
NVIDIA® QUADRO® FX 580
Big on Performance.
FX 580
®
easy on your Budget.
To maintain maximum productivity, design professionals have had to sacrifice
their ability to interact with intuitive and realistic 3D designs, relying on
simplified representations.
As a result, design decisions are often made
based on less precise information. Today,
DCC and CAD software vendors, such as
Autodesk, are shifting their applications to
incorporate the addition of 3D features into
previously 2D applications, making it more
critical for professionals to future proof their
platform. The Quadro FX 580 entry-level
professional-class GPU enables designers to
leverage the 3D capabilities of applications
to create and interact with more complex
product designs, achieving maximum
productivity without sacrificing visual quality.
Big on performance and easy on your
budget, Quadro FX 580 offers the best value,
professional-class graphics solution. Enabling
EnergyStar compliance, Quadro FX 580 provides
extreme power efficiency from a solution with
30-bit color fidelity. Certified on all industryleading applications and featuring automatic
configuration of display settings, Quadro FX 580
delivers optimal performance for maximum
productivity.
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 hardwareaccelerated 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 entrylevel, Quadro delivers the productivity you
need at every price point and form factor.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
FORM FACTOR
4.376” H x 6.875” L Single Slot >
FRA ME BUFFER MEMORY
512 MB GDDR3 >
MEMOR Y INTERFACE
128-bit >
MEMOR Y BANDWIDTH
25.6 GBps >
MA X POWER CONSUMPTION
40W >
GRA PHICS BUS
PCI Express Gen 2 x16 >
DISPLAY CONNECTORS
2 DisplayPorts, 1 Dual Link DVI >
DUAL LINK DVI
Yes (1) >
NUMBER OF SLOTS
1 >
THERMAL S OLUTION
Variable speed active fansink >
QUADRO
DATASHEET
Image Courtesy of: AutoDesk, Modo image created by Muharraqi-Studios (Khalid Al-muharraqi), and NVIDIA Corporation.
QUADRO FX 580 | DATASHEET | MAR09 | FINAL

NVIDIA® QUADRO® FX 580
Features Benefits
512 MB GDDR3 GPU Memory with
Ultra-Fast Memory Bandwidth
30-Bit Color Fidelity
NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture
PCI Express 2.0 Compliant
Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
suPPorted PLatforms
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,
complete with NVIDIA and ARB
extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
®
Solaris >
AMD64, Intel EM64T >
PCI Express 2.0 Support >
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 >
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).
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.
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically
allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing
power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for
Quadro professional GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas
such as video encoding, image processing, and accurate physics.
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).
Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution
panels (up to 2560 x 1600), which results in amazing image
quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
Hardware-accelerated, two-sided lighting >
Hardware-accelerated clipping planes >
3rd-generation occlusion culling >
Window ID clipping functionality >
Hardware-accelerated line stippling >
HigH-resoLution antiaLiasing
Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing >
(RG FSAA)
16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual >
aliasing artifacts or “jaggies” at
resolution up to 1920 x 1200
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 compiler for Cg and >
Microsoft HLSL
OpenGL 3.0 and DirectX 10 support >
Open source compiler >
disPLay resoLution suPPort
Dual DisplayPort support—ultra- >
high resolution panels (up
to 2560 x 1600 @60Hz)
Single dual-link DVI-I output drives >
digital displays at resolutions up to
2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz
Internal 400 MHz DACs—One analog >
display up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz
nVieW arcHitecture
The nView Display Management >
Software, seamlessly integrated into
Microsoft Windows, delivers maximum
flexibility and productivity for single
large display or multi-display setups
To learn more about NVIDIA Quadro, go to www.nvidia.com/quadro
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