Nvidia's latest Quadro GPU cards speed up a variety of tasks, according to the company.
The new Nvidia Quadro cards incorporate the company's Pascal technology to deliver twice the performance of the previous generation for tasks such as design and simulation.
"Professional workflows are now infused with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and photorealism, creating new challenges for our most demanding users," said Nvidia vice-president of professional visualisation Bob Pette.
"Our new Quadro lineup provides the graphics and compute performance required to address these challenges. And, by unifying compute and design, the Quadro GP100 transforms the average desktop workstation with the power of a supercomputer."
{loadposition stephen08}The new GPUs are the GP100, P4000, P2000, P1000, P600 and P400.
The GP100's double-precision performance is more than 5 TFLOPS, nearly three times faster than the Quadro K6000. Combined with 16GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), this means users can conduct simulations during the design process. Where necessary, two GP100 GPUs can be combined via NVLink.
For deep learning applications, the GP100 offers 20 16-bit TFLOPS.
Other benefits of the new range include improved VR performance from the GP100 and P4000, faster rendering of photorealistic images, and support for high resolution and HDR colour on up to four 5K displays for visualisation.
For digital signage, up to eight P4000 GPUs and two Quadro Sync II cards can be fitted to a single chassis to control up to 32 4K displays.
The new cards join the P6000, P5000 and mobile GPUs, completing the Quadro Pascal range.
Customers and OEMs welcomed the new GPUs.
"The NVIDIA Quadro P1000 enables me to work at the speed of thought. Orange County Choppers relies on a number of 3D CAD design and visualisation tools to build the most innovative custom motorcycles in the world and the P1000 easily handles everything we throw at it. It's the perfect GPU for an ultra-compact workstation like our Boxx Apexx 1," said Orange County Choppers senior designer Jason Pohl.
Dell vice-president and general manager of Precision workstations Rahul Tikoo said, "As a leader in workstation technology we know that all of our Dell Precision users rely on the best performance to push the boundaries of their creativity. The new Pascal based Quadro graphics help push the most powerful mobile workstation, the Precision 7720, to become the first VR-Ready notebook in its class, as well as enabling our tower workstations to create photorealistic renders faster than ever."
HP vice-president of worldwide workstations product management Josh Peterson said, "HP Z Workstation customers are some of the most demanding GPU and CPU customers on the planet. Quadro Pascal will be supported across the HP Z Desktop Workstations portfolio, enabling our professional users to push their creative boundaries in product development, media and entertainment, AEC and anywhere that professional graphics are required."
Lenovo general manager and workstation business unit executive director Rob Herman said, "The new NVIDIA GP100 will be beneficial to our customers in industries such as design and manufacturing who require extreme compute capability for larger datasets. The unmatched power of the Lenovo ThinkStation P910 offers workstation users best-in-class performance with up to three NVIDIA GP100 GPUs, enabling customers in deep learning, AI and simulations to process more data in real time."
The new Quadro products will be available from March.