Nvidia introduces Quadro P6000 with 24GB gddr5x

Nvidia has announced two new video cards for the business market. The Quadro P6000 and the P5000 are equipped with a Pascal GPU and provided by Nvidia with 24GB and 16GB gddr5x respectively.

The Pascal GPU in the implementation of the Quadro P6000 is the GP102 GPU with the full 3840 Cudacores activated, just like the Tesla P100 accelerator that should appear later this year. Nvidia combines the card with 24GB gddr5x. Gddr5x is video memory with a higher bandwidth than gddr5: from 10 to 14Gbit/s, double that of regular gddr5 memory. The P6000 has four displayport 1.4 interfaces and dual-link DVI, which, according to Nvidia, should be able to control four 5k screens at 60Hz.

The Quadro P5000 has to do with a GP104 GPU with 2560 cudacores. The GPU can have 16GB of vram, but again it concerns the fast gddr5x. This card also has four display ports and dual link DVI. The housing of the cards is almost identical to that of the predecessors, the M6000 and M5000, and to that of the pci-e versions of the Tesla P100. The P6000 quickly follows the M6000: that card was unveiled in March.

Nvidia gives the Quadro cards support for DirectX 12, Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL and Nvidia’s own Cuda. In addition, there is a video engine with support for decoding hevc and h264 video at 10bit and 12bit. The Quadros could render 8-bit 4k images at 120Hz and 240Hz and 8k video at 30Hz. Rendering two 4k streams at the same time at 60Hz would also be a possibility, writes Heise, which is the only medium writing about the cards at the time of writing. The introduction of the Quadro cards with Pascal GPU was already expected at the Siggraph trade fair for graphic professionals. Nvidia may release more information in the course of Monday.

The Quadro P6000 and P5000 will be released in October this year. The Quadros are aimed at the business market and Nvidia provides driver optimizations for the professional line, including Autocad.