Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Nvidia launches Fermi-based Quadro solutions

Santa Clara's own Nvidia Corp. has today updated its professional graphics offering with five new products, all of which are based on the Fermi architecture, the Quadro 6000, 5000 and 4000 cards, the Quadro 5000M mobile GPU and the Quadro Plex 7000 external 'visualization system'.

Backed by new tools like the Nvidia SceniX 6, Cg Tooklit 3, and OptiX 2, the five Quadro offerings feature DirectX 11 support and are claimed to deliver up to 5x faster 3D performance and 8x faster computational simulation across a broad range of design, animation and video applications.

Spec wise, the Quadro 6000 comes with a 384-bit memory interface, 6GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 2988 MHz, 448 CUDA Cores, a GPU clock of 574 MHz, and a TDP of 225W. This model includes two DisplayPort outputs and one DVI connector and costs $4,999. The Quadro 5000 is priced at $2,249 and has 352 Cores, a GPU frequency of 513 MHz, a 320-bit memory interface, and 2.5GB of GDDR5 memory @ 3000 MHz.

The single-slot Quadro 4000 packs 256 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit interface, 2GB of memory and costs $1,149, while the Quadro 5000M includes 320 Cores and the same 256-bit/2GB memory configuration.

Last but not least, the Quadro Plex 7000 has a price tag of $14,500 but it features 896 CUDA Cores and 12GB of memory.

The Quadro 4000, 5000 and 5000M are supposed to be shipping today, whereas the Quadro 6000 and Quadro Plex 7000 are expected to arrive this fall.

Quadro 6000

Quadro 5000

Quadro 4000

Quadro 5000M

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