PNY NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 - 512 MB GDDR3, PCIe 2.0 x16 - DVI & 2x DisplayPort (bulk)

Overview: The NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 from PNY is a workstation-class graphics card engineered for professional CAD, DCC and scientific workflows. It combines high color fidelity, robust compute capability and multi-display support in a quiet desktop form factor. Color & Precision: Supports 30 bit-color (10 bits per color) to reproduce billions of color shades for richer, more lifelike imagery. The card features a 128-bit precision graphics pipeline and full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA), delivering an extremely broad dynamic range and millions of color variations. Memory & Rendering Performance: Equipped with 512 MB GDDR3 GPU memory and very high memory bandwidth to handle interactive visualization of large models, real-time processing of big textures and frames, and to enable high-quality full-scene antialiasing (FSAA). The GPU also provides 8K texture and render processing for applications requiring the highest resolution image work. Rendering Efficiency: Improvements such as advanced color compression and early z-cull increase effective bandwidth and rendering throughput, improving overall frame rates and responsiveness. Programmability & Shaders: Supports the Cg high-level graphics shader language (Cg - "C" for graphics) and next-generation vertex and pixel programmability. Features like infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control remove previous shader complexity limits and enable more sophisticated real-time visual effects. Parallel Compute & Unified Architecture: Built on NVIDIA CUDA architecture for parallel computing acceleration in tasks like video encoding, image processing and physics. The GPU unified architecture dynamically allocates compute, geometry, shading and pixel resources to optimize performance. Video & Playback: NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology provides hardware-accelerated high-definition decode, post-processing and low CPU utilization playback (including Blu-ray) on HDCP-enabled systems. HDMI output is supported via an HDMI adapter for audio/video transport to HDTVs and other HDMI devices. Display Outputs: High-performance outputs including 400MHz RAMDACs and support for up to two dual-link DVI digital connectors to drive very high-resolution displays. Also includes dual DisplayPort digital connectors (supporting panels up to 2560x1600) and a single DVI Dual-Link digital display connector with a dual-link TMDS transmitter for ultra-high-resolution panels. Connectivity & Standards: PCI Express Gen 2 compliant, doubling per-lane data transfer to 5 GT/sec and delivering an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8GB/sec in each direction). Professional Features & Acoustics: Quad-buffered stereo support for stereo viewing applications and an ultra-quiet design with acoustics lower than most desktop systems at sub 40db.