NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 Professional Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Original Series
Quadro FX
Release Date
May 21st, 2003
PCB Code
180-10162-0000
P/N Code
600-50162-0004
Model
NVIDIA P162 SKU 004
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
NV34GL (NV34)
Architecture
NV30
Fabrication Process
150 nm
Die Size
91 mm2
Transistors Count
45M
Transistors Density
494.5K TRAN/mm2
Pixel Pipelines
4
Vertex Pipelines
1
TMUs
4
ROPs
4
Clocks
Base Clock
270 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
240 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
480 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
128 MB
Memory Type
DDR
Memory Bus Width
128-bit
Memory Bandwidth
7.7 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 1.0 x16
Height
1-slot
Multi-GPU Support
Unsupported
Display Outputs
DVI-I DualLink
1 ×
VGA
1 ×
API Support
DirectX
9.0a
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
1.5
OpenCL
-

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
1.1 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
1.1 GTexel/s




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1100 - -
 
650 Mbps
 
256 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI PCIE - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000 - -
 
850 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000G - -
 
850 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 4000 SDI AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 - -
 
800 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 - -
 
600 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 700 - -
 
550 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 - -
 
480 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 - -
 
480 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 - -
 
650 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 - -
 
480 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 600 - -
 
480 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 - -
 
400 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 LP - -
 
400 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Personal Cinema FX 5200 - -
 
400 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5300 - -
 
500 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5350 - -
 
550 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA NVS 280 AGP - -
 
500 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA NVS 280 PCI - -
 
500 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA NVS 280 PCIe - -
 
500 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5250 - -
 
500 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - -
 
200 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5100 - -
 
400 MB/s
 
32 MB D1 64b
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NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 - -
 
400 MB/s
 
32 MB D1 128b

NVIDIA Launches Quadro FX 500, First Fully Programmable Entry-Level Workstation Solution

High-Quality Graphics, Real-Time Rendering, Productivity Enhancing Capabilities Offered to Mainstream

SANTA CLARA, CA—MAY 21, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today introduced the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 500 graphics processing solution, based on the recently announced, award-winning NVIDIA Quadro FX series of workstation graphics solutions.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 500, available immediately, is armed with a high-end architecture featuring the industry’s only true 128-bit floating-point frame buffer, industry-leading 12 bits of subpixel precision, parallelized vertex engines, the industry’s first on-chip vertex cache, and fully programmable pixel pipelines allowing developers to simulate a virtually unlimited range of real-world properties like metal or skin and to modify them on the fly.

“With this new product, NVIDIA has made high-quality graphics affordable and readily available to a broad audience of professional users,” said Kara Yokley, manager, IDC workstation research. “The NVIDIA Quadro FX 500, with its real-time rendering and productivity enhancing capabilities, will help the company grow its workstation business by tapping into new target segments within the computer-aided design and digital content creation markets.”

NVIDIA Quadro FX 500’s programmability is exposed through Cg, a C-like high-level programming language developed by NVIDIA. Using Cg, major independent computer-aided design and digital content creation software application vendors—including Alias|Wavefront, Digital Immersion, Discreet, Softimage, and SolidWorks—have incorporated into their applications the hardware rendering capabilities found in NVIDIA Quadro FX 500.

“The programmability of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 allows Discreet to offer our customers production rendering as an integral part of real-time content creation,” said Chris Ford, product line manager at Discreet. “Users can apply sophisticated virtual materials or shaders like metals, rubber, or skin to their 3D models and render them in real time as they are designing.”

NVIDIA Quadro FX products use the NVIDIA® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), a set of backward-and-forward, top-to-bottom compatible graphics drivers that optimize application performance, stability, and reliability. All NVIDIA Quadro FX products feature the NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology and OpenGL® quad-buffered stereo capability, extending the productivity available to users.

“With the introduction of NVIDIA Quadro FX 500, we’re able to offer our customers a fully scalable range of workstation graphics solutions,” said Jeff Brown, director of workstation product management at NVIDIA. “Each of these configurations, like all NVIDIA products, offers our customers the broadest application certification program in the industry.”

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 500 is now in volume production. Original equipment manufacturers as well as PNY—NVIDIA’s exclusive U.S. and European NVIDIA Quadro FX distributor—system integrators, and value-added resellers worldwide will begin selling the solution this week. For more information on NVIDIA Quadro FX products and to find out where you can purchase them, please visit the NVIDIA Web site at www.nvidia.com.