August 2013

NVIDIA Quadro 6000 Professional Graphics Card
Professional graphics solution for hardcore users.
Article By Steven R. Rochlin

  As all state-of-the-art computer graphic card enthusiasts know of NVIDIA, the company just released their Quadro 6000 professional graphics solution! Delivering up to 8x faster performance across a broad range of design including animation and video applications, the Quadro 6000 is built on NVIDIA's Fermi architecture. As the first professional-class GPU to integrate high performance computing capabilities with advanced visualization techniques, the new card has Scalable Geometry Engine technology. This aids in the video card delivering 1.3 billion triangles per second, said by the company to "thus shattering previous 3D graphics limitations".

With some modern applications taking advantage of the latest NVIDIA CUDA parallel processing architecture, the Quadro 6000 can deliver performance gains up to 8x faster when running computationally intensive applications such as ray tracing, video processing and computational fluid dynamics. For high-precision, data-sensitive applications, the Quadro 6000 is claimed to be "the only professional graphics solution with ECC memory and fast double precision capabilities to ensure the accuracy and fidelity of your results. From medical imaging to structural analysis applications, data integrity and precision is assured, without sacrificing performance". 

The Quadro 6000 is not only a graphics processor; it drives an entire visual supercomputing platform. It incorporates hardware and software that enables advanced capabilities such as stereoscopic 3D, scalable visualization and 3D high-definition broadcasting. For those who demand the very best, the new NVIDIA Quadro 6000 is the new top dog!

Key aspects of the new video card's performance include:

1. Handles 12GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 graphics memory to allow unprecedented speed and resolution ability.

2. A total of 2,880 streaming multiprocessor (SMX) cores that are claimed to provide  faster visualization and computational horsepower than earlier video cards.

3. Up to four simultaneous displays are supported and up to 4k resolution with DisplayPort 1.2 

4. With ultra-low latency video I/O, the card supports large-scale visualizations.