Quadro FX 5600 SDI 1.5GB PCIe NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI by PNY Technologies provides an ultra high-end programmable graphics solution that delivers unprecedented graphics performance and features along with a flexible SDI platform that delivers film, digital broadcast and video professionals the ability to customize the card to a particular solution or workflow.   List Price:  $8999.00 Our Price:  $7299.99   • or •

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Quadro FX 5600 SDI 1.5GB PCIe Specifications

On-air broadcast solutions can integrate the FX 5600 SDI into 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 in SD or HD. Film and video pre- and post-production workflows utilizing the FX 5600 SDI can preview, in real-time on HD broadcast monitors, the results of 3D compositing, editing, digital intermediates, and color grading. NVIDIA Quadro SDI technology enables real-time 3D effects in HD or SD and allows direct connection to broadcast monitors, switchers, tape decks, or SDI HD displays or projectors. 2K HD and SD output, along with the new SMPTE-372M and HSDL standards are supported. Uncompressed 8-bit, 10-bit, or 12-bit SDI is available as 2 channels Fill or 1 Fill and 1 Key. YUV/RGB capabilities include 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 or 4:4:4:4. A full featured SDK is also provided. The FX 5600 GPU features a revolutionary NVIDIA unified architecture that dynamically allocates compute, geometry, and shader processing power to efficiently deliver optimized performance. Featuring the industry’s first 1.5GB frame buffer and memory bandwidth up to 76.8GB/sec., the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI enables interactive visualization of the largest 64-bit datasets. Innovative NVIDIA CUDATM technology provides a simplified computing platform for data-intensive applications using a standard C language interface to solve complex computational problems. The reference standard for Shader Model 4.0, the FX 5600 GPU enables next generation ultra-realistic, real-time visualization applications with unprecedented image quality. Uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-Bit SDI Output Enables on-air broadcast, video production and post production professionals to composite and output live video and graphics to true, uncompressed 12-bit SDI in 2K, SD, or HD resolutions and allows direct connection to a broadcast monitor, switcher, tape deck, or SDI projector. Ancillary Data Support Support for ancillary data channel (for audio, time code, etc) through an NVIDIA API. Support for the introduction of ancillary data into the out going SDI video is provided through an NVIDIA API. This ancillary data can include up to 16 channels of embedded 24-bit digital audio as defined by SMPTE 272M and SMPTE 299M as well as timecode. 2D Video Pass Through Compositing 2D Video Compositing enables incoming video to be passed through and alpha composited, luma keyed, or chroma keyed with the Quadro rendered graphics image on the outgoing SDI video. Genlock (House Synchronization) One genlock (Standard BNC) connector (digital or analog) provides connectivity to a video sync source for SMPTE standard (digital, black burst, tri-level) synchronization. Expanded cross sync functionality permits an incoming house signal to synchronize a much larger number of video output signal formats. Flicker Filter The Quadro FX 5600 GPU includes a built-in flicker filter for the high quality rendering of computer graphics images in interlaced formats. Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA) The rotated grid 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. 1.5GB Ultra-Fast Graphics Frame Buffer Memory 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). 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. Fast 3D Texture Transfer Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset. Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0 Reference standard for Shader Model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and ultra-realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications. 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. 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. 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 millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. High Bandwidth GPU Memory GPU memory acts as high performance level two cache enabling blistering data transfer to and from the GPU for operations such as, rendering, shading, and texturing, and general purpose computation. Supports the world’s fastest graphics memory with lower power consumption than previous generation systems. 32-Bit Floating Point Precision for Filtering and Blending Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 32-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing. Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance. 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. GPU Computing NVIDIA CUDA provides a C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing and interactive volume rendering. 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. Hardware 3D Window Clipping Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer. Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back Up to 2.4GBps pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput. 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 400 MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market. 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 platform, HDCP circuitry, and integration with HD movie players. It delivers superb picture quality for all video formats, as well as stunning HD DVD and Blu-ray movies-with low CPU utilization and power consumption. PCI Express Certified PCI Express is an Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GBps in both upstream and downstream data transfers. Single 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 Accoustics lower than most desktops at sub 40dB for a quiet desktop environment. Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux. Unmatched Color Precision 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 millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 by PNY Architecture 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 Shading Architecture Full Shader Model 4.0 (Open GL 2.1/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 High Level Shader Languages Optimized complier for Cg and Microsoft HLSL OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 10 support Open source compiler High-Resolution Antialiasing 12-bit subpixel sampling precision enhances antialiasing quality Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA) 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 Display Resolution Support Single dual link DVI-I output drives a digital display at resolutions up to 3840 x 2400 at 24Hz Internal 400MHz DAC drives an analog display up to 2048 x 1536 at 75Hz NVIDIA nView Architecture Advanced multi-display desktop and application management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Windows Product Specifications Physical dimensions (FX 5600): ATX form factor, 4.38 inches x 12.28 inches Physical dimensions (SDI Option Card): ATX form factor, 3.875 inches x 6.60 inches Frame buffer memory: 1.5GB GDDR 3 Memory interface: 384-bit Memory bandwidth: 76.8GB/sec. Maximum power consumption (FX 5600): 171W Maximum power consumption (SDI Option Card): 20W Graphics bus (FX 5600): PCI Express x16 Display connectors (FX 5600) DVI-I dual link, stereo Connectors (SDI Option Card): BNC fill, BNC key, BNC input (sync) Auxiliary power connectors (FX 5600): Yes (2) Auxiliary power connectors (SDI Option Card): Yes (1) umber of slots: 3 (FX 5600 dual slot width, SDI Option Card single slot) Thermal solution: Active fansink Package Contains NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 by PNY graphics board NVIDIA Quadro SDI Option by PNY daughter board DVI-I to VGA adapter Auxiliary power connector cables (3) SDI crossover cable and ribbon connector cable Drivers for Windows® XP and 2000 etailed Installation Guide Quickstart Installation Guide Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtremeTM, POWERdraftTM) Supported Operating Systems 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 and adjacent vacant slot (for FX 5600) Open PCI Express or PCI slot (for SDI Option Card) Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, or Linux 1GB system memory 100MB of available disk space for full installation CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive VGA or DVI-I compatible display 750W power supply Lifetime warranty.

Quadro FX 5600 SDI 1.5GB PCIe Frequently-Asked Questions

1. HOW DO I SET UP DUAL MONITORS ON MY NVIDIA DISPLAY CARD? Make sure you have both monitors connected to the system and powered-up before attempting to setup nView. Then, follow these steps to configure multiple displays with your NVIDIA display card. Right click on the desktop and select "Properties" In the Display Properties control panel click the "Settings" tab. On the bottom right corner of the window click "Advanced...". In the Advanced window click the GeForce tab. Click the "nView Display Modes" option. You must now choose what mode you would like to setup: Clone will mirror your primary display to your secondary display: This setting is good for use with a projector. Horizontal Span/Vertical Span: This will stretch your display across both displays horizontally or vertically depending on what option you select. Once you have selected the option you would like to use, click "Apply". 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. 2. WHAT IS DIRECTX? DirectX® is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3-D animation, and surround sound. The latest versions of DirectX can be found on Microsoft's Windows update page. 3. WHAT ARE THE MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CONSUMER-LEVEL NVIDIA® GEFORCETM FAMILY AND THE WORKSTATION-CLASS NVIDIA QUADRO® FAMILY?" Since most consumer applications and games don’t create many pop-up windows, the GeForce family of GPUs supports only one clip region, whereas the NVIDIA Quadro family support up to eight clip regions. This would offer superior performance in applications that open many windows. The NVIDIA Quadro family of GPUs supports clip-plane acceleration in hardware - a significant performance improvement when it is used in professional applications. Another feature offered by the NVIDIA Quadro family of GPUs is memory management optimization, which efficiently allocates and shares memory resources between concurrent graphics windows and applications. In many situations, this feature directly affects application performance, and so offers demonstrable benefits over the consumer-oriented GeForce GPU family. NVIDIA Quadro memory management optimizations ensure that all available graphics memory is used efficiently, preventing potential performance degradations or loss of functionality because of exhausting graphics memory. This is important for professional applications in both the CAD and DCC markets that use several graphics windows simultaneously, as well as define and use many textures. Overlay planes let items be drawn on top of the main graphics window without damaging the contents of the windows beneath. Windows drawn in the overlay plane can contain text, graphics, and so on-the same as any normal window. Support for overlay planes is exclusive to the NVIDIA Quadro family of workstation GPUs and allows them to meet the needs of professional applications. Overlays are not supported on the GeForce family of GPUs. Many workstation applications, particularly in the CAD market, offer the option of using antialiased points and lines (sometimes called "wireframe"). With this option turned on, component edges can be viewed as precisely as possible without encountering the aliasing artifacts that are associated with lines displayed on a rasterized display. Quadro offers antialiased lines in hardware while GeForce does not. Quadro offers support for OpenGL Logic Operations in hardware. An example of this is a Digital Content Creation application where the XOR logic operation is used to draw sophisticated cursors, such as those in the paint operation of Alias’ Maya application. The XOR logic operation draws the cursor on top of the 3D scene for applications that do not support overplay planes. If the XOR logic operation is enabled, the performance drop of the NVIDIA Quadro is minimal when compared to that of GeForce. NVIDIA Quadro GPUs provide several additional features and benefits for professional application optimization and certification by Alias, Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley, Dassault, Discreet, Multigen-Paradigm, Newtek, Nothing Real, Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC), SDRC, Softimage, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, and Unigraphics and others. Finally, if you are lucky enough to have 3D glasses and an application that supports stero viewing, the NVIDIA Quadro GPU family supports a much faster quad-buffered stereo; the GeForce GPU family does not.

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