The Integrated Graphics to Video Solution for Broadcast, Video and Film Production Professionals

NVIDIA Quadro® SDI, option card is the ideal solution for digital broadcast professionals, who use various applications such as virtual-sets, sports, and weather news systems to composite live video footage onto virtual backgrounds and send the result to live video for TV broadcast. NVIDIA Quadro SDI solutions also allow film production, post-production, and finishing professionals to preview the results of 3D compositing, editing, and color grading in real time on high definition (HD) broadcast monitors. This graphics-to-video-out solution delivers uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-bit SDI from programmable graphics, enabling a direct connection to broadcast monitors, switchers, tape decks, or SDI projectors.

Available Solutions: Quadro FX 5600, 5500, 4600, and 4500

	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 SDI	NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500 SDI	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 SDI	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 SDI
Memory Size	1.5GB	1GB	768MB	512MB
Memory Interface	384-bit	256-bit	384-bit	256-bit
Graphics Memory Bandwidth	76.8 GB/sec.	33.6 GB/sec.	67.2 GB/sec.	33.6GB/sec.
Graphics Bus	PCI Express x16	PCI Express	PCI Express x16	PCI Express

The Quadro SDI solutions provide two channels—fill or key—of 8-, 10-, or 12-bit uncompressed SDI in 2K, HD, or SD formats, and analog and digital house synchronization. It supports both Microsoft® Windows® and Linux, and works on top of existing applications, or can be easily integrated within a broadcast or video editing application through the NVIDIA API.

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