The Quadro FX 5600 is considered an OpenGL “monster”. Equipped with 1536MB GDDR3 RAM, the Quadro FX 5600 offers enough power for higher resolutions and bigger textures. The car dis based on the G80 graphic chip, present also in many GeForce 8800 gaming card series. The Quadro FX 5600 is sold for an average price of €2500, and usually gets the first position in many benchmark categories.

The “Maxtreme 11″ driver from nVidia is very interesting. It’s a plugin, developed especially for 3D Studio Max, that offers a significant performance increase with that particular software. In comparison with the previous versions, Maxtreme 11 supports the OpenGL and DirectX API. The 3DSM shader operations also benefit from this plugin.

The 90nm chip and the bigger amount of memory require more energy, which is supplied by two 6-pin Molex connectors.

The GPU-Z’s screenshot shows the main technical information about the FX 5600.