Quadro2 EX $159.95

 PNY Quadro2 EX
The Quadro2 EX is an entry 3D graphics solution equipped with a complete set of workstation capabilities for the mainstream professional. Based on NVIDIA's second-generation GPU technology, the Quadro2 EX™ board features a high performance 256-bit graphics pipeline for 2D and 3D rendering, and Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) for enhanced on-screen image quality. The Quadro2 EX includes a standard VGA connector. In addition, the Quadro2 EX™ supports NVIDIA's Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which provides driver compatibility with past, present, and future NVIDIA graphics processors.

The Quadro2 EX board requires an AGP4 interface and supports AGP 4X/2X with Fast Writes.


KEY FEATURES

  • Second-generation 256-bit GPU architecture
  • Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
  • 32-bit color
  • 32-bit Z/stencil buffer
  • Integrated hardware transform engine
  • Integrated hardware lighting engine
  • NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer™ enabling real-time per-pixel effects
  • Cube environment mapping
  • Microsoft® DirectX and S3TC texture compression
  • High performance 2D rendering engine
  • Professional-quality driver software featuring
  • NVIDIA's Unified Driver
  • Architecture (UDA)
  • Professional-application compatibility

CONFIGURATION:
32MB SDRAM unified local buffer

PERFORMANCE:
350M pixels/sec peak rendering rate
20M triangles/sec
8-tap anisotropic texture filtering at full speed

KEY COMPONENTS:
NVIDIA Quadro2 EX GPU

GPU INTERNAL BUS WIDTH:
256-bit

GPU CORE CLOCK SPEED:
175MHz

MEMORY BUS:
128-bit SDR

MEMORY:
32MB SDR @ 166MHz
2.7 GB/sec peak bandwidth

DAC:
350MHz

SUPPORTED GRAPHICS
APIs: DirectX 7 and below
OpenGL 1.2 and below

TARGET APPLICATIONS:
CAD/CAM/CAID
PTC ProEngineer
Autodesk AutoCAD
Alias|Wavefront Design Studio
Dassault Catia
Solidworks
SDRC
EDS Unigraphics
ESRI
Digital Content Creation
discreet/Kinetix 3D Studio Max
Alias|Wavefront Maya
Avid SOFTIMAGE|3D
Newtek Lightwave 3D
Adobe Photoshop
Nichimen Mirai

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Windows® XP (WHQL Certified)

Windows® 2000 (WHQL Certified)

Windows NT® (WHQL Certified)