While the Quadro K2200 didn’t quite hit those heights in most of our hands on tests in SolidWorks and Creo (see below), we can see how this could be possible in some applications and workflows. Based on real-world 3D applications Nvidia claims users should see, on average, a 40 percent performance gain, generation over generation. While the Maxwell Quadros are more energy efficient, performance still scales well throughout the range, says Nvidia. If the Intel Xeon refresh had happened next year we may have seen an entire family of Maxell-based Quadros. Intel is leading this waltz with its ‘Haswell-based’ Xeon E5-series CPU, which is set to officially launch next month, setting in motion brand new workstations from Dell, HP, Lenovo and others.
Speaking at a pre-release press launch in New York last month Gupte called it a three-way dance involving Nvidia, Intel and the workstation manufacturers. The reason for this split family is all down to timing. The other three cards are all based on ‘Kepler’. Indeed Nvidia claims the new Quadro K2200, its mid-range CAD offering, provides users with a 90% performance improvement while only increasing max power consumption by 25%. The Quadro K620 and K2200 are actually based on ‘Maxwell’, Nvidia’s next generation GPU architecture, which Sandeep Gupte, senior director, professional solutions group at Nvidia, describes as being phenomenal in terms of performance per watt. The Quadro K6000, which Nvidia unveiled at SIGGRAPH in 2013, will remain the company’s flagship offering.įor two of the new cards, the ‘K’ prefix, that Nvidia introduced two years ago to mark the launch of its ‘Kepler’ family of Quadro GPUs, is a touch misleading. There are five new products in total – the Quadro K420, K620, K2200, K4200 and K5200 – all of which should be appearing in workstations in the September timeframe. Nvidia is back with a whole new family of Quadro GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), targeting the whole gamut of professional 3D users, from entry-level CAD all the way up to high-end design viz. This article was updated on Sto add performance figures from the Quadro K4200 and K5200
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