PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Card

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.

Certified on all industry-leading applications and featuring automatic configuration of display settings, Quadro FX 580 delivers optimal performance for maximum productivity.

Product Specifications

• 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)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 by PNY 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

Shading Architecture

• 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

High Level Shader Languages

• 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

nView Architecture

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

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