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PNY Technologies(R)' New Family of NVIDIA Quadro(R) Professional Solutions Now Shipping

Posted on: Monday, 29 October 2007, 18:00 CDT

PNY Technologies, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of its brand new range of NVIDIA Quadro® FX by PNY professional graphics boards, based on NVIDIA's innovative unified GPU architecture for advanced visual computing. This new product line-up, which includes the aggressively priced entry-level Quadro FX 370, the Quadro FX 570 and the mid-range Quadro FX 1700, incorporate the industry-changing GPU technology introduced earlier this year in the ultra high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 and Quadro FX 4600 professional graphics boards. From top-to-bottom, NVIDIA Quadro FX by PNY professional graphics boards deliver superior performance, superb image quality, larger frame buffers, and more features than ever before to professionals in the CAD/CAM, DCC, medical imaging and digital video sectors.

The NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 by PNY is also now available and brings unified architecture benefits to the award-winning NVIDIA Quadro NVS by PNY series of 2D enterprise graphics boards, along with full Windows Vista support and a lengthy list of enterprise and financial ISV certifications.

"Combined with the recently launched ultra high-end NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 and FX 4600 by PNY professional graphics boards, PNY's new FX 1700, FX 570, and FX 370 give our DCC, CAD/CAM and visualization clients a full range of compelling and forward-compatible professional 3D graphics solutions to meet their most demanding performance expectations and budget requirements," said Ed Caracappa, vice president, Product Marketing for BOXX Technologies.

The refreshed product lineup includes:

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 by PNY Technologies -- redefines mid-range price/performance expectations with a massive 512MB GDDR2 frame buffer, HD video output and two dual-link DVI-I connectors, which enable professional users to maximize their display real estate by driving up to two ultra-high resolution 30" digital flat panels (PNY Part # VCQFX1700-PCIE-PB).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 by PNY Technologies -- delivers outstanding entry-level application capabilities with a 256MB GDDR2 frame buffer -- twice the amount of previous models -- and two dual-link DVI-I connectors capable of driving two ultra high resolution 30" displays (PNY Part # VCQFX570-PCIE-PB).

NVIDIA Quadro FX 370 by PNY Technologies -- redefines entry-level professional graphics at a breakthrough price with a 256MB GDDR2 frame buffer and support for one 30" digital display via a dual-link DVI-I port in addition to a single-link DVI-I port. (PNY Part # VCQFX370-PCIE-PB).

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290 by PNY Technologies -- delivers a new level of performance, quality and stability to professional 2D multi-display environments. With 256MB DDR2 frame buffer the NVS 290 is Microsoft® Vista™ ready and capable of displaying the full Windows Aero user interface. The DMS-59 connector, which splits into two VGA connectors or twin single-link DVI --I ports via a supplied adapter cable, offers outstanding image quality at resolutions up to 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz. (PNY Part # VCQ290NVS-PCIEX16-PB or VCQ290NVS-PCIEX1-PB).

"Now professionals in the CAD/CAM, DCC, visualization and financial sectors have top-to-bottom access to products built around NVIDIA's innovative unified architecture, Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA GPU computing, and other breakthrough features," said Eric Shiroke, general manager of the Quadro Business Unit at PNY. "Enhanced capabilities and outstanding performance, along with traditional Quadro display quality and industry-leading ISV certification, are now available to a wider audience than ever before."

All of the new NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions are now Shader Model 4.0 compliant, support DirectX 10, and come with the increased frame buffer capacity needed to make them fully Microsoft Vista ready. NVIDIA CUDA™ technology extends the capabilities of these products by allowing them to address mathematically intensive problems in addition to graphics.

All products in the NVIDIA Quadro by PNY Technologies series come with a three-year warranty (one year standard plus two additional years upon completion of a registration form on PNY Technologies' Web site). For additional information, visit PNY Technologies, Inc Web site at www.pny.com/quadro.

For more information of NVIDIA Quadro by PNY professional graphics boards contact Carl Flygare, Quadro product marketing manager, at cflygare@pny.com.

About PNY Technologies, Inc.

Established in 1985, PNY Technologies®, Inc. is a leading supplier and marketer of NVIDIA® Quadro® by PNY Technologies professional graphics boards and XLR8™ and Verto® brand consumer graphics cards. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash media, USB flash drives, portable hard drives and flash peripherals. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains facilities in North America (Santa Clara and Orange County, Calif., Miami, Fla. and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom,) and Asia (Taiwan and China). For more information, please visit http://www.pny.com.

The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. NVIDIA and NVIDIA QUADRO are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2007 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Source: Business Wire

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