Nvidia releases five new Quadro video cards
Nvidia has renewed its Quadro series with five new video cards. The video cards intended for professional workstations are equipped with a Kepler or a Maxwell GPU and should offer better performance than their predecessors.
The five models in the Quadro series are identified by the number ‘2’ in the product name and will succeed the previous generation of Quadro graphics cards in September. Only the Quadro K6000, which Nvidia released in July 2013, is not yet replaced, Anandtech reports.
The new sub-topper in the series is the Quadro K5200, which, like the K6000, has a GK110 GPU on board. Not all smx units are enabled, leaving 2304 cores. It is striking that the memory bus with 256 bits is narrower than with previously released video cards with GK110 GPU, which had a 384 bit bus.
| CUDA cores | 2304 | 1344 | 640 | 384 | 192 |
| Architecture | Kepler | Kepler | Maxwell | Maxwell | Kepler |
| gpu frequency | 650MHz | 780MHz | 1GHz | 1GHz | 780MHz |
| Memory size | 8GB | 4GB | 4GB | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Speed | 6GHz gddr5 | 5.4GHz gddr5 | 5GHz gddr5 | 1.8GHz ddr3 | 1.8GHz ddr3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 192GB/s | 173GB/s | 80GB/s | 29GB/s | 29GB/s |
| Memory bus | 256 bit | 256 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| tdp | 150W | 105W | 68W | 45W | 41W |
New to the Quadro series is the use of Maxwell GPUs in the K2200 and K620. Until now we only encountered Maxwell in the GeForce GTX 750 and GTX 750Ti, but have now also found their way to the professional cards. All Quadro cards can control four screens, although the low profile K620 and K420 must use an mst hub for this.
Nvidia’s announcement of new Quadro cards comes shortly after AMD’s announcement of a range of refreshed FirePro graphics cards. Exact prices of the new Quadros are not yet known, but Nvidia will charge comparable prices to the previous generation of video cards.