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NVidia Quadro FX 5500 Graphics Accelerator

Next Generation Product

No Longer Orderable. It is superceded by the next generation NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Graphics Accelerator.

The NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5500 Graphics Accelerator shatter the performance limits and enables unmatched functionality for the most demanding applications. Up to two FX 5500 Graphics Acclerators can be installed to work independently or combined in SLI-mode, to scale graphics performance, in a single Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation.


At a Glance

  • Ultra high-end workstation graphics accelerator for professional MCAD, DCC, and Scientific Visualization
  • 128-bit floating point pipeline
  • 8 pixel-per-clock rendering engine
  • Hardware accelerated lines, planes, and lighting
  • Programmability features such as vertex processing, pixel shading
  • Full support for Microsoft Shader Model 3.0, Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (and earlier) and OpenGL 2.0 (and earlier)
  • Stereoscopic video output through a 3-pin DIN connector to carry sync signal to stereo shutter glasses devices
  • Drives up to two LCDs in digital mode up to 3840 x 2400 at 24Hz
  • Up to two NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 Graphics Accelerators may be installed in the Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, to work independently or combined in SLI-mode

Key Applications

  • Design
  • Modeling
  • Simulation
  • Animation
  • Imaging
  • Mapping

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Key Industries

  • Mechanical design and analysis (MCAD/MCAE)
  • Geo-technical engineering and geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Digital Content Creation (DCC)
  • General sciences
  • Health care

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