With the Quadro K5000 this is done natively using the 2 x DisplayPorts and 2 x DVI ports. The good news is that this has all changed with Kepler and all but the entry-level Quadro K600 now support up to four displays from a single GPU. This put Nvidia at a disadvantage to AMD who pioneered three or more display CAD workflows from a single AMD FirePro card with its AMD Eyefinity technology. To support more than this two cards were needed, perhaps to run multiple applications on a three screen extended desktop or digital mockup on a 2 x 2 powerwall. Nvidia’s Fermi-based Quadros were limited to two displays per GPU. Nvidia Quadro 600 (1GB DDR3) for entry-level CAD Card features
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But it should not be forgotten that Nvidia Maximus can offer huge workflow benefits where rendering or simulation is carried out in the background on the Tesla board, freeing up the rest of the workstation for full speed interactive design. However, at £2,490 for a single Tesla K20, GPU compute with Maximus doesn’t come cheap, though Nvidia points out that in some CAE workflows it can be partnered with a low-end Quadro K600.įor those on a budget Kepler’s support for single precision floating point operations means the cards can still be used for GPU-based ray trace rendering in applications like 3ds Max Design and Catia Live Rendering. Nvidia’s Tesla K20 works alongside any of the new Quadros to complete Nvidia’s branded Maximus solution. Whereas Fermi-based Quadros could be used to accelrate CUDA or OpenCL optimised simulation applications, with Kepler this requires a dedicated Tesla GPU compute board.
One of the reasons the Quadro K4000 comes out so well in the power stakes is the fact that Nvidia has out stripped double precision floating point operations from all Kepler-based Quadros, concentrating instead on single precision.įor most CAD users this won’t make the slightest bit of difference – only those interested in harnessing the power of the GPU in simulation applications like Ansys and Simulia will need to take notice. At a time when the price of electricity continues to rise ongoing running costs are becoming an increasingly important consideration in workstation hardware. But at 80W the Quadro K4000 has significantly lower power requirements than the Quadro 4000 (142W). Watt for watt there’s not a huge difference at the low-end the Quadro K600 and K2000 peaking at 41W and 51W compared to the 40W and 60W of the Fermi-based Quadro 6 they replace. Power efficiency is also high on the agenda with Nvidia claiming the new design is three times more energy efficient than its predecessor, leading to more performance at the exact same or lower power requirements.
The cards target entry-level, mid-range and high-end CAD users respectively and join the Quadro K5000 ($2,249 / £1,559) which in the world of product development is really reserved for digital mockup, design visualisation or ultra high-end CAD.Īt a glance: Nvidia’s new Kepler-based Quadro family
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Today Nvidia has released three new professional GPUs Three months into 2013 we are starting to see the results. It’s probably overkill for most 3D CAD workflows.įor users of CAD applications including SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, PTC Creo, Siemens NX and Dassault Systèmes Catia, the real interest was in how Nvidia would scale down this new generation GPU technology. With 4GB GDDR5 memory and 1,536 CUDA cores, the Quadro K5000 sits very much at the high end of Nvidia’s new Quadro family. When the Nvidia Quadro K5000 (4GB GDDR5) shipped at the tail end of 2012 it gave CAD users a taste of what to expect from ‘Kepler’, Nvidia’s brand new GPU architecture, the successor to ‘Fermi’. Nvidia’s new Quadro K600: designed for entry-level 3D CAD: tested here inside Scan’s new entry-level 3XS GW-MT15 workstation
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