NextDimension Workstation Features Dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

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NextComputing, creators of the first FlexTop computer, the NextDimension, have announced the availability of Dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 graphic boards by PNY Technologies inside this portable, graphics engineering super computer. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 alone brings unsurpassed GPU capabilities and SLI support, 256MB of GDDR3 RAM, stereo and dual dual-link DVI connectors, suited for high-end CAD/CAM, DCC, and Visualization markets. Performance specs of each card: 54 sgs-04, 71 proe-03, 42 sw- 01, and 44 3dsmax-03. SLI enabled, performance can increase by 2X dependent upon the application.

NextComputing's NextDimension combines Dual, Dual-Core Opteron Processors by AMD with the capabilities of two cards to address the problems of CPU bottlenecks, long a complaint of graphics engineers utilizing extremely high-res 3D applications including features like pixel and vertex shading. 3D performance in many CAD applications is dependent upon the workstation's CPU. Throwing more graphics power at CAD applications alone will not solve the problem if the workstation's CPU is limited. NVIDIA has worked with ISVs to enable its OpenGL implementations to reduce the CPU bottleneck by "off loading" processing tasks to the GPU. Combine this with dual, Dual Core 2.2 GHz Opteron processors by AMD, and you get maximum thru-put from both AMD's Hyper Transport technology and the renowned PCI Express x16 bus, more space on the CPU, better graphics performance, as well as higher speed memory availability.

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