30-Bit Color Fidelity 30-bit color fidelity (10-bits per color) enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range. CUDA Architecture NVIDIA® CUDA™ is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for Quadro GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as such as interactive ray tracing, finite element analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance. 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). SLI Multi OS NVIDIA SLI Multi OS allows a user to run multiple Windows or Linux workstation environments from a single system, with each Operating System directly assigned to a Quadro graphics solution. Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) -- which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images. Single Dual-Link Digital Display Connector Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @24Hz) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images. Ultra quiet design Engineered to deliver high performance with low acoustics for a quiet desktop environment. 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. Package Contains - NVIDIA Quadro FX 580 by PNY graphics board - One DP to DVI-D adapter - One DVI-I to VGA adapter - Drivers for Windows XP and Vista (Linux available on web) - Detailed Installation Guide - QuickStart Installation Guide - Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™) Supported Platforms - Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ (64-bit and 32-bit) - Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit) - Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit) - Linux® – full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit) Solaris® - AMD64, Intel EM64T - PCI Express 2.0 support Minimum System Requirements - PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Opteron® class processor or higher - Open PCI Express x16 lane slot - Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Linux, or Solaris - 1GB system memory - 100MB of available disk space for full installation - CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive - VGA, DVI-I or DisplayPort compatible display - 450W power supply SKUs and EAN - Retail: VCQFX580-PCIE-PB - EAN: 3536403336523 - Bulk (unit SKU, only sold by carton of 10 cards): VCQFX580-PCIEBLK-1