As a mid-range product, advanced features such as SLI and SDI are not provided. However, FX 1800 has the essence of quadro: Cuda GPU computing.
Cuda (compute unified device architecture) is a new infrastructure that uses GPU to solve complex computing problems in business, industry, and science. It is a complete gpgpu solution that provides direct access interfaces for hardware, without the need to rely on graphical API interfaces to achieve GPU access in the traditional way. The architecture adopts a new computing architecture to use the hardware resources provided by the GPU, which provides a more powerful computing capability than the CPU for large-scale data computing applications. Cuda uses C language as the programming language to provide a large number of high-performance computing command development capabilities, enabling developers to build a more efficient intensive data computing solution based on the powerful computing capabilities of the GPU.
By using cuda, the graphics workstation can fully apply the powerful computing capabilities of quadro graphics cards.
Quadro FX 1800 is a mid-range product of the tenth generation Quadro
64 GPUs, 192-bit 768 MB gddr3 video memory, bandwidth up to 38.4 Gb/s, FX 1800 provides 30-bit color output (10-bit pixels), FX 1800 does not support SDI and SLI.
FX 1800 uses a PCI-E 2.0 x16 interface, with a maximum power consumption of 1800 W so that it only needs a single slot design, and FX also provides a new generation of output methods: two displayport interfaces and one duallink DVI-I interface, displayport has unique advantages over common DVI and HDMI interfaces.
Both the displayport interface (left) and the HDMI interface (right) are very small.
In terms of size, compared with DVI and D-sub, hdmi and displayport are undoubtedly very small, providing great convenience for applications on various devices. Like HDMI, displayport also allows audio and video signals to be transmitted over a single cable, supporting a variety of high-quality digital audio. But displayport can implement more {
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In addition, displayport can directly drive the panel for display, without passing the LVDS conversion circuit that will reduce the response time. Finally, it is also the most important thing: displayport is a fully open authorization technology, free of charge.
Quadro fx1800 is not as open as fx1700, but uses integrated heat dissipation. The radiator of the video card is placed on the right of the core. Because the package is too tight, we can only see the NVIDIA Quadro words on the front of the shell, and the Quadro fx1800 in the upper right corner shows its model.
We finally removed the wind guide (5 screws) of the shell. We can see that the internal structure of quadro fx1800 is relatively simple. A large area of the video card is covered by a heat sink.
Test Platform and test environment |
Test Group |
Category |
Quadro fx1800 Platform |
HP xw8600 Workstation |
Processor subsystem |
Processor |
Intel nehalem-EP e5540 |
Dual Intel Xeon e5430 |
Processor code |
Gainestown |
Harpertown |
Processor Encapsulation |
Socket 1366 LGA |
Socke 771 LGA |
Processor specifications |
Quad-core hyper-threading built-in memory controller |
Quad-core |
Processor Instruction Set |
MMX, SSE, sse2, sse3, ssse3, Sse4.1, sse4.2, em64t, vt |
MMX, SSE, sse2, sse3, ssse3, Sse4.1, em64t, vt |
Clock speed |
2.53 GHz |
2.66 GHz |
Processor External Bus |
QPI links: 2933 MHz |
FSB: 1333 MHz |
L1 D-Cache |
4x 32 KB 8-way collection Association |
4x 32 KB 8-way collection Association |
L1 I-Cache |
4x 32kb 4-way collection Association |
4x 32 KB 8-way collection Association |
L2 cache |
4x 256kb 8-way collection Association |
2x6 MB 24-way set Association |
L3 Cache |
8 Mb 16-way collection Association |
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Motherboard |
Motherboard Model |
Asus p6t6 ws revolution |
HP |
North Bridge chipset (MCH) |
Intel x58 |
Intel 5400 |
North Bridge Chip features |
Intel VT-D Technology |
24 MB Snoop Filter |
Memory Controller |
Built-in three-channel ddr3 Processor |
North Bridge integrated four-channel FB-DDR2 |
Memory |
1 GB ddr3 1066 SDRAM X3 |
2 GB FB-DDR2 667 SDRAM X4 |
System Disk Subsystem |
Disk Controller |
Lsi sas 3041e-r |
LSI sas1068e Controller |
Disk controller specifications |
SATA 3 Gbps X4 |
SAS 3 Gbps X8 |
Disk controller settings |
RAID 0 |
Hostraid 0 |
Disk controller driver |
Lsi sas 1.2820.3.00 |
LSI? SAS 2.23.0.64 |
Disk |
Seagate cheetah 15k. 5 St314655ss 146 GB 16 mb sas X2 |
Fujitsu Mba3300rc X2 |
Disk Specification |
15000 rpm 146 GB SAS 3 Gbps 16 MB Cache |
15000 rpm 300 GB SAS 3 Gbps 16 MB Cache |
Disk settings |
SATA 3 Gbps 50 GB system partition |
SAS 3 Gbps 50 GB system partition |
Graphics Subsystem |
Graphics card |
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800 |
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 |
Graphics card Parameters |
768 MB RAM |
768 MB RAM |
Graphics card driver |
NVIDIA Quadro 182.46 WHQL for Windows XP |
NVIDIA Quadro 181.20 WHQL for vista64 |
Software Environment |
Operating System |
Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32bit |
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 |
We have built a middle-end workstation platform using the Asus p6t6 ws revolution motherboard. In terms of processors, we chose the Xeon e5540 using the nehalem-EP core. This processor is currently a mainstream product in the nehalem-EP product line. It is also the processor just released by Intel and has powerful performance. In terms of hard disk, we chose Seagate cheetah 15k. 5 hard disk with a speed of 15000 rpm. We used two RAID 0 arrays to achieve better performance. In the test, we didn't use the Array Chip that comes with the p6t6 ws revolution motherboard, but used the lsi sas 3041e-r card, which is a 4-Port 3 Gbps SAS card, integrated with RAID 0, RAID 1, raid 1E, and 10E functions, more than enough can be used here.
It is worth mentioning that, in order to help you observe the performance improvement of quadro fx1800, we chose the HP xw8600 workstation for comparison. This workstation uses the Quadro fx4600 video card, it is a high-end product of the Quadro product line. NVIDIA describes it as "superior image quality ". However, due to the large differences in the test platform, the comparison data we provide here is for reference only.