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PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 PCIE 512MB PNY Video Card VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB (OEM)

MFG Part Number:  PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 PCIE VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB OEM

Featuring the industry's broadest family of PCI Express™ products designed from the ground up with the needs of professional CAD, DCC, and Scientific Visualization applications and users in mind, NVIDIA Quadro FX ushers in a new era of unprecedented performance, programmability, precision, and quality. As the ultimate expression of this design focus the FX 4500 anchors the ultra high-end segment of the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX.

The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 architecture as expressed in the FX 4500 takes application performance to new levels by featuring an array of parallel vertex engines, a radically new line engine, and fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to a high-speed graphics DRAM bus. Pipeline efficiency is further multiplied by NVIDIA's next-generation crossbar memory architecture - enabling occlusion-culling, lossless depth Z-buffer, and color compression.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

Parallel vertex engines, programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation specific features result in the industry's highest application performance and quality.

Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects and surface properties.

Allows mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality.

3x that of the nearest competitive professional graphics products; 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies.

Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities applied to shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Provides unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing and delivers support for 32-bit floating point precision per component - an industry exclusive.

SLI allows dual GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) to significantly accelerate graphics performance. Professional users benefit by using SLI technology on twin graphics boards to span a hardware accelerated OpenGL windows across multiple displays, or to run a single application per GPU. SLI also offers dual GPU performance on a single display by utilizing the capabilities of two NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to drive it (SLI connector required).

Designed to take full advantage of the next generation PCI Express expansion bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X and delivers over 4GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfer modes.

Provides easy installation and sophisticated manageability through a single unified driver tailored for large scale system deployments. The performance and power of the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX are built on a solid foundation of quality engineering, testing, and real world solutions expertise. These strengths are exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality across the entire spectrum of CAD, DCC, and Scientific applications.

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
• PCI Express x16 form factor card
• Physical dimensions: 4.376 inches x 9.00 inches
• Power: 109W
• Memory: 512MB GDDR 3 SDRAM
• Memory interface: 256-bit
• Thermal management: Active fan sink
• External connectors: Two (2) dual link DVI-I connectors, 3-pin mini-DIN stereo connector
• Internal connectors: NVIDIA Scaleable Link Interface (SLI) 29-pin edge connector, 6-pin PCI Express power connector

• Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline
• 12-bit subpixel precision
• 8 pixels per clock rendering engine
• Hardware antialiased points and lines
• Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
• Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
• Thermal management: Active fan sink
• Hardware accelerated clipping planes
• 3rd generation occlusion culling
• 16 textures per pixel
• OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
• High-performance OpenGL hardware accelerated pixel readback
• x16 PCI Express bus interface

• Full support for Shader Model 3.0/DirectX 9.1
• Displacement mapping
• Vertex processing can access texture
• Dynamic flow control
• Branching, call and return
• Vertex frequency stream divider

• Full support for Shader Model 3.0/DirectX 9.1
• 65,536 instruction pixel shader programs - shatters PS 2.0 limit of 96
• Flow control - loops and branching
• Highest precision pixel shading - native, optimized FP32 processing
• Flexible data type support - FP32, FP16 operand formats
• Multiple render target support
• Output to 4 destination color surfaces plus 1 depth surface
• 4xFP32 per pixel, per surface

• Comprehensive OpenGL 1.5 (and earlier) support
• Full Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (and earlier) support
• DirectX and S3TC texture compression
• Programmable vertex and pixel shaders are exposed to OpenGL and Direct3D

• SLI allows dual GPUs to significantly enhance graphics performance
• SLI Multi-View allows an OpenGL hardware accelerated window to span multiple displays
• Applications can be assigned to a specific GPU under SLI Multi-View
• SLI Frame Rendering scales application performance on a single display (two PCI Express graphics boards and SLI connector required)
• SLI Frame Rendering supports Split Frame Rendering (SFR) for fill rate-limited applications and Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) for geometry-limited applications.
• Requires two identical NVIDIA Quadro FX boards (1400, 3400, 3450, 4400, 4500) and SLI connector (for SLI Frame Rendering)

• High-precision scanout - 32-bit floating point color precision per component
• 2 Integrated TMDS transmitters
• Dual internal 400MHz DAC
• Maximum VGA resolution 2048 x 1536 x 32 bpp at 85Hz
• Maximum resolution over digital port (Single GPU) 3840 x 2400 x 32 bpp at 24Hz (reduced blanking)
• Maximum resolution over digital port (SLI frame rendering mode) 2560 x 1600 x 32 bpp at 60Hz (reduced blanking)
• Supports Apple 20, 23, and 30 inch Cinema Displays, including SLI mode

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500

• PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 Video Card
• Two DVI-I to VGA adapters
• Drivers for Windows XP, 2000, and NT
• Detailed Installation Guide
• Quickstart Installation Guide
• SLI Quickstart Installation Guide
• Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)
• 6-pin power connector cable

• PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Opteron® class processor or higher
• Open PCI Express x16 lane slot
• SLI requires an open x16 electrical and mechanical slot and a second x16 mechanical slot with x16, x8, or x4 electrical capability
• SLI Frame Rendering requires optional SLI connector, PNYPN 91004732, order separately
• Microsoft Windows XP, ME, 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 (450W required for SLI)

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 Professional Certifications VCQFX4500-PCIE-PB

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics boards are extensively tested to certify the highest performance in workstation applications.

• Ansys®
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Autodesk Inventor
• Bentley Microstation®
• Co/Create™ SolidDesigner
• Dassault CATIA®
• ESRI ArcInfo
• Helix
• MSC Nastran/Patran
• Plant Designer/Imagineer
• PTC® Pro/Engineer™
• PTC 3Dpaint™
• SDRC I-DEAS® Master Series
• SolidWorks®
• UGS® Solid Edge™
• Unigraphics®

• Alias StudioTools®
• Discreet® 3ds max
• Newtek Lightwave 3D™
• SOFTIMAGE®/3D
• SOFTIMAGE/XSI
• Discreet Combustion
• Adobe After Effects
• Side Effects Houdini

• Avid Xpress®
• Adobe Premiere Pro®
• Pinnacle Liquid Edition®

A How To set up Dual Monitors for NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 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 NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 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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