Today, NVIDIA® will announce the release of two new cards to the design and video industry’s Quadro® line of video processors. The Quadro 2000 and Quadro 600. Built on NVIDIA Fermi architecture, these two addition complete the line-up with affordable CAD graphics solutions, with support for Direct X 11, Open GL 4.1, and Open CL.
Quadro 600
This entry level card is reported to be 44% better performance than Quadro FX 380, processing some 210 million Triangles per second. Some specification are:
- 96 CUDA parallel processing cores
- 1 Gig DDR3 frame buffer memory
- 128 bit memory interface
- 25.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
- DVI-I and DP display connections
- 40W max power consumption
- PCI Express 2.0×16
- 2.731” H x 6.6” L Single Slot
- USB support of 3D Vision Pro
The Quadro 600 has an MSRP of 199 USD and features the NVIDIA Giga Thread engine, nVidia Scalable Geometry Architecture, GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5, 30 Bit color, and NVIDIA Mosaic Technology.
Quadro 2000
This mid-range card is reported to pile on 42% better performance than the Quadro 600 and processes 410 million triangles per second. Additional specs are:
- 192 CUDA parallel processing cores
- 1 Gig DDR5 frame buffer memory
- 128 Bit Memory Interface
- 41.6 GB/s memory bandwidth
- DVI-I and DP(2) display connections
- 62W max power consumption
- PCI Express 2.0×16
- 4.376” H x 7” L Single Slot
- USB support of 3D Vision Pro
The Quadro 2000 insludes all the support of its entry level partner, adds NVIDIA SLI Multi OS, and has an MSRP of 599 USD.
Both cards include decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 pt 2, h.264, DivX 3.11+, and Flash 10.1+.
