Connectors professional-class GPU enables designers to graphics solutions. From QUADRO FX 5800 >> 2 DisplayPorts, 1 Dual Link DVI. leverage the 3D capabilities of applications at the ultra-high-end, and QUADRO FX 4800. Dual Link DVI to create and interact with more complex and 3800 at the high-end, through QUADRO >> Yes (1).

3 Product designs, achieving maximum FX 1800 at the mid-range, to QUADRO FX Number of Slots productivity without sacrificing visual quality. 580, 380, and 370 Low Profile at the entry- >> 1. level, QUADRO delivers the productivity you Thermal Solution Big on performance and easy on your >> Variable speed active fansink need at every price point and form factor. budget , QUADRO FX 580 offers the best value, professional-class graphics solution. Enabling EnergyStar compliance, QUADRO FX 580 provides extreme power efficiency from a solution with 30-bit color fidelity. Certified on all industry- leading applications and featuring automatic configuration of display settings, QUADRO FX 580.

4 Delivers optimal performance for maximum productivity. Image Courtesy of: AutoDesk, Modo image created by Muharraqi-Studios (Khalid Al-muharraqi), and NVIDIA Corporation. QUADRO FX 580 | DATASHEET | MAR09 | FINAL. NVIDIA QUADRO FX 580. Features Benefits 512 MB GDDR3 GPU Memory with Delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and Ultra-Fast Memory Bandwidth high- performance for real time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing (FSAA). 30-Bit Color Fidelity 30-Bit color fidelity (10 bits per color) enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.

5 NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture Industry's first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance . NVIDIA CUDA Architecture NVIDIA CUDA is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for QUADRO professional GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as video encoding, image processing, and accurate physics. PCI Express Compliant Doubles the data transfer rate up to 5 GT/sec per lane for an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8 GB/sec in each direction). Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600), which results in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

6 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS. SUPPORTED PLATFORMS >> Hardware-accelerated, two-sided lighting HIGH-RESOLUTION ANTIALIASING. >> Microsoft Windows Vista >> Hardware-accelerated clipping planes >> Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (64-bit and 32-bit) >> 3rd-generation occlusion culling (RG FSAA). >> Microsoft Windows XP >> Window ID clipping functionality >> 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual (64-bit and 32-bit) >> Hardware-accelerated line stippling aliasing artifacts or jaggies at >> Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit) resolution up to 1920 x 1200. >> Linux - Full OpenGL implementation, SHADING ARCHITECTURE. complete with NVIDIA and ARB DISPLAY RESOLUTION SUPPORT.

7 >> Full Shader Model extensions (64-bit and 32-bit) (OpenGL 10 class) >> Dual DisplayPort support ultra- >> Solaris >> Long fragment programs high resolution panels (up >> AMD64, Intel EM64T (unlimited instructions) to 2560 x 1600 >> PCI Express Support >> Long vertex programs >> Single dual-link DVI-I output drives (unlimited instructions) digital displays at resolutions up to NVIDIA QUADRO FX 580 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz >> Looping and subroutines (up to 256. ARCHITECTURE loops per vertex program) >> Internal 400 MHz DACs One analog display up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz >> 128-bit color precision >> Dynamic flow control >> 10-bit per color display pipeline >> Conditional execution NVIEW ARCHITECTURE.)

8 >> Unlimited fragment instruction HIGH LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGES >> The nView Display Management >> Unlimited vertex instruction Software, seamlessly integrated into >> 3D volumetric texture support >> Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft Windows, delivers maximum >> Hardware-accelerated, antialiased Microsoft HLSL flexibility and productivity for single points & lines >> OpenGL and DirectX 10 support large display or multi-display setups >> Hardware OpenGL overlay planes >> Open source compiler To learn more about NVIDIA QUADRO , go to 2009 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA , the NVIDIA logo, NVIDIA QUADRO , CUDA, and SLI are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.

9 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.