NVIDIA Introduces New Fermi-Class Quadro Card
Today at SIGGRAPH 2010, NVIDIA will launch what they are calling a new “computational visualization workstation” for designers, engineers, researchers and animators by introducing its new Quadro graphics processing units based on NVIDIA Fermi architecture. NVIDIA will also introduce their NVIDIA 3D Vision Pro solution to deliver performance that is up to five times faster for 3D applications and up to eight times faster for computational simulation. This cutting edge technology does not come cheap however, the Quadro 7000 will retail for $14,500, while the Quadro 6000, 5000, and 4000 will go for $4,999, $2,249, and $1,199 respectively.
The new Quadro GPUs are built on industry standards, including OpenGL 4.1, DirectX 11, DirectCompute and OpenCL. In addition, Quadro leverages technologies that are unique to NVIDIA such as the companys portfolio of Application Acceleration Engines (AXE) and NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing architecture. The result is that software developers are able to create and deliver the next-generation of professional applications that incorporate compute-intensive tasks. Among these tasks are ray tracing, physics simulation, computational fluid dynamics and real-time video effects processing.
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