DELL KY246 Quadro FX 3700 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card

DELL KY246 Quadro FX 3700 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Workstation Video Card
Manufacturer: DELL
Availability: In stock
SKU: 13577
Manufacturer part number: KY246
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$175.00
The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 by PNY Technologies graphics board, best-of-class solution for CAD, DCC, and visualization professionals, offers new levels of performance and interactivity for engineers and designers, enabling shorter production cycles, and faster time to market.

Featuring NVIDIA's ground-breaking unified architecture, the Quadro FX 3700 by PNY professional graphics board dynamically allocates geometry, shading, pixel processing, and compute power to deliver optimized GPU performance while enabling Energy Star power savings. The reference standard for Shader Model 4.0, Quadro FX 3700 enables a higher level of performance and realistic effects for OpenGL and next generation DirectX 10 industry-leading professional applications.

Offering outstanding performance and quality, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 by PNY delivers 512MB frame buffer memory, 51.2GB/sec. memory bandwidth, 256-bit memory interface and support for ultra high-resolution panels up to 2560x1600 for ultimate productivity.

Memory Size512MB
Memory Interface256-bit
Graphics Memory Bandwidth51.2GB/sec.
Graphics BusPCI Express x16
Product Specifications
  • 512MB GDDR3 frame buffer
  • 256-bit memory interface
  • 51.2 GB/sec memory bandwidth
  • Twin dual-link DVI-I 1.0 display connectors
  • 3-pin mini-DIN stereo connector
  • Single NVIDIA SLI 26-pin edge connector
  • Single 6-pin PCI Express power connector
  • PCI Express x16 bus interface
  • 78 W maximum power consumption
  • Auxiliary power connector – yes, 1
  • Active fansink thermal management
  • ATX form factor, 4.38" (H) x 9.0" (L)
  • Number of slots, 1
  • NVIDIA SLI™ technology: Yes
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 by PNY Architecture
  • 128-bit color precision
  • Unlimited fragment instruction
  • Unlimited vertex instruction
  • 3D volumetric texture support
  • 12 pixels per clock rendering engine
  • Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
  • Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
  • Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
  • Hardware accelerated clipping planes
  • 3rd generation occlusion culling
  • 16 textures per pixel in fragment programs
  • Window ID clipping functionality
  • Hardware accelerated line stippling
Shading Architecture
  • Full Shader Model 4.0 (OpenGL 2.1/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 2.1 and DirectX 10 support
  • Open source compiler
Display Resolution Support
  • Dual-link DVI-I outputs drive two digital displays at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz
  • Internal 400MHz DACs drive two analog displays up to 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz
Minimum System Requirements
  • Windows® 7, Vista, XP SP3, Linux®, or Solaris®
  • PCIe x16 expansion slot
  • 1GB or more of system memory, 2GB recommended
  • 200MB of available disk space for full driver installation
  • Blu-ray, DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive
  • DisplayPort, DVI or VGA compatible display(s)
128-Bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Enables sophisticated mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality. Full IEEE 32-bit floating-point precision per color component (RGBA) delivers millions of color variations with the broadest dynamic range.

32-Bit Floating Point Precision
Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through 32-bit floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.

32-Bit Filtering and Blending
Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.

512MB GDDR3
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.

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.

Fast 3D Texture Transfer
Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric dataset.

Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 32x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies", resulting in highly realistic scenes.

GPU Computing
NVIDIA CUDA provides a C language environment and tool suite in combination with high performance visualization unleashes new capabilities to solve highly complex challenges such as real-time ray tracing and interactive volume rendering.

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.

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.

Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back
Up to 2.4GB/sec pixel read-back performance delivers massive host throughput.

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
NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs introduce infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control, removing the previous limits on complexity, and structure of shader programs. NVIDIA Quadro FX GPUs deliver sophisticated effects never before imagined for real-time graphics systems.

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 Technology
NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology is the combination of high-definition video processors and software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for SD and HD video content. Features include, high-quality scaling, spatial temporal de-interlacing, inverse telecine, and high quality HD video playback from DVD.

NVIDIA Unified 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® hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are designed to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing.

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).

PCI Express Certified
PCI Express is a new Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering greater than 2GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

Powerwall
NVIDIA's single-system powerwall technology allows any application to be projected on a dual-channel powerwall with sophisticated edge blending in order to achieve uniform luminosity. Powerwall works transparently with any application.

Quad Buffered Stereo
Offers enhanced visual experience for professional applications that demand stereo viewing capability.

Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Antialiasing (RG FSAA)
The rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm introduces far greater sophistication in the sampling pattern, significantly increasing color accuracy and visual quality for edges and lines, reducing "jaggies" while maintaining performance.

Dual Dual-Link Digital Display Connectors
Dual dual-link TMDS transmitters support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz on each panel) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Ultra quiet design
Acoustics lower than most desktops at sub 40db for a quiet desktop environment.Compatible with Industry Standard Architectures
Compatible with x86 32 and 64-bit microprocessor architectures and operating systems from Intel/AMD and Microsoft/Linux.

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.
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