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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Quadro 2000 - 3 qtr. flat shot
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"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."
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Quadro 2000 - top of card from above
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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.
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Quadro 2000 - top of card on side
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"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."
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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
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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.
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Quadro 600 - 3 qtr. flat shot
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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.
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Quadro 600 - top of card from above
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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.
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Quadro 600 - top of card on side
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"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:
www.nvidia.com/quadro
Follow NVIDIA Quadro on YouTube,
and Twitter: @NVIDIAQuadro
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
For more information, contact:
Mark Priscaro
NVIDIA Corporation
(408) 486-2438
mpriscaro@nvidia.com
http://pressroom.nvidia.com
NVIDIA® QUADRO® 2000 Technical Specifications
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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
http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/prss.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F09
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