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Everyone from all hardware suppliers
today has to be extremely proud of what
they have presented and has been
witnessed from within.
When we had been first advised of the
cards impending arrival; the brief and a
very good one at that, was it would be a
high-quality, high performer and we
would have seen nothing like it in a
long time. How right Nvidia has
been. Words we are lost for; as this
truly is a huge leap in the professional
graphic's industry with the expertise
development that has sprung out of
NVIDIA's door. Today has to have been
one of the most momentous days within
NVIDIA's history both factually
and on paper. This exciting new
offering from NVIDIA® is the most
significant technological advancement
within the professional graphic card
industry for quite some time. Support
from Tier 1 and 2 will be enormous and
notwithstanding the support from the S.I.'S
and VARS.
Whilst
supporting a beta driver the Quadro®
5000 has leap up through the scales and
we have successfully demonstrated the
scalability of the card over its
predecessor the Quadro® FX4800. In
some areas we see a 50% increase, and
with an FSAA increase up to 64X - on
certain OEM systems with the cards in
SLI mode we can witness a massive 128X
FSAA. These are figures that are
beyond belief to the extreme modeller,
artist and architect, though what it
offers is that of utter flexibility.
But it doesn't stop here as the compute
power that the card has to offer is
without a doubt - desirable. Medical,
Oil and Gas, Science and even the
Financial houses have so much to gain
from this one card
and of course not
forgetting those other technical
professionals demanding nothing but the
best out from their workstations.
Much of this performance improvement is
down to the architecture of the new
product, some down to the driver team,
the unsung heroes that so many forget
about. The results shown within have
been extra-ordinary to say the
least. This card most certainly has
overtaken its predecessor in many ways,
faster memory, the aid of 352 CUDA
Cores - this will help many in complex
drawings and rendered outputs. Life in
the professional graphics card market
has just shifted up directly into top
gear. Today's article has only been the
tip of the iceberg. As we have so much
more to present to you in the forth
coming months.
The results shown within SPECviewperf®
11 have been astonishing indeed. This
new professional benchmark takes no
prisoners at all as we have witnessed.
Other powerful professional graphic
cards have been ground to a halt - for
now. What is noticeable is the Quadro®
5000 driver stability and across the
board performance on both operating
system platforms. It is very obvious
even to the untrained eye on how well
tuned each run has returned on the
individual operating systems that are
quite different in so many aspects.
For those who still maintain the usage
of SPECviewperf® 10 there has to have
been some extreme surprises for you as
there was here. This will be our last
outing on SPECviewperf® 10 as the
benchmark now has been retired - but
what a way to go. The results under
both Windows 7 and XP Professional will
have many aghast with awe at the power
from the Quadro® 5000. The results
shown speak very clearly for themselves
as a picture paints a thousand words;
consequently there was absolutely no
need for a running commentary of the
results gained from each system. It
has been one of those events that we
would have wished to have shown more,
but the clock ticked hard and fast
against us as there is a huge demand to
see this excellent new graphics card
from NVIDIA. There is so much it has to
offer. Time really was completely
against us and we only had a short few
days to complete all from fresh. What
is conclusive; is that the base line
tests from
SPECviewperf® 11.0
have returned substantial amounts
of indisputable results for the Nvidia
Quadro® 5000 which is exceptional for a
low cost Ultra High End Solution
professional card.
Within the
brief we had been made aware of several
other cards in the new remit. The
Quadro® 4000 and the Quadro® 6000. The
Quadro® 4000 comes weighing in with 2GB
of GDDR5 memory and 256 CUDA Cores.
The Quadro® 6000 tips the scales with
6GB of onboard memory and 448 CUDA
Cores. The Quadro® 6000 is a very
specialised card indeed and more to
follow on it soon. The Quadro® 4000
slots into the Quadro® FX3800 extremely
successful remit. When we have more
details on these cards they will be
presented to you as quickly as possible.
Pricing and availability on going to
print. Both Quadro® 4000 and Quadro®
5000 cards will be shipping in the next
few days, so with
what's hot off the press will be hot on
the resellers plate. The
Quadro® 6000 with a shipping date of
beginning of October. This
might seem a bit away, but the demand
will be big for this card, therefore
as we stipulated earlier, get that
pre-order in now. We anticipate an
exceptional high demand from what we
have seen, and with this in mind get the
orders in very quickly indeed to avoid
disappointment. As the rush will be on.
MSRP of the new range
are
Quadro 6000 - $4,999 USD - £3265 UKP -
€3866 Euro's
Quadro 5000 - $2,249 USD - £1469 UKP -
€1740 Euro's
Quadro 4000 - $1,199 USD - £785 UKP -
€930 Euro's
Note
- All prices are before shipping and
local taxes
For those in concern
of their current corporate line up there
are currently no plans to stop producing
FX4800 and FX5800. The Quadro® FX 3800
will be replaced by the Quadro® 4000,
but the Quadro® FX4800 and Quadro®
FX5800 will continue to be sold along
with the new line up. However what has
been seen today with the performance
output and aggressive pricing, then
there should be no hesitation at all in
swiftly upgrading to the new Quadro®
range. The time and investment
into such a notable key component has
been huge more than anyone will know,
but all the analysts alike will be
watching very closely to the markets
reaction, which will be favourable.
There is so much to
gain with so little effort.
We have taken 3 sets of systems
encompassed the new NVIDIA Quadro® 5000
that soon will be readily found within
all studio's and workplaces if they are
not there already. The Quadro® 5000
performance shown within, is without a
doubt on all the platforms superb, no
more can the cry of we need more power
and speed. Well it's here. In the
interim, those who cannot wait "the
need for speed" is here without a
doubt. "Fast is good and Fast is what
we want", therefore in these scenarios
shown within, fast is what you have most
certainly got. This is without doubt
the marketers dream come true in every
aspect of todays product shown. Can we
get any faster, only time will tell as
the software packages from the ISV's
catch-up and true to these words they
are indeed.
Final comments and predictions on the
way ahead, what has been observed within
today has been exceptional and all
within NVIDIA's HQ must be quietly
pleased with themselves and we are sure
that the champagne corks will be firing
out with delight. Its been some time
since a product of this magnitude has
hit the streets and for the customers
that left, many will come rushing back.
It takes a very special kind of magic
to put all this together.
After all, we
have witnessed today one of the most
noble demonstrations of complete raw
compute power from just one GPU.
Therefore after many months maintaining
the lead, ATI has now lost to NVIDIA®
who in turn have regained the illusive
Golden Laurel Crown in the Ultra High
End place.
Not by strength, by guile. The futures
bright, the futures Quadro. |
