Nvidia has a new flagship of its Quadro line announced. The Quadro K6000 is built around the GK110 gpu which all of the functionality that the chip provides is activated. The card for graphics workstations are designed, in the autumn of this year.
The Quadro K5000, which earlier this year was announced, like the new K6000 with a Kepler-gpu-equipped, but in this earlier model, the GK104 gpu which is also in for example the GeForce GTX 770. The Quadro K6000 is the new top model, and this card contains the GK110 gpu. This chip used Nvidia for the GTX 780 and the GTX Titan, which, respectively, 3GB, and 6GB memory. The memory size is in the Quadro will be increased to 12GB of gddr5.
In addition, now all 15 smx units activated, resulting in a total of 2880 cudacores. The computing power of the K6000 is according to Nvidia of 5.2 teraflops, compared to 2.1 teraflops of the K5000. The tdp of the card is 225W also a lot higher. The Quadro supports Nvidia’s Maximus technology to tasks to be transferred to Tesla cards. The card features a dvi-i, dvi-d and two displayport connectors. Through this latter connection allows up to four screens to be driven. The video card comes only in the autumn available and the price is still unknown.
Quadro K6000Quadro K5000Quadro K4000Quadro K2000(D)Quadro K600
Memory
12GB gddr5
4GB gddr5
3GB gddr5
2GB gddr5
1GB ddr3
Interface
384-bit
256-bit
192-bit
128-bit
128-bit
Memory bandwidth
288GBps
173GBps
134GBps
64GBps
29GBps
Cuda cores
2880
1536
768
384
192
Power consumption (max)
225W
122W
80W
51W
41W
Price
–
2249 dollar
1269 dollar
599 dollars
For $ 199
At the same time, with the K6000, there are new mobile Quadro cards announced. This will also in the autumn to make their way to laptops. The most powerful variant is the Quadro K5100M, but Nvidia will also have the Quadro K4100M, K3100M, K2100M, K1100M, K610M, and K510M release.
