NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac - Do More, Faster The world's best under $1,000 graphics card for the Adobe CS5 Mercury Playback Engine! 

If you're an artist, designer, or video professional with an Apple Mac Pro, you can accelerate your entire workflow with the NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000 for Mac graphics solution. Delivering excellent graphics performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows you to do more, faster.

In addition to the latest Mac OS X-based applications, Boot Camp delivers full Quadro benefits and acceleration when running professional Windows applications.

Next-Generation NVIDIA CUDA™ Architecture
Breakthrough NVIDIA Fermi architecture incorporates CUDA parallel computing capabilities and advanced visualization to deliver performance that greatly accelerates professional workflows.

NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine™
Dramatically improves geometry performance across a broad range of CAD, DCC and medical applications, enabling you to work interactively with models and scenes that are an order of magnitude more complex than ever before.

Large Framebuffers with Ultra-Fast Bandwidth
Large GPU memory with fast bandwidth for accelerating the display of complex models and scenes, as well as performing complex computation on large datasets.

NVIDIA Parallel DataCache™
Supports a true cache hierarchy combined with on-chip shared memory. L1 and L2 caches drive exceptional throughput, accelerating features such as real-time ray tracing, physics and texture filtering.

NVIDIA GigaThread™ Engine
Provides up to 10x faster context switching compared to previous generation architectures, concurrent kernel execution, and improved thread block scheduling.

Fast 3D Texture Transfer
Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric datasets.

Hardware 3D Window Clipping
Hardware accelerated clip regions (data transfer mechanism between a window and the frame buffer) improve overall graphics performance by increasing transfer speed between color buffer and frame buffer.

IMAGE QUALITY

Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 64X FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or “jaggies,” resulting in unparalled image quality and highly realistic scenes.

GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5.0
Quadro Tessellation Engines automatically generates finely detailed geometry, for cinematic quality environments and scenes, without sacrificing performance.

16K Texture and Render Processing
The ability to texture from and render to 16K x 16K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.

NVIDIA High Precision High Dynamic Range (HDR) Technology
Sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, texturing, and blending. Enables unprecedented rendered image quality for visual effects processing.

DISPLAY FEATURES

High-Quality Display Connectors
Drives ultra-high-resolution panels, producing phenomenal photorealistic image quality from a range of display connectors. Support two active connectors including, dual-link DVI with up to 3840 x 2400 @ 24Hz on each panel, DisplayPort with up to up to 2560 x 1600, or HDMI for integrated audio and video thru the GPU.

30-Bit Color Fidelity
30-bit color fidelity (10-bits per color) enables billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.

OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support
OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo offers professional applications the capability of smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience.

3D Stereo Synchronization*
Enables robust control of stereo effect through a dedicated 3-pin mini-din connection between the graphics card and 3D stereo hardware. Support via optional 3-pin mini din connector.

SOFTWARE SUPPORT

Programming the CUDA Parallel Computing Architecture
General purpose GPU computing using standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, and emerging APIs such as OpenCL and Direct Compute. This broad adoption of CUDA is accelerating techniques like ray tracing, video and image processing, and computation fluid dynamics.

Cg Programming
Programmable GPU leverages Cg high-level, open-standard shading language to enable the creation and integration of real-time photorealistic effects into 3D models, scenes and designs.

Accelerated performance for Microsoft Windows professional applications
Experience native Quadro® GPU accelerated 3D graphics performance and features when using Apple Boot Camp

INDUSTRY STANDARD

PCI Express 2.0 Compliant
Doubles the data transfer rate up to 5 GT/sec per lane for an aggregate bandwidth of 16 GB/sec bi-directional (8 GB/sec in each direction).

Ultra-Quiet Design
Acoustics lower than 28db for an ultra-quiet desktop environment.

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When Adobe worked with NVIDIA to create the CS5 Mercury Playback Engine, they made it more important than ever to choose the best graphics board for your NLE workstation.  In the past, when manufacturers required special graphics cards, they were often extremely expensive. Now, the NVIDIA Quadro 4000  by PNY is an incredibly powerful board for under $1,000 and it's available for either PC or Mac! While the Quadro4000 Mac costs a little more than it's PC brother, it is substantially less expensive than any other Quadro board ever offered for Mac.

The Quadro 4000 is based on NVIDIA's Fermi technology, which is the next generation of their CUDA technology. This is an understatement, it's more like CUDA on steroids. The Fermi/CUDA power allows software vendors to tap directly into the GPUs many processing cores. The Quadro 4000 has a whopping 256 CUDA Parallel Processing Cores to go along with it's 2GB of GDDR5 memory.  Think about that, it's like having a dedicated graphics workstation on a card. The folks at Adobe jumped on this and other software manufacturers in the content creation and encoding business are following along. When you put a Quadro 4000 in your PC or Mac workstation, you're making sure that you'll have the GPU CUDA performance to take full advantage of these new performance enhancements as they become available in more and more applications.

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For years we have been recommending NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics boards to our professional customers who demand the highest level of performance, reliability and stability. Quadro cards cost a bit more than your average gaming graphics card, but for professional content creators, the extra cost is often worth it. In a nut shell, many tech support issues we run into are graphics card related. While you may be able to save some bucks going with a gaming card, we feel confident that if you invest in a Quadro4000, you'll be happy you did!

The world's best under $1,000 graphics card for the Adobe CS5 Mercury Playback Engine!

With the introduction of the Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 becomes the world's first CUDA optimized NLE solution.  The Quadro 4000 taps into the new Fermi technology, which is basically CUDA on steroids. For under $900 the Quadro4000 delivers performance that blows away the almost twice as expensive QuadroFX4800 cards. The Quadro 4000 for MAC is the must have upgrade for Mac based Adobe CS5 users. Now, for under $1,000, you can edit multiple layers of native DSLR or AVCHD  footage, plus incredible graphics performance with Photoshop, After Effects and all the other software in the Adobe CS5 Production Premium.

Design, iterate, and deliver in less time
The Quadro 4000 is the first professional graphics solution in its class to integrate high-performance computing with advanced visualization, transforming modern workflows. Delivering up to 5x faster performance, the Quadro 4000 professional graphics solution drives a broad range of design, animation and video applications. With Scalable Geometry Engine™ technology, Quadro 4000 can process up to 890 million triangles per second, enabling professionals to design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time

Unleash the creativity in your editing suite
Blockbuster films are not made overnight, but with Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 and NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics solutions, editing time can be drastically reduced. At the heart of Premiere Pro CS5 is the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine – built using the NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel processing architecture – so Quadro GPUs deliver real-time previewing and editing of native, high-resolution footage, including multiple layers of RED 4K video.

Whether you're working on independent films or corporate videos, you are no doubt under tight deadlines, and stringent budget constraints. However, Quadro professional graphics solutions easily transform a workstation into a high-end post production system, at a fraction of the cost. With boosted performance and amazingly fluid, real-time video editing, you can feel confident to work your magic in front of a client, rather than having to endure the painful wait for your effects to render. Leaving one real question - what do you do with all that extra time?

• Refine and apply multiple color corrections and  effects, in HD and higher-resolution sequences, with smooth scrubbing and playback – all in real-time!
• Experience rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range with 30-bit color fidelity.
• Work in real-time on complex timelines and large projects with thousands of clips – whether your source is SD, HD, 2K, 4K or beyond.
•  Easily integrate project files from After Effects and Photoshop into Premiere Pro and edit in real-time.
• Designed by NVIDIA, built by NVIDIA, and directly supported by NVIDIA with an extended  three year warranty.

Quadro 4000 for Mac:
Now Supported In Adobe Premiere Pro 5.0.3

If your customers are artists, designers, or video professionals with a Mac Pro, you can accelerate their entire workflow with the NVIDIA® Quadro® 4000 for Mac graphics solution. Delivering excellent graphics performance across a broad range of design, animation and video applications, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows them to do more, faster. Designed, tested, and built by NVIDIA, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows them to design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time.

Now, with the 5.0.3 update to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, Mac Pro users with a Quadro 4000 for Mac can take advantage of the revolutionary Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, built using the NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel processing architecture, to get real-time previewing and editing of native, high-resolution footage, including multiple layers of RED 4K video