NVIDIA Quadro FX available on IBM Intellistation Workstations
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The fully programmable graphics engine and the industry's first true 128-bit floating-point precision bring many visualisation breakthroughs to today's content development, CAD/CAM and other professional applications. IBM Intellistation workstations with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 graphics solutions will provide customers with the programmability and performance needed to make production rendering an integral part of real-time design. The combined graphics and platform technologies will contribute to reduced design cycles, increased productivity and shortened time to market.
"Our workstations support a broad range of computer and graphics-intensive applications," said Rick Rudd, director of Intellistation Strategy for IBM. "The power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX series complements the power of the Intellistation and will provide professionals with a substantial improvement in their visualisation capabilities."
"The newest NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics solutions deliver an unprecedented combination of performance and visual quality," said Jeff Brown, director of workstation product management at NVIDIA. "Today's workstation applications can take advantage of our high precision and full scene antialiasing, at resolutions supporting IBM's T221 flat panels. The IBM-NVIDIA platform is an effective entry into this emerging world of enhanced visualisation."
The NVIDIA Quadro FX series of workstation graphics solutions deliver industry-leading performance and innovative features for today's professionals. The NVIDIA solutions support advanced shader operations and are designed to accelerate OpenGL® and Microsoft® DirectX® applications by implementing workstation-specific functionality including hardware overlay planes, hardware-accelerated antialiased points and lines, advanced memory management and other features critical to professional applications.
The new IBM Intellistation workstations featuring NVIDIA Quadro FX series graphics solutions are powered by Intel® Pentium® 4 and Xeonä processors. The workstations also incorporate proven technologies from the IBM eServer xSeries, designed to optimise performance, system reliability and availability. For more information on the new systems, which are now available, visit http://www.ibm.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video games consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,400 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.nvidia.co.uk.