NVIDIA introduces Quadro K5000 workstation graphics card - Kepler GK104 goes Pro

[caveman-jim]

NVIDIA have released new hardware to go with their new OpenGL 4.3 Beta compliant drivers, the Kepler GK104 based Quadro K5000 workstation graphics card:

You can count on superior interaction when designing with the most complex models, richer scene details and effects for content creation, and faster results when processing massive datasets for scientific exploration. The Quadro K5000 features a range of innovative features, including SMX for increased per-clock throughput of key graphics operations and bindless textures that enable the GPU to reference textures directly in memory. Plus, it supports up to four displays—ideal for driving large-scale visualization solutions.

The Quadro K5000’s next-generation streaming multiprocessor (SM) design, called SMX, offers several important architectural changes. These include substantial increases in per-clock throughput of key graphics operations that combine to deliver unprecedented performance and power efficiency. Plus the Quadro K5000 features large frame buffer capacity that lets you work with larger models and assemblies and improves interactive manipulation performance during the design process.

While not as fast as today's newly announced FirePro W9000 from AMD, the Quadro K5000 4GB sports higher performance and features in a very competitive 122W average TDP.

Read more at NVIDIA

[Blín D'ñero]

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While not as fast as today's newly announced FirePro W9000 from AMD, the Quadro K5000 4GB sports higher performance and features in a very competitive 122W average TDP.

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"Not as fast", yet "sports higher performance"???
Fastness = gpu speed but irrelevant? Or what?

[Hapatingjaky]

"Not as fast", yet "sports higher performance"???
Fastness = gpu speed but irrelevant? Or what?

Fastest in its segment of 122w.

[caveman-jim]

"Not as fast", yet "sports higher performance"???
Fastness = gpu speed but irrelevant? Or what?

The AMD FirePro has higher TFLOPS and some benchmark test results but application performance isn't as good in some cases.

[Hyrax]

Any benchmarks I seen always had even the slowest quadro beating out firepro.

From what I heard, Nvidia's drivers are just smarter and know how to render what needs to be rendered.

[Blín D'ñero]

"From what you heard"?

Well, from what i read (hothardware):

What we can say is that Nvidia's close ties to ISVs have blocked AMD from making up much ground in this highly profitable market.

Quoted in its original context:

Adobe's Mercury Playback Engine, used in Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, is Nvidia-only -- unless you happen to own a Macbook Pro with a Radeon card. A handful of consumer-level GeForce cards are also supported. Adobe's Creative Suite technical recommendations states that "NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 5000, or 6000 or other Adobe-certified GPU card with at least 1GB of VRAM recommended" (emphasis added). Photoshop actually supports both families, but Nvidia Quadro cards are nearly always listed first. In the one case that they aren't, you'll note that Adobe tested a full 21 Nvidia cards, compared to just 13 AMD solutions.

Is it fair? Certainly Nvidia would argue that it is. Nvidia has undoubtedly invested a great deal of time and money into professional feature development and support. OpenGL drivers and CUDA toolkits don't write themselves. Nvidia launched the GPGPU movement more-or-less on its own, and has done most of the heavy lifting to popularize the idea. AMD may back OpenCL, but it hasn't put the same level of investment behind the standard.

We honestly don't have the visibility we'd need to make a call on whether the preferential treatment Nvidia products often receive is a fair measure of relative investment between the two companies. What we can say is that Nvidia's close ties to ISVs have blocked AMD from making up much ground in this highly profitable market. These new cards are supposed to offer performance that would make ISV's rethink that stance.

Source (hothardware.com)

[Hyrax]

"From what you heard"?

Well, from what i read (hothardware):


Quoted in its original context:

Source (hothardware.com)

yes, I hear text.

Seriously, I did see benchmarks.