NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1800

Create innovative designs with the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 1800 professional graphics solution, setting the standard for power efficiency while delivering a balanced price and performance combination.

Architected for leading-edge manufacturing and design companies, this next generation solution within the most requested mid-range professional graphics family, provides a balanced price and performance combination. Featuring NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, 30-bit color fidelity, and automatic configuration of application display settings for optimal performance, the Quadro FX 1800 sets the standard for power efficiency while delivering a rich user experience.

Maximum Price Performance for Manufacturing and Design Professionals
Quadro FX 1800 provides over 20% higher performance and 50% more graphics memory, over previous generations, for interactive visualization of large assemblies and scenes.

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.

NVIDIA Application Configuration Engine (ACE)
Automatically adjusts graphics settings for optimized application performance from the start, eliminating the need to manually adjust setting per application.

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






*PLEASE NOTE:  Technical support for the NVIDIA graphics boards is provided by the manufacturer, not FISHER/UNITECH.

Product Specifications

• 768MB GDDR3 frame buffer
• 192-bit memory interface
• 38.4GB/sec memory bandwidth
• DVI dual link and two DisplayPort
• PCI Express x16 Gen 2 bus interface (compatible with Gen 1)
• 59W maximum power consumption
• No auxiliary power required
• Active fansink thermal management
• ATX form factor, 4.376” (H) x 7.8” (L)

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 by PNY Architecture

• 128-bit color precision
• 10-bit per color display pipeline
• Unlimited fragment instruction
• Unlimited vertex instruction
• Hardware-accelerated, antialiased points and lines
• Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
• Hardware-accelerated, two-sided lighting
• Hardware-accelerated clipping planes
• 3rd-generation occlusion culling
• Window ID clipping functionality
• Hardware-accelerated line stippling

Shading Architecture

• Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 3.0/DirectX 10 class)
• Long fragment programs (unlimited instructions)
• Long vertex programs (unlimited instructions)
• Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
• Dynamic flow control
• Conditional execution

High Level Shader Languages

• Optimized complier for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
• OpenGL 3.0 and DirectX 10 support
• Open source compiler

High-Resolution Antialiasing

• Rotated Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
• 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies” at resolution up to 1920x1200

Display Resolution Support

• Dual DisplayPort support— ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 at Hz)
• Single dual-link DVI-I output drives digital display at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz

nView Architecture

• Advanced multi-display desktop and application management, seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Windows.

Package Contains

• NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 by PNY graphics board
• DVI-I to VGA adapter
• DisplayPort to DVI-D single link adapter
• Drivers for Windows Vista and XP
• Detailed Installation Guide
• Quickstart Installation Guide
• Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft® Windows® Vista (64-bit and 32-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
• Linux – full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
• Solaris®
• AMD64, Intel EM64T

Minimum System Requirements

• PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Opteron® class processor or higher
• Open PCI Express x16 lane slot
• Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, or Linux
• 512MB system memory
• 50MB of available disk space for full installation
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
• DVI-I or DisplayPort compatible display
• PCI Express Gen 2 support