What is NVIDIA Quadro?

The Nvidia Quadro remained an aficionado-class aristocrat graphics card via NVIDIA, barrage during January 2008. Developed at the 65 nm process, based on some G92 graphics processor, while its G92-875-A2 alternative, each card amenities DirectX 11.1. Moreover, admitting that that supports DirectX 11, the feature appositive acts simply 10_0, which can be uncertain among several DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 authorities. This G92 graphics processor holds a great chip, including a die area of 324 mm² and 754 million conductors. Disjoined some completely unlocked GeForce 9800 GT Rebrand, which practices the corresponding GPU yet becomes all 128 shaders approved, NVIDIA becomes incapacitated unusual shading units proceeding the Quadro FX 3700 to arrive the product's purpose shader whole. That emphasizes 112 shading units, 56 texture mapping units, and 16 ROPs. NVIDIA should pair 512 MB GDDR3 memory, including specific Quadro FX 3700, correlated using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is performing near a frequency of 500 MHz, and memory continues operating at 800 MHz.

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Obtaining some odd-slot card, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 carries the power of a 1x 6-pin influence connector, with a power draw rated at 78 W maximum. Layout outputs combine 2x DVI, 1x S-Video. Quadro FX 3700 remains pertinent before each rest of the system utilizing a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. These card contains 267 mm in length, 111 mm in width, plus emphasizes a single-slot cooling solution. Its launch cost obtained 1599 US Dollars.


The Nvidia Quadro obtains a visible graphics processing unit (Visual Computing System) aforethought concerning large-scale 3D visualizations. That practice quadrate regarding a receptacle holding a combination of high-end Nvidia Quadro graphics cards, highlighting external video connectors' diversity. Any extraordinary PCI Express card is fixed in the host computer, and the two stay connected via VHDCI cables.


Specifications


The Nvidia Quadro mode holds up over four GPUs per unit. That agrees superimposed individual host PC within a little form particular PCI Express card connected protecting every host, including a 2-meter (6.6-foot) Nvidia Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable. The operation is housed inside an obvious case roughly 9.49 inches in height, 5.94 inches in width, and 20.55 inches into depth and weighs approximately 19 pounds. That system relies massively upon approaching Nvidia's SLI technology. The NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Card features are given below:


  • PCI-e x16 graphics adapter
  • 512 MB 64-bit, DDR3 memory 
  • 12.3 GB/s memory 
  • 48 CUDA Processing Cores
  • 450 MHz Core GPU 
  • 770 MHz Memory 


Monitor Connectors:


  • DisplayPort
  • Dual-Link DVI-I


Supported Operating Systems


  • Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit and 32-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit)
  • Linux RedHat 5 - Full OpenGL implementation, comprehensive including NVIDIA moreover ARB extensions (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows 7

3D Graphics Anagnorisis


  • Scalable circumscribe architecture
  • NVIDIA GigaThread engine beside twin copy engines
  • Shader Model 4.1 (OpenGL 3.2 and DirectX 10.1)
  • Decode expedition concerning MPEG-2, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 plus succeeding)


Monitor Resolution Support:


  • DisplayPort furthermore whole Dual-Link DVI-I
    • 2560 x 1600 apex digital resolution concerning DisplayPort also Dual-Link DVI-I connectors
    • 2048 x 1536 maximum analog interpretation amidst those attributed DVI-to-VGA monitor adapter on specific Dual-Link DVI-I connector
    • 1920 x 1200 zenith digital analysis besides a connected DisplayPort to Single-Link DVI-I Monitor Cable

Theoretical Performance


Pixel Rate: 8.000 GPixel/s

Texture Rate: 28.00 GTexel/s

FP32 (float) performance: 280.0 GFLOPS


Clock Speeds

GPU Clock: 500 MHz

Shader Clock: 1250 MHz

Memory Clock: 800 MHz

1600 Mbps effective