
NVIDIA Quadro
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
Exceptional Price/Performance for Professional Applications
The NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1700 graphics board
delivers exceptional price/performance and quality
for professional applications.
Featuring a revolutionary unied architecture,
Quadro FX 1700 dynamically allocates
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geometry, shading, and compute processing
power to deliver optimized GPU performance
while enabling Energy Star power savings.
The reference standard for Shader Model
4.0, Quadro FX 1700 solution enables next
generation ultra-realistic, real-time OpenGL
and Direct X 10 visualization applications.
With two dual-link DVI-I connectors, NVIDIA
Quadro FX 1700 offers superb image quality
at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz.
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 is the midrange solution from the latest generation
of unied architecture based product
offerings. The entire NVIDIA Quadro family
takes computer-aided-design (CAD), digital
content creation (DCC), and visualization
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 5600
at the ultra-high-end, and Quadro FX 4600
at the high-end, through Quadro FX 1700
at the mid-range, to Quadro FX 570 and
370 at the entry-level, Quadro delivers the
productivity you need at every price point.
Product Specifications
Form Factor ATX, 4.38”(H) x 6.6” (L)
Frame Buffer Memory 512MB DDR2
Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth 12.8GB/sec.
Max Power Consumption 42W
Graphics Bus PCI Express x16
Display Connectors Dual DVI-I, TV-Out
Dual Link DVI Yes (2)
Auxiliary Power Connectors No
Number of Slots 1
Thermal Solution Active Fansink
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NVIDIA Quadro | The Definition of Performance. The Standard for Quality.
Features and Benefits
NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
GPU Computing
Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel
Programmability Shader Model 4.0
Fast 3D Textures
High Performance Display Outputs
nView® Multi-Display Technology1
Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing
(RG FSAA)
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate geometry, shading, pixel,
and compute processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.
NVIDIA CUDA™ provides a C language environment and tool suite that unleashes new
capabilities to solve complex, visualization challenges such as real-time ray tracing and
interactive volume rendering.
Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and
ultra-realistic effects for next generation OpenGL and DirectX 10 industry-leading
professional applications.
Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of
large volumetric dataset.
Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz),
which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
The NVIDIA nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility
for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the
desktop experience.
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.
Product Specifications
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
Microsoft® Windows Vista™
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(64-bit and 32-bit)
Microsoft Windows® XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
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Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
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Linux® - Full OpenGL® implementation,
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complete with NVIDIA and ARB
extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
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Solaris
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AMD64, Intel EM64T
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NVIDIA QUADRO FX 1700
ARCHITECTURE
128-bit color precision
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Unlimited fragment instruction
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Unlimited vertex instruction
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3D volumetric texture support
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12 pixels per clock rendering engine
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Hardware accelerated antialiased
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points & lines
Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
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Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
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Hardware accelerated clipping planes
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NVIDIA nView will be available for Windows Vista Spring 2008
3rd-generation occlusion culling
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16 textures per pixel in fragment programs
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Window ID clipping functionality
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Hardware accelerated line stippling
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SHADING ARCHITECTURE
Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 2.1/
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DirectX 10 class)
Long fragment programs (unlimited
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instructions)
Long vertex programs (unlimited instructions)
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Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per
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vertex program)
Dynamic ow control
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Conditional execution
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HIGH LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGES
Optimized compiler for Cg and
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Microsoft HLSL
OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 10 support
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Open source compiler
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HIGH-RESOLUTION ANTIALIASING
Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing
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(RG FSAA)
32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual
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aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in
highly realistic scenes
DISPLAY RESOLUTION SUPPORT
Dual-link DVI-I outputs drive two digital
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displays at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600
@ 60Hz
Internal 400 MHz DACs – Two analog displays
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up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz
To learn more about NVIDIA Quadro, go to www.nvidia.com
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