NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000 SDI by PNY – High-End Integrated Graphics to Video Solution for Broadcast, Video and Film
Offering 2.0 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory, 256 NVIDIA CUDA™ parallel processing cores and built on the innovative Fermi architecture, the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 SDI by PNY is a true technological breakthrough delivering excellent performance across a broad range of broadcast, video and film pre- and post-production applications that require the compositing of 3D or other computer generated graphics in real-time with 2K, HD and SD video.
The Quadro 4000 supports fast double precision to ensure the accuracy and fidelity of your work, while the Quadro SDI Output card allows broadcast, video and film production, post-production, and finishing professionals to preview the results of 3D compositing, editing, and color grading in real-time on high definition broadcast monitors. The 8-, 10-, or 12-bit SDI generated from programmable graphics enables a direct connection to broadcast monitors, switchers, take decks, or SDI projectors.
| GPU Memory Size |
2.0 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Interface |
256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth |
89.6 GB/s |
| CUDA Parallel Processing Cores |
256 |
| High Performance Double Precision |
Yes |
| Quadro 4000 Display Connectors |
DVI-I DL + DP + DP + ST |
| Quadro SDI Output Card Connectors |
2 SDI Outputs, Fill and Key (BNCs) + Genlock (BNC) |
| Warranty |
3 Years |
| PNY Part # |
VCQ4000SDI-PB |
PNY provides unsurpassed service and commitment to its professional graphics customers offering: 3 year warranty, pre and post-sales support, dedicated Quadro Field Application engineers and direct tech support hot lines. In addition, PNY delivers a complete solution including the appropriate adapters, cables, brackets, driver CD and documentation to ensure a quick and successful install.
| GPU Memory |
2.0 GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Interface |
256-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth |
89.6 GB/s |
| CUDA Parallel Processing Cores |
256 |
| High Performance Double Precision |
Yes |
| Quadro 4000 Power Consumption |
142 W |
| SDI Output Card Power Consumption |
7 W |
| Quadro 4000 Physical Dimensions |
4.376" H x 9.50" L Single Slot |
| SDI Output Card Physical Dimensions |
3.875" H x 6.60" L Single Slot |
| Quadro 5000 Display Connectors |
DVI-I DL + DP + DP + ST |
| Number of Displays Supported |
2 |
| DP |
Yes |
| DVI |
Yes |
| VGA |
Yes |
| SDI Output Card Connectors |
3 BNC (SDI Fill, SDI Key, Genlock) |
| Quadro 4000 Graphics Bus |
PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
| Quadro SDI Output Graphics Bus |
Any available slot |
| Quadro 4000 Thermal Solution |
Active |
| Quadro SDI Output Thermal Solution |
Passive |
| 3D Vision Pro |
Support via 3-pin Mini-DIN |
| Maximum Digital Resolution |
2560 x 1600 at 60Hz |
| Graphics APIs |
OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0 |
| Compute APIs |
NVIDIA CUDA, DirectCompute and OpenCL |
| Warranty |
3 Year Warranty |
| PNY Part Number |
VCQ4000SDI-PB |
3D Graphics Architecture
- Scalable geometry architecture
- Hardware tessellation engine
- NVIDIA GigaThread engine with dual copy engines
- OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11.0 and Shader Model 5.0
- Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
- Up to 16K x 16K texture and render processing
- 128-bit floating point performance
- 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
- 64x full scene antialiasing (FSAA)
- Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)
- DivX 3.11 or later and Flash 10.1 or later
- Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration supports HD picture-in-picture playback
Advanced Display Features
- 30-bit color (10-bit per each red, green and blue channel)
- Support for any combination of two connected displays
- Dual DisplayPort resolution up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz or 1920 x 1200 at 120Hz
- DisplayPort to VGA adapter sold separately, PNY PN 91007808-T
- DisplayPort to DVI-DL adapter sold separately, PNY PN 91008126
- DisplayPort to HDMI adapters available from 3rd parties
- Full OpenGL quad buffered stereo support
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro support via dedicated 3-pin Mini-DIN stereo connector
- NVIDIA Mosaic multi-display technology
- NVIDIA NVIEW multi display desktop management software
DisplayPort and HDMI Digital Audio
- Support for Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), and MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AAC
- Data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz, and 192 KHz
- Word sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit
- HDMI digital audio requires the purchase of a 3rd party DisplayPort to HDMI adapter
SDI Output Card
- 2 channel fill or 1 channel fill + 1 channel key
- 8-, 10-, or 12-bit SDI output modes
- RGB 4:4:4
- YCrCb 4:2:2 or 4:4:4
- 2x YCrCb 4:2:2 + 4:2:2
- YCrCbA 4:2:2:4
- RGBA 4:4:4:4: (8-bit only)
- Supports RP188 time code
- 16 channels AES/EBU 24-bit 48 KHz audio per SDI stream
SDI Output Card 2K, HD, and SD Formats
- 480i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE259) NTSC
- 576i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE259) PAL
- 720p 23.98 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 50.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 59.94 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 60.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 1035i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE260)
- 1035i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE260)
- 1080i 47.96 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 48.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE295)
- 1080i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080PsF 23.98 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080PsF 24.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080PsF 25.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080PsF 29.97 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080PsF 30.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 23.976 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 2048x1080p 23.976 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080i 47.96 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080i 48.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 2048x1080i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows® 7, Vista®, XP SP3 or Linux®
- PCIe x16 expansion slot for Quadro 4000
- Any open slot for SDI Output Card
- 1GB or more of system memory, 2GB recommended
- Blu-ray, DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive
- DisplayPort, DVI, VGA, or SDI compatible display(s)
GPU FEATURES
Next-Generation NVIDIA® CUDA™ Architecture
Breakthrough NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, code named Fermi, tightly integrates advanced visualization and compute features delivering performance that greatly accelerates professional workflows.
NVIDIA Parallel DataCache™
Supports a true cache hierarchy combined with on-chip shared memory. L1 and L2 caches drive exceptional throughput, accelerating features such as real-time ray tracing, physics and texture filtering.
2.5 GB of GDDR5 Memory with Ultra-Fast Bandwidth
Large 2.5 GB GPU memory with fast bandwidth enables display of complex models and scenes, as well as computation of large datasets.
Fast 64-Bit Floating Point Precision
Industry's fastest double precision floating point performance enabling accurate results on mission-critical applications, including computer-aided-design, finite element analysis to computational fluid dynamics.
Error Correcting Code (ECC) Memory
Meets strict requirements for mission critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability for workstations. Offers protection of data in memory to enhance application data integrity.
NVIDIA GigaThread™ Engine
Provides up to 10x faster context switching compared to previous generation architectures, concurrent kernel execution, and improved thread block scheduling.
Dual Copy Engines
Enables the highest rates of parallel data processing and concurrent throughput between the GPU and host, accelerating techniques such as ray tracing, color grading and physical simulation.
NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine™
Dramatically improves geometry performance across a broad range of CAD, DCC and medical applications, enabling you to work interactively with models and scenes that are an order of magnitude more complex than ever before.
Fast 3D Texture Transfer
Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric datasets.
Hardware 3D Window Clipping
Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new solution because all Quadro products work with the same driver software.
Ultra-Quiet Design
Acoustics lower than 40db for an ultra-quiet desktop environment.
SDI FEATURES
Uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-Bit SDI Output
Enables on-air broadcast, video production and post-production professionals to composite and output live video and graphics to true, uncompressed 12-bit SDI in 2K, SD, or HD resolutions and allows direct connection to a broadcast monitor, switcher, tape deck, or SDI projector.
Ancillary Data Support
Support for ancillary data channel (for audio, time code, etc.) is available through an NVIDIA API. Support for the introduction of ancillary data into the outgoing SDI video is also supported. This ancillary data can include up to 16 channels of embedded 24-bit digital audio as defined by SMPTE 272M and SMPTE 299M as well as timecode.
2D Video Pass Through Compositing
2D Video Compositing enables incoming video to be passed through and alpha composited, luma keyed, or chroma keyed with the Quadro rendered graphics image on the outgoing SDI video.
Genlock (House Synchronization)
One genlock (Standard BNC) connector (digital or analog) provides connectivity to a video sync source for SMPTE standard (digital, black burst, tri-level) synchronization. Expanded cross sync functionality permits an incoming house signal to synchronize a much larger number of video output signal formats
IMAGE QUALITY
Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 64X FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies," resulting in unparalleled image quality and highly realistic scenes.
GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5.0
Quadro Tessellation Engines automatically generates finely detailed geometry, for cinematic quality environments and scenes, without sacrificing performance.
16K Texture and Render Processing
The ability to texture from and render to 16K x 16K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.
NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.
DISPLAY FEATURES
High-Quality Display Connectors
Attaches to ultra-high-resolution digital panels producing phenomenal photorealistic image quality from a range of display connectors. The Quadro 4000 GPU simultaneously supports two active display channels including DVI-I dual link and DisplayPort at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. The included DVI to VGA adapter supports resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz. HDMI 1.3a compliant displays can be driven with a 3rd party adapter (must be purchased separately) at resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz.
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.
NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro™ Stereoscopic Solution
Advanced active shutter glasses deliver crystal-clear stereoscopic 3D visualization for the most immersive experience. RF technology enables a range of environments ranging from collaborative work spaces to theaters. 3D Vision Pro solution sold separately.
OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support
OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo offers professional applications the capability of smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience.
Professional 3D Stereo Synchronization
Enables robust control of stereo effect through a dedicated 3-pin mini-din connection between the graphics card and 3D stereo hardware.
SOFTWARE SUPPORT
Programming the CUDA Parallel Computing Architecture
General purpose GPU computing using standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, and emerging APIs such as OpenCL and Direct Compute. This broad adoption of CUDA is accelerating techniques like ray tracing, video and image processing, and computation fluid dynamics.
Cg Programming
Programmable GPU leverages Cg high-level, open-standard shading language to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes and designs.
Microsoft® Windows® 7 Support
Take advantage of all the new and compelling features included with Windows 7, delivering unprecedented application performance, advanced visual realism, and premium reliability with superior application compatibility on mobile and desktop workstations.
Shader Model 5.0 Programmability
Infinite length vertex programs and dynamic flow control remove the previous limits on OpenGL and DirectX shader programs, delivering sophisticated effects never before imagined.
NVIDIA Graphics API Extensions
NVIDIA provides a set of extensions to standard graphics APIs for Linux and Windows, enabling applications to take maximum advantage of state-of-the-art GPU capabilities
NVIDIA Application Acceleration Engines Support
Supercharge application performance and capabilities with highly optimized software modules, including SceniX™, OptiX™, and CompleX™, for advanced creative and investigative possibilities.
NVIDIA Mosaic Mode Technology
NVIDIA Mosaic Mode enables transparent scaling of any application across up to 8 display channels, while delivering full performance.
NVIDIA NVIEW™ Multi-Display Technology
NVIEW advanced display software delivers maximum flexibility for single-large display or multi-display options, providing unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience for increased productivity.
Package Contains
- NVIDIA Quadro 4000 by PNY professional graphics board
- NVIDIA Quadro by PNY SDI Output board
- Stereo connector bracket
- DVI to DVI crossover cable
- 20-pin ribbon connector cable
- DisplayPort to DVI-SL adapter cable
- Two 6-pin auxiliary power connector cables
- 4-pin auxiliary power connector cable
- Driver and documentation CD
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