NVIDIA has announced that it will be launching new Quadro GPUs including the P100, P4000, P2000, P1000, P600, and P400.
The company will roll out new cards in its workstation-oriented Quadro line at SolidWorks World earlier this week. The boards are based on Pascal which offers up to twice the performance of earlier cards. There are two boards aimed at mainstream users of tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator, the Quadro P400 and P600.
For heavy users of cards, the P1000 and P2000 are available. They are good with video or animation software like 3ds Max, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Maya or Nuke.The P1000 uses a cut-down GP107 GPU clocked at around 1.4GHz. On the other hand, the P4000 works well with virtual reality headset. It has received VR Ready certification and can power the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.
The P4000 card is based on a cut-down GP104 GPU, which was used in the Quadro P5000. The P4000 delivers 2x the performance of the M4000. Meanwhile, the P2000 is being built off of a GP106 GPU. It is 66 percent faster compared to its predecessor with the same 75W TDP.
The Quadro P600 is basically a lower-performance version of the P1000. It retains the 4 mini-DisplayPort connectors. The Quadro P400 will replace the K420, which was the last Kepler-based part in the Quadro lineup. It has double the performance capability due to vast improvements in its architecture and clockspeeds.
Meanwhile, the P100 has a smaller RAM compared to other cards and has 16GB of second-generation High Bandwidth Memory. It will first appear in NVIDIA's NVLink interconnect in a traditional PC-compatible form factor.
“Our new Quadro lineup provides the graphics and compute performance required to address these challenges. And, by unifying compute and design, the Quadro GP100 transforms the average desktop workstation with the power of a supercomputer,” said Bob Pette, vice president of Professional Visualization at NVIDIA.
NVIDA's latest Quadro cards will become available in March. It will be distributed through partners including PNY in North America and Europe, ELSA/Ryoyo in Japan, and Leadtek in Asia Pacific.