DELL 0WH242 Quadro FX 3500 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Workstation Video Card

IntroductionThe NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 professional 3D graphics card is a mid-to-high-end workstation graphics for CAD, DCC and Scientific applications, offering 256 MB high bandwidth video memory and ultra-high resolution graphics.

Featuring the performance, programmability, precision and quality of Quadro FX products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 delivers 256MB frame buffer memory, 42.2 GB/s memory bandwidth, 256-bit memory interface and support for ultra high-resolution panels up to 3840x2400. The Quadro FX 3500 offers a new level of interactivity for engineers and designers enabling exceptional performance, features and photo-realistic image quality leading to shorter production cycles and faster time-to-market.

Performance & Features

Features include an array of parallel vertex engines, fully programmable pixel pipelines, a high-speed graphics memory bus, and next-generation crossbar memory architecture:

• 256MB G-DDR3 graphics memory
• Two Dual Link DVI-I + 3-pin Mini DIN stereo output
• OpenGL quad-buffered stereo
• Rotated-Grid FSAA
• High Precision Dynamic Range Technology
• Unlimited Vertex & Pixel programmability
• 128-bit IEEE floating-point precision graphics pipeline
• 32-bit floating point color precision per component
• Hardware overlays
• Hardware accelerated anti-aliased points and lines
• Two-sided lighting
• Occlusion culling
• Advanced full-scene anti-aliasing
• Optimized and certified for OpenGL® 2.0 and DirectX® 9.0 applications
• Multi-display productivity
• PCIe x16 bus

Technical Specifications

Form Factor	ATX
Graphics Controller	NVIDIA NV71GL-U
Bus Type	PCI Express x16
Memory	256MB 700MHz GDDR3 SDRAM unified frame buffer, Z-buffer and Texture storage
Connectors	2 dual-link DVI-I + 3-pin Mini DIN stereo output
Display resolution support	Dual integrated analog display controllers supporting up to two analog displays at 2048x1536 @ 85Hz on both displays or dual digital displays at 1920x1200 (single-link) and 3840x2400 (dual-link). NVIEW advanced multi-display desktop and application management seamlessly integrated into Microsoft® Windows®
RAMDAC	Dual 400MHz integrated
Architecture features	256-bit memory interface 128-bit IEEE floating-point precision graphics pipeline 128-bit color precision 12-bit sub-pixel precision 8x FSAA at 1920x1200, 4x at 2048x1536, rotated grid FSAA sampling algorithm Hardware accelerated anti-aliased points and lines Hardware OpenGL overlay planes Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting Hardware accelerated clipping planes 3rd generation occlusion culling 3D volumetric texture support Quad-buffered stereo Dual Link DVI enabling driving digital displays up to 3840x2400 (24Hz) SLI Link
Shading architecture	Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 2.0/DirectX 9.0c 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
Supported graphics APIs	OpenGL 2.0 DirectX 9.0
Available graphics drivers	Microsoft Windows XP Professional qualified drivers may be preloaded or available from the HP support Web site: http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/software_drivers.html.
Maximum Resolution	Dual DVI-I output - drives dual digital displays at resolutions up to 1920x1200 @ 60Hz (single-link) and 3840x2400 @ 24Hz (dual-link).
	Internal 400MHz RAMDACs - drives dual analog displays up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz each