Quadro FX 4500 SLI: The King of Professional Graphics Card Market

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SLI Performance Unveiled

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 12/14/2005 | 09:48 PM ]

Not only gaming community can benefit from such performance increasing technologies as multi-GPU platforms. For example, a pair of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics cards can be united just as conventional NVIDIA GeForce-series graphics accelerators. While with the case of the GeForce family this will benefit gaming experience, NVIDIA SLI platform with Quadro graphics cards installed is aimed at other audience, such as graphics designers.

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3D Professor has taken a look at a system which can be called as graphics designer dream machine. The examined workstation is based on Supermicro H8DCE mainboard sporting a pair of dual core AMD Opteron 254 microprocessors, accompanied by a total of 4GB of Corsair PC3200 ECC registered memory and two NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 graphics cards running in SLI mode. In order to determine the benefit of adding an extra GPU to the system the author tested the platform in a series of benchmarks both with single graphics card installed and in SLI mode.

“Within no less of a period than 6 months NVIDIA’s might and power has brought to the professional market a range of cards which are second to none with solid robust driver sets supporting them all.  It further goes to prove how prompt they are at maintaining the uptake of new technology and delivering it - most importantly on time to the ever demanding professional.  This is a feat that has to be admired and prized and full kudos has to be awarded to their engineers and driver team who just keep pushing their cards further and further to the extreme,” writes 3D Professor.

• 3D Professor: EXTREME High Speed Nvidia and Supermicro.