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NVIDIA^® Quadro^® 4000 for Mac - Do More, Faster

If you're an artist, designer, or video professional with an Apple Mac Pro, you can accelerate your entire workflow with the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac graphics solution. Built on the innovative NVIDIA Fermi architecture and delivering excellent graphics performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows you to do more, faster.

In addition to the latest Mac OS X-based applications, Boot Camp delivers full Quadro benefits and acceleration when running professional Windows applications.

GPU Memory Size	2 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	89.6 GB/s
CUDA Parallel Processing Cores	256
Display Connectors	DVI-DL + DP + Stereo
Warranty	3 Years
PNY Part #	VCQ4000MAC-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.

Frame Buffer Memory	2 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	89.6 GB/s
CUDA Parallel Processing Cores	256
Max Power Consumption	142 W
Physical Dimensions	4.376” H x 9.50” L Single Slot
Display Connectors	DVI-DL + DP + ST
Number of Displays Supported	2
DisplayPort	Yes
DVI	Yes
VGA	Yes
Maximum Digital Resolution	2560 x 1600 at 60Hz
Graphics Bus	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Thermal Solution	Active
3D Stereo	Support via 3-Pin Mini-DIN
Mac OS X Graphics APIs	OpenGL 2.1
Windows Graphics APIs	OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11.0 and Shader Model 5.0
Mac OS X Compute APIs	NVIDIA CUDA and OpenCL
Windows Compute APIs	NVIDIA CUDA, DirectCompute and OpenCL
Warranty	3 Year Warranty
PNY Part Number	VCQ4000MAC-PB

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Supported Platforms

Mac OS X 10.6.5 or later with MacPro3,1, MacPro4,1 or MacPro5,1 or later
Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit) through Boot Camp
Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit and 32-bit) through Boot Camp
Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit) through Boot Camp

3D Graphics Architecture

Scalable geometry architecture
Hardware tessellation engine
NVIDIA^® GigaThread™ engine with dual copy engines
Shader Model 5.0 (OpenGL 4.0 and DirectX 11)
Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
Up to 16K x16K texture and render processing
Transparent multisampling and super sampling
16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
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)

NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Processing Architecture

API support includes CUDA C, CUDA C++, DirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL, Java, Python, and Fortran
NVIDIA^® Parallel DataCache™ hierarchy (configurable L1 and unified L2 caches)
64 KB of RAM (configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1 cache)
Fully IEEE 754-2008 compliant fast 32- and 64-bit double precision floating point computation
Dual Warp Scheduler (schedules and dispatches simultaneously instructions from two independent warps)

Advanced Display Features

30-bit color (10-bit per each red, green, 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 1.1a with HDCP support
Single DVI-DL output 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 bracket
Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling
NVIDIA^® Mosaic™ multi-display technology
NVIDIA^® nView^® multi-display technology

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

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.

2.0 GB of GDDR5 Memory with Ultra-Fast Bandwidth
Large 2.0 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 enables accurate results on mission-critical applications, including computer aided design, finite element analysis or computational fluid dynamics.

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.

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.

Ultra-Quiet Design
Acoustics lower than 28db for an ultra-quiet desktop environment.

IMAGE QUALITY

Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 8X FSAA under Mac OS X dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies," resulting in unparalleled image quality and highly realistic scenes. Windows FSAA support extends up to 64X FSAA (running under Apple's Boot Camp utility).

GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5.0
Quadro Tessellation Engines automatically generate 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 for Mac GPU simultaneously supports two active display channels including DVI-DL and DisplayPort at resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. A DisplayPort to mini-DisplayPort adapter is included for Apple displays. 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.

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.

MAC OS X SOFTWARE SUPPORT

Core Image, Quartz Extreme, QuartzGL, and QuickTime X
Quadro 4000 for Mac driver software provides full GPU support for Core Image, Quartz Extreme, QuartzGL, and QuickTime X – accelerating everything from 2D graphics compositing and 3D rendering to video playback and encoding.

CUDA and OpenCL Parallel Computing Architectures
General purpose GPU computing using standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, also fully OpenCL compliant. CUDA and OpenCL accelerate digital content creation applications ranging from video editing and effects, to advanced rendering techniques such as ray tracing, and also significantly boosts the performance of scientific and technical solutions ranging from bioinformatics to computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis.

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 SOFTWARE SUPPORT (UNDER BOOT CAMP)

Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 Support
Take advantage of all the new and compelling features included with Windows 7, including unprecedented application performance, advanced visual realism, and platform stability with superior application compatibility.

CUDA, OpenCL and DirectCompute Parallel Computing Architectures
General purpose GPU computing using standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, also fully OpenCL and DirectCompute compliant. CUDA, OpenCL and DirectCompute support ensures that Quadro 4000 for Mac can dramatically accelerate any application that takes advantage of general purpose GPU computing, regardless of the API used to implement these features.

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.

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

Quadro 4000 for Mac professional graphics board
Stereo connector bracket
DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort adapter
DisplayPort to DVI-D SL adapter
DVI to VGA adapter
Auxiliary power cable
Driver CD with PDF documentation

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