OVERVIEW
NVIDIA QUADRO FX ARCHITECTURE ACHIEVES UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE
Featuring the industry’s first top-to-bottom family of PCI Express™ products targeted for professional CAD, DCC, and Scientific applications, NVIDIA Quadro FX ushers in a new era of unprecedented performance, programmability, precision and quality.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture 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.

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
Proven Professional Graphics Architecture
Parallel vertex engines, programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation specific features result in the industry's highest application performance and quality.

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

Full 128-bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Enables mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality.

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

High Precision Dynamic Range Imaging (HPDR) 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. Support for 32-bit floating point precision per component – an industry exclusive.

Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
Greater than 1.0GB/sec. pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput, more than 5x the performance of previous generation graphics systems.

PCI Express Support
Designed specifically to take advantage of the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

Unified Driver Architecture
Provides easy installation and manageability through a single unified driver for large scale system deployment. The performance and power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are built on a solid foundation of quality engineering. This engineering excellence is exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications.

NVIDIA QUADRO FX WORKSTATION GPU
	Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline
	12-bit subpixel precision
	8 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
	OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
	Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back

NEXT GENERATION SHADING ARCHITECTURE
	Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 1.5/DirectX 9.0 class)
	Long fragment and vertex programs (up to 65,536 instructions)
	Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
	Dynamic flow control
	Conditional execution

HIGH-LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGES
	Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL shading language, and Microsoft HLSL
	OpenGL 1.5 and DirectX 9.0 support
	Open source compiler

ARCHITECTURE
	x16 PCI-Express
	256MB high-speed GDDR3 frame buffer
	128-bit IEEE floating-point precision graphics pipeline
	128-bit color
	32-bit floating point frame buffer
	12-bit subpixel precision
	Up to 16x FSAA
	Unlimited programmability
	3D volumetric textures
	Single-system powerwall

PACKAGE CONTAINS
	NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 PCI Express graphics board
	DVI to VGA Adapters
	Drivers for Windows XP, 2000 & NT support
	Detailed Installation Guide
	Quickstart Installation Guide
	Quadro® Application Utilities CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)
	6 Pin Power Cable

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
	PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Athlon®/Opteron® class processor or higher
	PCI Express x16 lane bus
	Microsoft Windows® XP, 2000, NT4.0, (Service Pack 6) or Linux®
	128MB system memory
	50MB of available disk space for full installation
	CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
	VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
	350W Power Supply