NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 Professional Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Original Series
Quadro FX 8
Release Date
March 30th, 2009
Launch Price
$129
PCB Code
180-10977-0000
P/N Code
600-50977-0500
Model
NVIDIA P977 SKU 500
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
G96
Architecture
G90
Fabrication Process
65 nm
Die Size
144 mm2
Transistors Count
314M
Transistors Density
2.2M TRAN/mm2
Cores
16
SM
1
TPCs
1
TMUs
8
ROPs
8
Clocks
Base Clock
450 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
1400 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
256 MB
Memory Type
GDDR3
Memory Bus Width
128-bit
Memory Bandwidth
22.4 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 2.0 x16
Length
19.8 cm
Height
1-slot
TDP/TBP
34 W
Recommended PSU
300 W
Multi-GPU Support
Unsupported
Display Outputs
DVI-I DualLink
2 ×
API Support
DirectX
10.0
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
3.3
OpenCL
-

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
3.6 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
3.6 GTexel/s
Peak FP32
14.4 GFLOPS
FP32 Perf. per Watt
424 FLOPS/W
FP32 Perf. per mm2
100 FLOPS/mm2




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
 
240
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
4 GB GD3 512b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 SDI
 
240
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
4 GB GD3 512b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
 
192
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
1.5 GB GD3 384b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
 
192
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
1.5 GB GD3 384b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
 
192
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
1 GB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800
 
64
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
768 MB GD3 192b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
 
32
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 LP
 
16
-
 
1.6 Gbps
 
512 MB GD3 64b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
 
16
-
 
1.4 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 128b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
 
48
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
1 GB GD3 64b
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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
1 GB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 120M
 
32
-
 
1 GB/s
 
1 GB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
1 GB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700M
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 580
 
32
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce G110M
 
16
-
 
1.4 GB/s
 
1 GB GD3 64b
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NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G
 
16
-
 
1.6 GB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
 
16
-
 
1.4 GB/s
 
256 MB GD3 128b

Digital artists and designers can now create stunning 3D designs from a professional platform. Enabling EnergyStar compliance, Quadro FX 380 provides extreme power efficiency to save you money. Certified on all industry-leading applications and featuring automatic configuration of display settings, Quadro FX 380 provides both power efficiency and performance.

50% Higher Performance at an Affordable Price*
Interact with your data much faster with 250% increase in memory bandwidth reducing the need to switch to wire frame during zooming, panning, spinning, and orientation. Up to 900% faster performance in industry-leading CAD applications versus consumer graphics.**

NVIDIA Application Configuration Engine (ACE)
Automatically adjusts graphics settings for optimized application performance from the start, minimizing time wasted by manually adjusting settings.

CUDA Parallel Computing Architecture
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.

Power Efficiency for Reduced Cost
Power saving techniques enables EnergyStar compliant workstations to efficiently manage power consumption, without sacrificing performance.

Designed, Tested, and Built by NVIDIA
Meets ultra high standards of quality assurance for reduced system downtime.

Key features

  • 128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
    Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range. Sets new standards for image clarity and quality in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  • 256 MB GDDR3 GPU Memory with ultra fast memory bandwidth
    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).
  • Advanced Color Compression, Early Z-Cull
    Improved pipeline color compression and early z-culling to increase effective bandwidth and improve rendering efficiency and performance.
  • Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
    Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.
  • Cg High-Level Graphics Shader Language
    Cg—“C” for graphics—is a high-level, open-standard programming language that takes advantage of the power of programmable GPUs. NVIDIA® Quadro® FX programmable graphics pipelines leverage high-level shading languages to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes, and designs. This represents a key enabler for the creation of real-time, photo-realistic visuals within CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
  • Essential for Windows Vista
    Offering an enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality, Quadro graphics boards and NVIDIA OpenGL ICD drivers are optimized for 32- and 64-bit architectures to enable the Microsoft® Windows Vista® experience.
  • Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
    Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in highly realistic scenes.
  • Hardware 3D Window Clipping
    Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) which improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.
  • Highest Workstation Application Performance
    Next-generation architecture enables over 2x improvement in geometry and fill rates with the industry’s highest performance for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications.
  • High-Performance Display Outputs
    400MHz RAMDACs and up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors drive the highest resolution digital displays available on the market.
  • 8K Texture and Render Processing
    The ability to texture from and render to 8K x 8K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.
  • Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability Shader Model 4.0
    Reference standard for shader model 4.0 enabling a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX® 10 industry-leading professional applications.
  • Next-Generation Vertex and Pixel Programmability
    Quadro FX GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs. Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.
  • CUDA Architecture
    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.
  • NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions
    NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities.
  • NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
    Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
  • NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology
    The ultimate high-definition movie experience on your PC by combining high-definition movie decode acceleration and post-processing on HDCP enabled platform, HDCP circuitry, and integration with HD movie players. It delivers superb picture quality for all video formats, as well as stunning HD DVD and Blu-ray movies—with low CPU utilization and power consumption.
  • 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.
  • nView Multi-Display Technology
    The NVIDIA® nView™ advanced Display Software delivers maximum flexibility for single-large display or multi-display options, providing unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience for increased productivity.
  • 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).
  • OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support
    OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo offers professional applications the capability of smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience.
  • Dual Dual-Link Digital Display Connectors
    Dual dual-link TMDS transmitters support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @ 24Hz on each panel) –which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.
  • Ultra quiet design
    Engineered to deliver high performance with low acoustics for a quiet desktop environment.
  • Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
    The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

NVIDIA Introduces Industry’s Most Powerful Professional Graphics LineUp

Most Advanced Visualization Product Line Ever; Highlights Decade of Quadro Graphics Innovation

SANTA CLARA, CA. — MARCH 30, 2009 — Whether designing the next aircraft or delivering seven-day weather forecasts, today’s professionals seek a reliable, robust visualization platform designed to address their unique challenges and needs. Highlighting a decade of innovation, driven by the needs of the most demanding professionals, NVIDIA today introduced its most powerful and advanced top-to-bottom line of Quadro® professional GPU solutions in the Company’s history.

“Our mission with Quadro is to help customers solve the world’s most challenging visual computing problems,” stated Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. “We learn every day from them and are humbled by their brilliance. The new lineup, with the flagship Quadro FX 5800, sets the stage for the next ten years of innovation.”

Spanning from sub-$100 entry-level to standalone visual computing systems, this new series includes:

  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 – the industry’s first and only 4GB, ultra high-end solution delivers the highest visualization performance and capabilities, enabling professionals to work with large-scale models and datasets.
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 – ultra high-end solution provides professionals with the most complete toolset to dramatically push the boundaries of realism, performance, and quality.
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 – single slot solution with a robust feature set and added capabilities such as SLI Multi-OS and SDI support to enable a no-compromise, high-performance, interactive visualization experience.
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 – mid-range solution offers the best price performance for workstation graphics and provides the optimal blend of quality, precision, performance, and programmability.
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 – best-in-class entry-level solution boosts productivity for a variety of industry-leading volume CAD and digital content applications.
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 – an affordable professional-class graphics solution extends energy efficiency while delivering 50-percent faster performance.
  • The Quadro NVS 295 – capable of supporting up to two 30-inch digital displays at maximum resolutions, taking business graphics to a new level visual perfection.

“Once again, NVIDIA has set new graphics performance standards for professionals in the product design and development community,” said Laurent Laloy, director, 3DVIA User Experience, Dassault Systèmes. “This latest generation of Quadro professional solutions will allow our customers to drive innovation and design with unprecedented 3D visual quality.”

This new line-up also brings the introduction of NVIDIA® SLI® Multi-OS, a ground-breaking technology that enables, for the first time, 3D workstation virtualization on the Quadro GPU. With SLI Multi-OS, applications and users are able to optimize productivity and costs through the use of multiple Quadro GPU technologies from a single workstation in a virtualized environment. Users can also enable native SLI technology support on key partner platforms to accelerate application performance, scaling and higher image quality.

Availability
NVIDIA Quadro solutions are widely available through leading system manufacturers such as Dell, Fujistu-Siemens, HP and Lenovo; leading workstation system integrators; and NVIDIA channel partners PNY Technologies (US and EMEA), Leadtek (APAC) and Elsa (Japan). For additional information about the complete lineup of NVIDIA Quadro professional solutions, please visit: www.nvidia.com/quadro.

“The new family of powerful NVIDIA GPU solutions are an ideal match for the new HP Z Workstations, which have been totally reinvented from the core outward for breakthrough performance, value and serviceability,” said Jim Zafarana, Vice President and General Manager, HP Workstations. “This powerful combination can tackle the most challenging visual computing problems that exist for today’s demanding professionals.”

“As the worldwide leader in workstations, Dell looks to partner with only the best companies to deliver the solutions that workstation professionals demand,” said Greg Weir, senior manager, product group. “The power of Dell Precision and NVIDIA graphics represents a step-change in what customers can expect from a reliable, powerful and ISV-certified workstation with performance gains at levels beyond what customers could have imagined.”