Quadro 4000 video card Nvidia Quadro is 's for intended for use in running professional (CAD), (CGI), (DCC) applications [ ], scientific calculations and machine learning. The GPU on Quadro-branded graphics cards are identical to the ones used on -branded graphics cards. The end products (i.e. The graphics card) differ substantially by their memory and enhanced floating point precision which tremendously reduce the risks of calculation errors. The Nvidia Quadro product line directly competes with 's line of professional workstation cards. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The Quadro line of GPU cards emerged in an effort at market segmentation by Nvidia.

[ ] In introducing Quadro, Nvidia was able to charge a premium for essentially the same graphics hardware in professional markets, and direct resources to properly serve the needs of those markets. [ – ] To differentiate their offerings, Nvidia used driver software and firmware to selectively enable features vital to segments of the workstation market; e.g., high-performance anti-aliased lines and two-sided lighting were reserved for the Quadro product. [ ] In addition, improved support through a certified driver program was put in place. [ ] These features were of little value in the gaming markets that Nvidia's products already sold to, but prevented high-end customers from using the less expensive products. There are parallels between the market segmentation used to sell the Quadro line of products to workstation (DCC) markets and the line of products to engineering and HPC markets. In a settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit between and Nvidia, SGI acquired rights to Nvidia graphics chips which they shipped under the VPro product label.

These designs were completely separate from the SGI Odyssey based products initially sold on their workstations which used a completely different bus. SGI's Nvidia-based VPro line included the VPro V3 (Geforce 256), VPro VR3 (Quadro), VPro V7 (Quadro2 MXR), and VPro VR7 (Quadro2 Pro). Quadro SDI [ ] Actual extra cards only for Quadro 4000 cards and higher: • SDI Capture: • SDI Output: Quadro Plex [ ] consists of a line of external servers for rendering videos.

Based on 2,091 user benchmarks for the Nvidia GeForce 310 and the Quadro FX 380, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 608 GPUs.

A Quadro Plex contains multiple Quadro FX video cards. A client computer connects to Quadro Plex (using PCI Express ×8 or ×16 interface card with interconnect cable) to initiate rendering. More Data in. Quadro SLI and SYNC [ ] Scalable Link Interface SLI is the next generation of Plex. SLI can improve Frame Rendering, FSAA. Quadro SLI support Mosaic for 2 Cards and 8 Monitors. With Quadro SYNC Card support of max.

16 Monitors (4 per Card) possible. Most Cards have SLI-Bridge-Slot for 2, 3 or 4 cards on one main board. Also acceleration of Science calculations is possible with CUDA and OpenCL. Free nokia tools download.

Nvidia has 4 types of SLI bridges: • Standard Bridge (400 MHz Pixel Clock and 1GB/s bandwidth ) • LED Bridge (540 MHz Pixel Clock ) • High-Bandwidth Bridge (650 MHz Pixel Clock ) • PCIe-Lanes only reserved for SLI More see. Quadro VCA [ ] Nvidia shows its own Solution of SLI and Supercomputing: Visual Computing Appliance with 8 GPUs. Nvidia Iray, Chaosgroup V-Ray and Nvidia OptiX accelerate Raytracing for Maya, 3DS Max, Cinema4D, Rhinoceros and others. All Software with or like ANSYS, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, OpenFoam can use VCA with great advantages. Actual available is DGX-1 with 8 GP100 Cards. More Data in.