NVIDIA Corp. today announced NVIDIA Quadro FX 470, the first integrated professional motherboard GPU, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 Low Profile (Quadro FX 370 LP), an entry-level Quadro graphics board for small form factor systems. The company says the products honor its commitment to tailor the Quadro professional line to the specific needs of the end user, delivering high performance and flexibility at entry-level pricing for CAD and digital content creation applications.
‘In today’s competitive global marketplace, engineers, traders, designers and power office users demand more functionality and reliability from their desktop computing solutions,’ comments Jeff Brown, general manager of professional services for NVIDIA. ‘The Quadro FX 470 and the Quadro FX 370 LP are precisely tested, certified and designed to maximize productivity and deliver the cost-effective, professional-quality solution these users require on a daily basis.’
The Quadro FX 470 motherboard GPU and Quadro FX 370 LP feature 128-bit precision graphics pipeline, 32-bit floating point precision, filtering and blending, advanced color compression and early z-culling for improved bandwidth and rendering efficiency, and full-scene antialiasing. Additional features include
unified GPU architecture, NVIDIA CUDA technology, Shader Model 4.0 support,
NVIDIA nView advanced display software and I/O scalability and performance.
Both systems are certified for key DCC and CAD applications from independent software vendors such as Autodesk and Adobe. Designed to fit seamlessly in a space-saving configuration, the Quadro FX 370 LP GPU carries a suggested retail price of $149 and offers professional graphics performance with fanless cooling for a quieter work environment. The Quadro FX 470 GPU expands end-customer access to professional graphics by enabling systems to achieve a price point under $700. For more information on NVIDIA Quadro technologies and products, go to www.nvidia.com/quadro.
