Nvidia equips Quadro card for workstations with GP100 GPU and 16GB hbm2
Nvidia announces the Quadro GP100. The video card has the full GP100 GPU and 16GB HBM2 memory, just like the Tesla P100 accelerator. Unlike the PCIe variant for servers, the new Quadro card can also be used for graphics applications.
The new Quadro GP100 is designed as a regular video card, with its own fan and four displayport 1.4 outputs to connect monitors. There is also a DVI-D port. These connections make the card suitable for use in workstations and graphics. The card is designed as a dual slot model and consumes a maximum of 235 watts, according to Nvidia. Together with the Quadro GP100 card, Nvidia introduces an NVLink connector, with which two of the PCIe cards can be linked.
The video card contains the full GP100 GPU, which Nvidia announced last year in April. Initially, the GPU was only available in the form of the Tesla P100 accelerator, which is used in Nvidia’s own DGX-1 supercomputer and later became available as a PCIe card for servers. It was the first chip based on the new Pascal architecture, followed by smaller variants for the GeForce GTX 10 video cards, among others. Nvidia does not disclose what clock speed the GP100 GPU runs in the Quadro card.
Last year, Nvidia already released the Quadro P6000 card, which is based on the Pascal architecture. However, it used the GP102 GPU, just like the Titan X video card. The P6000 also uses gddr5x memory, instead of hbm2.
When it comes to fp32 calculations, the P6000 with 12tflops is the better card, the GP100 GPU gets 10.3tflops. However, the P6000 is not optimized for double-precision fp64 calculations and can only perform them at 1/32nd the speed. With the GP100 GPU, that’s 1/2th, for a total of 5.2tflops.
Along with the Quadro GP100, Nvidia announces a lineup of new models based on Pascal GPUs, which will be positioned below the existing P6000. These are the P4000, P2000 and P1000, which are respectively based on the GP104, GP106 and GP107 GPU and are equipped with gddr5 memory. Finally, there are the Quadro P600 and P400, which, like the P1000, have a GP107 GPU, but are equipped with less memory. Nvidia has not disclosed prices of the new Quadro cards.