Quadro professional card fx1800 graphics card performance hpz800 workstation graphics card

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	-
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.