Design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time with the Quadro mid-range and entry level professional graphics solutions. Delivering the industry’s best-in-class performance across leading CAD and DCC applications, Quadro mid-range and entry level solutions provide an affordable, high performance experience that can transform engineering and design workflows. Photo: NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA, USA - October 04, 2010

New NVIDIA Quadro Graphics Solutions Bring the Power of the Fermi Architecture to All Engineers, Designers and Animators

NVIDIA announced today the expansion of its award-winning line of NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions based on the NVIDIA Fermi™ architecture.

The mid-range Quadro 2000 with 192 NVIDIA CUDA™ processing cores and the entry-level Quadro 600 with 96 CUDA processor cores now bring the computational and visualization benefits of the breakthrough Fermi architecture to all segments of the market.

Delivering the industry’s best-in-class performance across leading CAD and DCC applications, the Quadro 2000 mid-range professional graphics solution features NVIDIA® Scalable Geometry Engine™ technology and 1 GB of memory for fast processing of complex models and scenes. Photo: NVIDIA

The Quadro 2000 delivers 1.5 times the geometry performance of the previous Quadro graphics processing unit (GPU) mid-range solution (Based on millions of triangles drawn per second compared with the Quadro FX 1800) and utilizes the new NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine technology to deliver dramatically higher performance across leading CAD and DCC applications such as SolidWorks and Autodesk 3ds Max.

Quadro 2000 - 3 qtr. flat shot Photo: NVIDIA

"We believe the technology that NVIDIA has built into their new Quadro professional graphics, namely the new NVIDIA Fermi architecture, will provide an exceptional solution for SolidWorks users worldwide," said Nick Iwaskow, manager, Alliances, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.
"With our expected certification of the Quadro 2000, SolidWorks anticipates the newest Quadro solutions will empower designers and engineers with the finely detailed geometry, real-time simulation and analysis, and high visual fidelity they demand."

Quadro 2000 - top of card from above Photo: NVIDIA

The new entry-level Quadro 600 is a flexible half height solution that features the industry's best performance per watt (Based on 40W maximum power consumption of Quadro 600 vs. 69W maximum power consumption of AMD FirePro V4800) for applications such as Autodesk AutoCAD 2011, and empowers professional designers to interact with models that are twice the size and complexity compared to previous entry-level solutions.

Quadro 2000 - top of card on side Photo: NVIDIA

"At last month's GPU Technology Conference, the world learned all about the power of our Fermi architecture and how NVIDIA Quadro GPUs are being used to solve some of the world's most complex problems," said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions Group, NVIDIA.
"With these new Quadro solutions, we're making this computational horsepower available for all users of professional CAD and content creation software applications."

The low-profile and power-efficient NVIDIA® Quadro® 600 professional graphics solution delivers exceptional value to the entry level professional graphics market. Quadro 600 is available in small form factor and full height workstations with ultra-efficient 40W maximum power consumption, delivering the best performance per watt in its class. Photo: NVIDIA

Both the Quadro 2000 and Quadro 600 feature 1GB of graphics memory and are compatible with the new NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Pro active shutter-glasses solution, providing powerful visualization and analysis in an immersive, high-quality stereoscopic 3D experience.

Designed, Built and Engineered by NVIDIA to the Highest Standards of Quality

Quadro professional graphics cards are designed and built by NVIDIA to provide industry-leading performance, reliability, compatibility and stability when running professional applications.

Software companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes and SolidWorks consistently certify Quadro professional graphics solutions for their users whose livelihoods depend on them.

Quadro 600 - 3 qtr. flat shot Photo: NVIDIA

The NVIDIA Quadro 2000 and Quadro 600 are built on industry standards, including OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0, DirectCompute and OpenCL.

They also leverage the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture that enables dramatic increases in computing performance.

Featuring 30-bit color fidelity (10-bits per color), these Quadro solutions enable the display of billions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.

Quadro 600 - top of card from above Photo: NVIDIA

Both the Quadro 2000 and Quadro 600 are PCI Express 2.0 compliant, and feature an ultra-quiet design, with tailored acoustics for an ultra-quiet desktop environment.

The newest line of Quadro GPUs leverages the CUDA parallel processing architecture and NVIDIA Application Acceleration Engines to enable the world's fastest performance across a broad range of applications.

Additionally, these new solutions feature NVIDIA Mosaic Technology (Mosaic Technology will be available with upcoming NVIDIA Quadro driver releases in late Q4 2010), which will enable any application to utilize one or more Quadro professional graphics solutions to scale across up to eight high-resolution displays.

Whether the application is CATIA, 3ds Max or PowerPoint or Google Earth, users just simply hit the Maximize button and the application will seamlessly span across all connected displays.

Quadro 600 - top of card on side Photo: NVIDIA

"As the world's leading workstation brand, Dell Precision workstations are designed from the ground up specifically for professional users who demand the ultimate in performance of their systems, graphics and ISV application integration," said Greg Weir, senior manager, Dell Precision Workstations Product and ISV Marketing.
"NVIDIA Quadro GPUs, combined with our Dell Precision workstations, deliver on those expectations with exceptional value, superior performance, and broad application support for all segments of the market."


Availability and Pricing


The Quadro 2000 ($599 MSRP, USD) and Quadro 600 ($199 MSRP, USD) are available from leading global workstation manufacturers, including Dell, HP and Lenovo, as well as authorized distribution partners including: PNY Technologies in North America and Europe, ELSA in Japan, and Leadtek in Asia Pacific.

To learn more, visit:

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About NVIDIA


NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999.

Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations.

NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible.

The company holds more than 1,100 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs and insights which are fundamental to modern computing.

For more information, see

www.nvidia.com  


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NVIDIA Corporation
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NVIDIA® QUADRO® 2000 Technical Specifications

Photo: NVIDIA

Supported Platforms


• Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Linux - Full OpenGL implementation, complete with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Solaris


3D Graphics Architecture


• Scalable geometry architecture

• Hardware tessellation engine

• NVIDIA® GigaThread™ engine

• Shader Model 5.0

• OpenGL 4.0

• DirectX 11

• Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft HLSL

• Up to 16K x16K texture and render processing

• Transparent multisampling and super sampling

• 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering

• 128-bit floating point performance

• 32-bit per-component floating point texture filtering and blending

• 64x full scene antialiasing (FSAA)
• Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)

• Blu-ray dual-stream hardware acceleration (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)


NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Processing Architecture


• API support includes:
CUDA C, CUDA C++, DirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL, Java, Python, or Fortran

• NVIDIA® Parallel DataCache™ hierarchy (configurable L1 and unified L2 caches)

• 64 KB of RAM (configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1 cache)

• Full IEEE 754-2008 - 32-bit or 64-bit double precision

• Dual Warp Scheduler (schedules and dispatches simultaneously instructions from two independent warps)

• Advanced Display Features

• 30-bit color (10-bit per each red, green, blue channel)

• Support for any combination of two connected displays

• Dual DisplayPort (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz or 1920 x 1200 @ 120Hz)

• Dual-link DVI-I output (up to 2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz or 1920 x 1200 @ 120Hz)

• Internal 400 MHz DAC DVI-I output (analog display up to 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz)

• DisplayPort to VGA, DisplayPort to DVI (single-link and dual-link) and DisplayPort to HDMI cables (resolution support based on dongle specifications)

• DisplayPort 1.1a, HDMI 1.3a, and HDCP support

• 10-bit internal display processing (hardware support for 10-bit scanout for both windowed desktop and full screen, only available on Windows and Linux with Aero disabled)

• NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ technology, 3D DLP, Interleaved, and other 3D stereo format support

• Full OpenGL quad buffered stereo support

• Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling

• NVIDIA® nView® multi-display technology


Display Port and HDMI Digital Audio


• Support for the following audio modes:
Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, Multichannel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), andMPEG-2/MPEG-4 AAC

• Data rates of 44.1 KHz, 48 KHz, 88.2 KHz, 96 KHz, 176 KHz, and 192 KHz

• Word sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit


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