In addition to two dual link DVI-I connectors, the Quadro FX 1700 also provides HD component video.Īt the high-end, NVIDIA refreshes its product line with the introduction of the newest member of the family, the Quadro FX 3700 ($1,599 MSRP/$899 street). But when coupled with the new GPU, the FX 1700 clearly outperforms its predecessor, delivering 191 million triangles per second and a fill rate of 7.36 billion texels per second.
Unlike its predecessor, the FX 1700 uses a 128-bit memory interface, yielding a memory bandwidth of just 12.8GBps, the same as the FX 570. Likely to become the most popular board in the new Quadro FX lineup, the FX 1700 comes with 512MB of DDR2 memory, again double the amount previously found at this price point. Both of the board’s DVI-I connectors support dual link.įor the mid-range, NVIDIA improves upon the FX 1500 with the introduction of the Quadro FX 1700 ($699 MSRP/$585 street). This results in a memory bandwidth of 12.8GBps, enabling the board to pump out 137 million triangles per second and a fill rate of 3.68 texels per second. Like the new FX 370, the FX 570 comes with 256MB of DDR2 memory, but uses a 128-bit memory interface. Up a step is the new NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 ($199 MSRP/ $182 street), which outperforms the older FX 550 and FX 560 boards yet costs $80 and $100 less, respectively. Yet the half-length board uses a single PCIe X16 slot and consumes just 35 watts. The FX 370 delivers 66 million triangles per second and 2.88 billion texels per second and provides two DVI-I connectors, one of which even supports dual link, enabling the board to support ultra-high resolution displays at 2560 x 1600 at normal refresh rates, a first for an entry-level board. The 64-bit memory interface yields a memory bandwidth of 6.4GBps.
Priced $70 less than its predecessor, the board comes with 256MB of DDR2 video memory, twice that of the board it replaces. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 ($129 MSRP/$115 average street price) is the company’s new low-end entry-level 3D card. CUDA provides a standard C language interface so that programmers can synchronize hybrid programs running on both CPUs and GPUs. Some types of computing tasks have parts that are better suited for CPU computing while other parts are better suited for being run on the GPU.
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The latest boards also support the new NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) GPU-computing software architecture. The 370, 570, 1700, and 3700 also support PCI Express version 2.0, which doubles the bus standard’s bandwidth, meaning the X16 graphics slot can transfer 16GBps bidirectionally (8GBps in each direction).
The Quadro FX 370, 570, 1700, and 3700 are all based on a 65-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process whereas the FX 46 are 90nm boards. In addition to sharing the same core unified architecture and drivers, the new boards are now Shader Model 4.0 compliant and come with the increased frame buffer capacity needed to make them fully Microsoft Vista ready. The ultra high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600was reviewed previously. The new unified architecture dynamically allocates the GPU’s power between vertex and pixel shading, improving performance for all types of users. This often resulted in portions of the graphics processing unit (GPU) sitting idle while others were maxed out, because games often use models with low numbers of polygons with lots of textures while CAD models often have large numbers of polygons with few or no textures. Previous generations of graphics cards had separate banks of vertex and pixel shaders that could only be used for accelerating vertex calculations and texturing, respectively. Like the ultra high-end Quadro FX 4600 and FX 5600, all of the new graphics accelerators feature NVIDIA’s unified architecture, which dynamically allocates geometry, shading, and pixel processing as well as compute power. Now that the rest of the family has also been updated, it’s time to give you all the details on the entire product line. Previously we looked at the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 and FX 5600 boards (see June and July 2007 DE, respectively).
Over the past year, NVIDIA has once again refreshed its entire lineup of workstation-class graphics accelerators - the Quadro FX series.
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