Nvidia has unveiled its fastest graphics card to date, the Quadro P6000.
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The Quadro P6000 is based on Nvidia’s new Pascal graphics architecture, and it uses a GPU with 3,840 processing cores. With its 3,840 cores and an fantastic 12 TFlops of compute power, designers will be able to manipulate complex designs up to twice as fast as before.
In addition, the Quadro P6000 GPU will come with four DisplayPort 1.4 slots, to support resolutions up to 4K at 120Hz and 5K at 60Hz. It also has lower powerdraw at a TDP of 180W compared to the Quadro P6000’s 250W but those could be insignificant for workstation builders.
“Often our artists are working with 50GB or higher datasets”, said Pixar CTO Steve May. “We’re looking forward to testing the limits of Pascal and expect the benefits to our workflows to be huge”. Nvidia also revealed a Quadro P5000 card, which packs less-impressive hardware.
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It is important to note that Nvidia may decide to release a GeForce-branded GP102 graphics card in the future, delivering similar gaming performance to the Titan X while lowering its INT8 compute capabilities in order to sell the product at a more reasonable price. The graphics card is targeted at designers who have to create complex simulations for everything from engineering models to virtual reality games. Interested buyers would need to shell out thousands of dollars at least to get the new cards more powerful than the GTX Titan X and the GTX 1080.
