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PNY Nvidia Quadro FX 580

PNY Quadro FX 580 512MB GDDR3 128-bit PCI-E 2.0 x16 Professional Video Card - VCQFX580-PCIE-PB

To maintain maximum productivity, design professionals have had to sacrifice their ability to interact with intuitive and realistic 3D designs, relying on simplified representations.

The entire Quadro family takes the leading professional applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling unprecedented capabilities in programmability and precision. The industry’s leading workstation applications leverage this architecture to enable hardware-accelerated features, performance, and quality not found in any other professional graphics solutions. From Quadro FX 5800 at the ultra-high-end, and Quadro FX 4800 and 3800 at the high-end, through Quadro FX 1800 at the mid-range, to Quadro FX 580, 380, and 370 Low Profile at the entry-level, Quadro delivers the productivity you need at every price point and form factor.

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
Entry-Level Professional Graphics Solution

Big on performance and easy on your budget, PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 offers the best value, professional-class graphics solution. Enabling EnergyStar compliance, Quadro FX 580 provides extreme power efficiency from a 30-bit color display solution.

Featuring a revolutionary unified architecture, the FX 580 dynamically allocates geometry, shading, and compute processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance. The 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer makes the FX 580 Microsoft® Vista™ ready and capable of displaying the full Windows Aero user interface. The reference standard for Shader Model 4.0, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 by PNY enables next generation ultra-realistic, realtime OpenGL and DirectX 10 applications. With a dual-link DVI connector and two DisplayPort connectors, the FX 580 offers superb image quality at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz.

30 bit-color
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.

128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. Sets new standards for image clarity and quality in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.

512 MB GDDR3 GPU Memory with ultra fast memory bandwidth
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).

Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.

Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.

Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. NVIDIA Quadro FX programmable graphics pipelines leverage high-level shading languages to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes, and designs. This represents a key enabler for the creation of real-time, photo-realistic visuals within CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.

Essential for Microsoft Windows Vista
Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA® OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Windows Vista experience.

Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in highly realistic scenes.

Hardware 3D Window Clipping
Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) which improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.

HDMI Support
Enables transport of video and audio to HDTV’s and other HDMI capable devices (via HDMI adaptor)

Highest Workstation Application Performance
Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry’s highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.

High-Performance Display Outputs
400MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market.

8K Texture and Render Processing
The ability to texture from and render to 8K x 8K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.

Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0
Reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications.

Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability
NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs. NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.

NVIDIA ® CUDA™ Architecture
NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as video encoding, image processing, and accurate physics.

NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions
NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities.

NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
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 HD Technology
The ultimate high-definition movie experience on your PC by combining high-definition movie decode, acceleration and post-processing on HDCP enabled platforms. PureVideo HD delivers superb picture quality for all video formats, as well as stunning Blu-ray playback—with low CPU utilization and power consumption.

NVIDIA GPU Unified Architecture
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.

NVIDIA ® nView™ Multi-Display Technology
The nView advanced Display Software delivers maximum flexibility for single-large display or multi-display options, providing unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience for increased productivity.

PCI Express Gen 2 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).

Quad Buffered Stereo
Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications that demand stereo viewing capability.

Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Single DVI Dual-Link Digital Display Connector
Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @24Hz) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Ultra Quiet Design
Acoustics lower than most desktops at sub 40db for a quiet desktop environment.

Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

• 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer
• 128-bit memory interface
• 25.6GB/sec memory bandwidth
• DVI-I dual link and two DisplayPort
• PCI Express x16 Gen 2 bus interface (compatible with Gen 1)
• 40W maximum power consumption
• No auxiliary power required
• Active fansink thermal management
• ATX form factor, 4.376” (H) x 6.875” (L)

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 Architecture

• 128-bit color precision
• 10-bit per color display pipeline
• Unlimited fragment instruction
• Unlimited vertex instruction
• 3D volumetric texture support
• Hardware-accelerated, antialiased points & lines
• Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
• Hardware-accelerated, two-sided lighting
• Hardware-accelerated clipping planes
• 3rd-generation occlusion culling
• Window ID clipping functionality
• Hardware-accelerated line stippling

• Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 3.0/DirectX 10 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 complier for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
• OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 10 support
• Open source compiler

High-Resolution Antialiasing

• Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
• 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies” at resolution up to 1920x1200

Display Resolution Support

• Dual DisplayPort support— ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz)
• Single dual-link DVI-I output drives digital display at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz

PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580

nView Architecture

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

Package Contains

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 by PNY graphics board
• DVI-I to VGA adapter
• DisplayPort to DVI-D single link adapter
• Drivers for Windows Vista and XP
• Detailed Installation Guide
• Quickstart Installation Guide
• Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft® Windows® Vista (64-bit and 32-bit)
• 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

Minimum System Requirements

• PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Opteron® class processor or higher
• Open PCI Express x16 lane slot
• Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, or Linux
• 512MB system memory
• 50MB of available disk space for full installation
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• DVI-D or DisplayPort compatible display
• PCI Express Gen 2 support

The PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 features two DisplayPort connectors. This next-generation display interconnect supports ultra-high resolution digital panels (up to 2560 x 1600). On the PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 backplane a single DVI-I dual-link connector is joined by a pair of DisplayPort connector (three connectors total). Only two connectors can be used at the same time (e.g. the DVI-I connector and one DisplayPort connector or both DisplayPort connectors). A DisplayPort to DVI-D SL adapter is included for customers who need to drive two DVI compatible displays. DisplayPort cannot drive analog (VGA) displays unless a third-party adapter is utilized (not included).