NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 BY PNY Technologies Part No. VCQFX4700X2-PCIE-PB User Guide PNY Technologies, Inc. 299 Webro Rd. Parsippany, NJ 07054-0218 Tel: 408.567.5500 Fax: 408.855.0680 Features and specifications subject to change without notice. The PNY logo are registered trademarks of PNY Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 2010 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
NVIDIA Quadro FX4700 X2 by PNY Technologies Part No. VCQFX4700X2-PCIE-PB Table of Contents Overview 3 Key Features 4 Output Connectors 4 Internal Connectors and Headers 4 Memory 4 Display Support 4 GPU Description 4 Performance 4 Display 4 NVIDIA Quadro FX4700 X2 Bus Interface 5 Operating System Support 5 Vertex Processing 5 Pixel Processing 5 Configuration 5 Mechanical Specification 6 Placement of Standard I/O Connectors 6 Power Specification 7 Power by Rail 7 Displays modes 8 Display supported 8 WHQL Certifications 8 NVIDIA Quadro FX4700 X2 by PNY Technologies Overview NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 2
NVIDIA Quadro FX4700 X2 by PNY Technologies Part No. VCQFX4700X2-PCIE-PB Overview NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY Technologies is an ultra high performance graphic board designed to handle massive datasets and specialized needs for the Visualization & Simulation, Oil & Gas Exploration and Broadcast & Film markets. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY Technologies offers two NVIDIA 4700 GPUs on a single board with four dual link DVI monitor outputs and 1GB GDDR3 frame buffer memory per GPU. With over 2 GB memory this ultra high end board delivers high throughput for interactive visualization of large models, high-performance for real time processing of large textures and frames and enables the highest quality and resolution full-scene anti aliasing (FSAA). The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY professional graphics board is a PCI Express full-height (4.376 inches by 10.50 inches) form factor dual stack board design based on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 GPU, and is targeted as a PCI Express based high-performance scalable and flexible graphics solution for professional workstation applications. Designed to meet the requirements of the most challenging visual computing applications, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY Technologies is the first graphic board to offer quad dual link DVI display support. This allows professional users to maximize their display real estate by driving four 30 ultra-high resolution (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz) digital flat panels. Utilizing a single x16 PCI Express motherboard slot, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY allows SLI Frame Rendering, SLI Multiview and SLI AA mode functionality. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY offers 1 GB of 136-pin ball grid array (BGA) GDDR3 memory per GPU (2 GB total) and supports up to four CRTs or digital flat panels. Certified on all industry-leading CAD, Geo-seismic and visualization applications, NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 delivers a full 128-bit floating point pipeline and 32-bit floating point precision, setting the standard for the industry s highest workstation quality. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 3
Key Features Twelve layer PCB design PCI Express x16 form factor card Physical dimensions: 4.376 inches 10.50 inches PCI Express Gen2 x16 system interface Power: 236.12 Watt Output Connectors Four dual link DVI-I connectors 3-pin mini-din stereo connector Internal Connectors and Headers NVIDIA SLI 26-pin edge connector 6-pin PCI Express power connectors on main board 8-pin PCI Express power connectors on daughter board 2-pin SPDIF audio input connector Memory Interface: 256-bit Total frame buffer: 2 GB (1 GB per GPU) Sixteen pieces 16M 32 GDDR3 BGA136 SDRAM (eight per board) Display Support Dual 400 MHz integrated RAMDACs Maximum resolution over VGA port 2048 1536 32 bpp at 85 Hz Dual dual-link internal TMDS (DVI 1.0) Maximum resolution over digital port (single GPU and SLI mode) 2560 1600 32 bpp at 60 Hz (reduced blanking) GPU Description The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY graphics board is architected with two NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 graphics processing units (GPUs), NVIDIA s ultra high-end professional solutions graphics GPU. Like all NVIDIA Quadro professional products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 GPU offers high-end features such as: Performance Full 128-bit floating point precision pipeline 12-bit sub-pixel precision 8 pixels per clock rendering engine Hardware anti-aliased points and lines Hardware OpenGL overlay planes Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting Hardware accelerated clipping planes 3rd generation occlusion culling 16 textures per pixel Shader model 4.0 and DirectX 10 support OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector) High-Performance OpenGL Hardware Accelerated Pixel Read back x16 PCI Express bus interface Display High-precision scan out 32-bit floating point color precision per component 2 Integrated TMDS per PCB Four analog CRT, Four analog flat panels, or Four digital flat panel NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 4
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 Bus Interface Fast GPU to host transfers (PCI Express Gen. 2 deliver 8GB per second in both upstream and down stream data transfer) Error tolerant bus interface Operating System Support Windows XP Windows 7 / Windows Vista Linux Vertex Processing Full support for Shader Model 4.0/DirectX 10 Displacement mapping Vertex processing can access texture Dynamic flow control Branching, call and return Vertex frequency stream divider Pixel Processing Full support for Shader Model 4.0/DirectX 10 65,536 instruction pixel shader programs shatters PS2.0 limit of 96 Flow control loops and branding Highest precision pixel shading native, optimized FP32 processing Flexible data type support FP32, FP16 operand formats Multiple render target support Output to 4 destination color surfaces plus 1 depth surface 4xFP32 per pixel, per surface Other Features High-bandwidth digital content protection (HDCP) support NVIDIA CUDA support Advanced thermal management and thermal monitoring Comprehensive Microsoft DirectX 10 (and lower) and OpenGL 3.0 (and earlier) support DirectX and S3TC texture compression Configuration NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 X2 by PNY graphics board configuration. Table 1 Board Configuration Specification GPU Frame Buffer Memory I/O Memory Configuration Total Board Power Connectors Internal Connectors and Headers Description NVIDIA G92GL 2 GB ( 1GB per GPU) 256 bit 16M X 32 GDDR3 BGA 136 SDRAM 236.12 Watts 4 dual link DV-I, 3-pin din stereo 8-pin PCI Express power connector 6-pin PCI Express power connector 26-pin SLI edge connector G-Sync connector for genlock and frame lock Single 2-pin SPDIF audio input connector NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 5
Mechanical Specification The NVIDIA Quadro FX4700X2 by PNY graphic board conforms to the PCI Express (height 4.376 inches by 10.50 inches length) graphic add-in standard based on the NVIDIA Quadro FX4700 X2 GPU. Placement of Standard I/O Connectors Figure 3 shows the connector placement for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 by PNY graphic board. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 6
Power Specifications The NVIDIA Quadro FX4700X2 graphic board is a performance optimized high-end board. Power is taken from the PCI Express host bus and two (8 pin and 6 pin PCI express) power connectors. Without both auxiliary powers the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 will not boot. The total input power will be 236 W maximum. A power supply 600Watts + with (6 pin and 8 Pin PCI Express power channel) Configuration with external PCI Express power Connectors Power by Rail Table 6 power supply by rail numbers. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 7
Display Modes The NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 PCIe supports the following screen resolutions and refresh rates: Resolution Color bits Refresh rate (Hz) 320 x 200 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75 320 x 240 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75 400 x 300 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75 480 x 360 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75 512 x 384 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75 640 x 400 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 640 x 480 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75, 85, 100,120 800 x 600 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 1024 x 768 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 1152 x 864 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 1280 x 720 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 1280 x 960 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75, 85, 100, 120 1280 x 1024 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100, 120 1600 x 900 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 75, 85, 100 1600 x 1200 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100 1792 x 1344 8, 16, 32 60, 75 1856 x 1392 8, 16, 32 60, 75 1920 x 1080 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 100 1920 x 1200 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85, 1920 x 1440 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85 2048 x 1536 8, 16, 32 60, 70, 72, 75, 85 2560 x 1600 8, 16, 32 60 Displays Supported Maximum Analog Resolution Maximum Digital Resolution Single-head 2048 x 1536 2560 x 1600 (60 Hz) Dual-head 2048 x 1536 each 2560 x 1600 each (60 Hz) Quad-head 2048 x 1536 each 2560 x 1600 each (60 Hz) WHQL Certifications Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL): WHQL certified driver for Windows7 and Windows XP Agencies Australian Communication Authority (ACA) Bureau of Standards, Metrology, and Inspection (BSMI) Conformité Européenne (CE) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Interference-Causing Equipment Standard (ICES) Macrovision Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) Underwriters Laboratories (UL) For use with UL Listed Personal computers Voluntary Control Council for Interference ISO 9241 Notice ALL PNY OR NVIDIA PROVIDED DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS, REFERENCE BOARDS, FILES, DRAWINGS, DIAGNOSTICS, LISTS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS (TOGETHER AND SEPARATELY, MATERIALS ) ARE BEING PROVIDED AS IS. PNY AND NVIDIA MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE MATERIALS, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Information furnished is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, PNY and NVIDIA assume no responsibility for the consequences of use of such information, or for any infringement of patents or other rights of third parties that may result from its use. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of PNY or NVIDIA. Specifications mentioned in this publication are subject to change without notice. This publication supersedes and replaces all information previously supplied. NVIDIA Quadro by PNY products are not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices or systems. NVIDIA Quadro FX 4700 X2 User Guide 8