Nvidia QUADRO FX 3800 Datasheet

NVIDIA® QUADRO® FX 3800

The Unrivaled Professional

FX 3800

®

GraPhics solUTion

Industries from automotive to aerospace have seen product development
cycles reduced as processes have shifted from physical prototypes to digital
prototypes. With shorter design cycles, companies can reduce costs and time to
market.

In order to capitalize on this trend,
professionals demand a graphics solution
that will deliver optimized performance and
features, within budget requirements, while
producing maximum returns. The NVIDIA®
Quadro® FX 3800 professional graphics
solutions exceeds these demands.

The Quadro FX 3800 is the unrivaled
professional graphics solution among Fortune
1,000 companies. Featuring a 192-core NVIDIA®
CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, 30-bit
color fidelity, and automatic configuration of
application settings, Quadro FX 3800 delivers
a power efficient, full featured, ultimate
performance experience. Plus, design and
video professionals can take advantage of
NVIDIA® SLI® Multi OS technology to run
multiple Windows or Linux- based applications
with GPU acceleration from a single system

- eliminating the need for dual systems.

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 9” L >

FRA ME BUFFER MEMORY

1 GB GDDR3 >

MEMOR Y INTERFACE

256-bit >

MEMOR Y BANDWIDTH

51.2 GBps >

MA X POWER CONSUMPTION

108W >

GRA PHICS BUS

PCI Express x16 Gen 2 >

DISPLAY CONNEC TORS

Dual DisplayPort, DVI-I (dual link), and >
Stereo*

DUAL LINK DVI

Yes (1) >

NUMBER OF SLOTS

1 >

THERMAL S OLUTION

Variable speed fan >

* Optional

QUADRO

DATASHEET

Image Courtesy of: AutoDesk, WTVF station and WSI Corporation, and Rob Wolkers Product. QUADRO FX 3800 | DATASHEET | MAR09 | FINAL

NVIDIA® QUADRO® FX 3800

Features Benefits

NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute,

geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.

NVIDIA CUDA Architecture NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for NVIDIA Quadro

GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as such as interactive
ray tracing, finite element analysis, and computational fluid dynamics.

30-Bit Color Fidelity 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.

Fully Virtualized Workstation NVIDIA SLI Multi OS enables multiple Windows or Linux workstation environments from

a single system featuring dual Quadro FX 3800 graphics boards, with each operating
system directly assigned to a Quadro FX 3800 GPU. Professional applications take
full advantage of Quadro GPU accelerated features on both operating systems.

PCI Express 2.0 Compliant 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).

Quad Buffered Stereo Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications

that demand stereo viewing capability.

Wide Range of Display Support Options Provides customers with a wide range of display options ranging from DisplayPort,

DVI dual link and Stereo to HDMI and VGA support through adaptors. DisplayPort
and DVI connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz),
which results in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Uncompressed 8-, 10-, or
12-Bit SDI Output*

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

sUPPorTed Pl aTforMs

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 >

nvidi a QUadro fX 3800
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 >

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.

*Need NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output option card.

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)

32x 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 l anGUaGes

Optimized compiler for Cg and >
Microsoft HLSL

OpenGL 3.0 and DirectX 10 support >
Open source compiler >

disPl aY 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

nvie W 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

© 2009 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, NVIDIA Quadro, CUDA, and SLI are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. All company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective owners
with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are all subject to change without notice.