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MFG Part Number:  NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE VCQFX5500SDI-PCIE-PB-Retail 3-4 day lead time

PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail

Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail by PNY Technologies is the ideal solution for on-air broadcast professionals across many applications ranging from virtual sets, sports, and weather news systems to compositing live video footage onto virtual backgrounds and sending the result to live video for TV broadcast.

Film and video pre- and post-production professionals can preview, in real-time on HD broadcast monitors, the results of 3D compositing, editing, and color grading. This graphics-to-video-out solution delivers uncompressed 12-bit SDI from programmable graphics, enabling a direct connection to broadcast monitors, tape decks, or SDI projectors.

PNY NVIDIA PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retailprovides two channels, fill or key, of 8-, 10-, or 12-bit uncompressed SDI in 2K, HD, or SD formats, and analog and digital house synchronization. It supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux and works on top of existing applications, or can be easily integrated within a broadcast or video editing application through an NVIDIA supported API.

The PNY NVIDIA PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail by PNY features a revolutionary new architecture with 2x the geometry and fill rate and 4x the hardware pixel read-back performance of previous generation products. It supports 1024MB of GDDR2 frame buffer memory, and rotated grid full scene antialiasing (RG FSAA) for increased color accuracy and visual quality of edges and lines without compromising performance.

PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail / VCQFX5500SDI-PCIE-PB

The programmable GPU architecture and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI by PNY specific graphical user interface enables configurability of: Video channels, color space conversion, and gamma correction. A video backend unit provides full support for outputs in the following 2K, HD, and SD formats through 2 video channels with support for either 2 distinct channels of fill or 1 channel of fill and 1 channel of key.

One digital and one analog genlock (BNC) connectors provide connectivity to a video sync source for SMPTE standard (digital, black burst, tri-level) synchronization.

Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry's highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and visualization applications.

Delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models and high-performance for real-time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene antialiasing (FSAA).

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 missions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity and structure of shader programs. With full support for Vertex and S hader Model 3.0, NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.

12-bit sub-pixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating rasterization anomalies.

Greater than 2.4GB/Sec., pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughout, more than 10x the performance of previous generation graphics systems.

RG 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.

Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.

NVIDIA PureVideo technology is the combination of high-definition video processors and software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for SD and HD video content. Features include high-quality scaling, spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and high quality HD video playback from DVD.

NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5500 SDI PCIE

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

• Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 2.0/DirectX 9.0C 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

• Optimized compiler for Cg, GLSL, and Microsoft HLSL
• OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0 support
• Open source compiler

• 12-bit subpixel sampling precision enhances antialiasing quality
• Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
• 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200

• One dual-link DVI outputs drives a digital display at resolutions up to 3840 x 2400 at 24Hz
• Internal 400MHz DACs drive two analog displays up to 2048 x 1536 at 75Hz

• Advanced multi-display desktop and application management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Windows

• 1 channel fill
• 8-bit RGB 4:4:4, YCrCB 4:2:2 or 4:4:4

• Extended Mode Integrated into applications using NVIDIA SDI API
• 2 channels fill or
• 1 channel fill + 1 channel key
• 8-, 10-, or 12-bit
• RGB 4:4:4
• YCrCb 4:2:2 or 4:4:4
• 2x YCrCB 4:2:2:4
• RGBA 4:4:4:4 (8-bit only)

• FX 5500 physical dimensions: ATX form factor, 4.38 inches x 9.0 inches
• SDI Option Card physical dimensions: 3.875 inches x 6.60 inches
• Maximum power consumption 102W (FX 5500 + SDI Option Card)
• Requires auxiliary power (connector cable included)
• Thermal management: Active fan sink

PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCI Express

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 by PNY graphics board
• SDI Option Card
• SDI Option Card cable kit
• DVI-I to VGA adapter
• Auxiliary power connector cable
• Drivers for Windows XP and 2000
• Detailed Installation Guide
• Quickstart Installation Guide
• Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)

• Microsoft® Windows® XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
• Linux - full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
• AMD64, Intel EM64T

• PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Athlon®/Opteron® class processor or higher
• Open PCI Express x16 lane slot for FX 5500
• Open PCI Express slot or PCI slot for SDI Option Card
• Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, or Linux
• 256MB system memory
• 50MB of available disk space for full installation
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• VGA or DVI-I compatible display
• 350W power supply

A How To set up Dual Monitors for PNY Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail

You need to make sure you have both monitors connected to your computer and powered-up before attempting to setup nView.

Here are the steps to configure multiple displays with your PNY Nvidia Quadro FX 5500 SDI PCIE Retail video card.

1. Right click on the desktop and select "Properties"
2. In the Display Properties control panel click the "Settings" tab.
3. On the bottom right corner of the window click "Advanced...".
4. In the Advanced window click the GeForce tab.
5. Click the "nView Display Modes" option.
6. You must now choose what mode you would like to setup:
7. Clone will mirror your primary display to your secondary display: This setting is good for use with a projector.
8. Horizontal Span/Vertical Span: This will stretch your display across both displays horizontally or vertically depending on what option you select.
9. Once you have selected the option you would like to use, click "Apply".
10. Windows will now ask you if you would like to keep these new settings, if you do not click "Yes" within 10 seconds the displays will default back to single monitor and you must repeat the above steps.

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