Nvidia to Start Selling Kepler-Based Quadro Graphics Solutions in October

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week formally introduced its new-generation Quadro K5000 high-end graphics card for professional applications that will become available later this year. The board is based on professional flavour of the GK104 chip and supports a number of professional-grade capabilities. The Quadro K5000 will also be a key component of Nvidia's second-generation Maximus platform that combines Tesla compute cards with Quadro graphics solutions.

The Nvidia Quadro K5000 powered by GK104 GL features 1536 stream processors, 128 texture units, 32 raster operating units as well as 256-bit memory bus. The novelty fully supports modern high-end features like DirectX 11.1, OpenGL 4.3, OpenCL 1.2, stereoscopic-3D, 4 multi-monitor capability, PhysX, professional multi-GPU technology, PCI Express 3.0 and so on. In addition, the Quadro K5000 supports Quadro Sync, Quadro Mosaic, Quadro digital video pipeline, Nvidia GPUDirect and so on.

The exact clock-speed of the K5000 chip is unknown, but unlike graphics cards for gamers, the Quadro one is equipped with 4GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 5.4GHz. Given the fact that peak single-precision compute performance of the Quadro K5000 is 2.1TFLOPS as opposed to 3.1TFLOPS of the GeForce GTX 680, Nvidia did reduce clock-speed of the professional board by around 33%, or to about 600MHz.

Among the exclusive features the Quadro K5000 has to offer are bindless textures that give users the ability to reference over 1 million textures directly in memory to reduce CPU overhead; FXAA/TXAA film-style anti-aliasing technologies for outstanding image quality; •Display Port 1.2 support for resolutions up to 3840*2160@60Hz.

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