PNY VCQFX3800ELAC-PB 1GB GDDR2 graphics card

VCQFX3800ELAC-PB, NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 with Elemental Accelerator ELEMENTAL ACCELERATOR 2.0 FOR WINDOWS

Up to 11X Faster H.264 Video Encoding
Elemental Accelerator is a high-speed, high-quality video processing solution designed to add power and performance to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 workflow with select NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics boards. Elemental Accelerator harnesses the power of the Quadro GPU and NVIDIA CUDA technology to perform high-speed video encoding and deliver dramatic time savings over conventional CPU-only encoding solutions.

Elemental Accelerator performs GPU-accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to H.264/AVC baseline, main, or high profile output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu-ray disc. By executing demanding processing tasks on the Quadro GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video transcoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment. Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows can deliver as much as a 11x performance improvement compared to the standard CPU encoder.

- Import Formats
Import the most common video formats for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro. Supported formats include: AVCHD, MOV, MPG, HDV, MTS, M2TS, and TS.

- Decode Formats
Support for GPU-based MPEG2 and H.264/AVC video decode speeds end-to-end video processing.

- Effects Rendering and Video Conversion
Accelerate common video effects and transitions as well as linear scaling and frame rate conversion.

- Output Video
Render and encode H.264/AVC video to high and main profiles for Adobe Flash and Blu-ray disc and to baseline profile for Adobe Flash and portable media players.

- Easy Installation
Elemental Accelerator installs quickly and easily as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

- Accelerated Video Workflows: MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, HDV, XDCAM

- Video Rendering/Encoding: H.264/AVC

- Video Effects and Transition
Motion
Position
Scale (uniform and independent)
Cropping
Opacity
Fast Color Corrector
Hue balance and angle
Balance magnitude, gain and angle
Saturation
Contrast (input/output level settings)
Brightness (input/output level settings)
Cross Dissolve
Dip to Black
Dip to White

- Video Conversion
Linear up and down scaling
Aspect ratio conversion
Frame rate conversion
Audio Encoding
AAC
A/52 (AC3)
PCM

- Minimum System Requirements for Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows
Desktop platforms: NVIDIA Quadro CX, Quadro FX 5800, FX 4800, FX 3800 or FX 1800
NVIDIA driver 182.65 or greater
Premiere Pro CS4 v4.0.1.52 or greater
Adobe Media Encoder version 4.0.1.78 or greater
Windows XP 32, Vista 32 or Vista 64
Intel or AMD dual-core CPU running at least 1.6 GHz
Access to the Internet for product activation

STANDARD ENCODER SETTING
In the standard media encoder these settings can be found in the pre-sets using
Format: H.264 Blu-ray
Preset: HDTV 720p@23.976 High Quality

ELEMENTAL ACCELERATOR
For the Elemental Accelerator Plug-in these settings are used as presets
Format: Elemental H.264
Preset: HDTV 720p 23.976

These settings are identical. Both use VBR 1 pass, target 25,000 Kbps, High Profile, and level 4.1.
i. Compatible with NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800, 4800, 3800 and 1800

QUADRO FX 3800 KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

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.

CUDA Architecture
NVIDIA CUDA is a revolutionary parallel computing architecture for Quadro GPUs enabling breakthrough performance in areas such as such as interactive ray tracing, finite element analysis, and computational fluid dynamics.


NVIDIA Unified GPU Architecture
Industry’s first unified architecture designed to dynamically allocate compute, geometry, shading and pixel processing power to deliver optimized GPU performance.

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).

Stereo Mini-DIN connector (Optional)
Enables robust control of stereo effect through a dedicated connection between the graphics card and 3D stereo hardware.

SLI Multi OS
NVIDIA SLI Multi OS allows a user to run multiple Windows or Linux workstation environments from a single system, with each Operating System directly assigned to a Quadro graphics solution.

Dual DisplayPort Digital Display Connectors
Dual DisplayPort connectors support ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 2560 x 1600) -- which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Single Dual-Link Digital Display Connector
Dual-link TMDS transmitter supports ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2400 @24Hz) --which result in amazing image quality producing detailed photorealistic images.

Ultra quiet design
Engineered to deliver high performance with low acoustics for a quiet desktop environment.

Uncompressed 8-,10-, or 12-Bit SDI Output (Optional)
Enables on-air broadcast, video production and post production professionals to composite and output live video and graphics to true, uncompressed 12-bit SDI in 2K, SD, or HD resolutions and allows direct connection to a broadcast monitor, switcher, tape deck, or SDI projector.
Need optional SDI Output card.

Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.


Package Contains
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 by PNY graphics board
- One DP to DVI-D adapter
- One DVI-I to VGA adapter
- Auxiliary power connector cable
- Drivers for Windows XP and Vista (Linux available on web)
- Detailed Installation Guide
- QuickStart Installation Guide
- Quadro Application Utilities on CD-ROM (MAXtreme, POWERdraft)
- Elemental Accelerator 2.0 for Windows (CD + installation guide + Activation Key)

Supported Platforms
- Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit and 32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit)
- Linux – full OpenGL implementation with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
Solaris
- AMD64, Intel EM64T
- PCI Express 2.0 support

Minimum System Requirements
- PC compatible with Intel Pentium 4/Xeon or AMD Opteron class processor or higher
- Open PCI Express x16 lane slot
- Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Linux, or Solaris
- 1GB system memory
- 100MB of available disk space for full installation
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
- VGA, DVI-I or DisplayPort compatible display
- 450W power supply (higher capacity may be required for SLI)