A year has passed now since the successful lunch of Nvidia’s® Quadro® FX1800, and it has to be acknowledged by many as a successful mid range card that had a bit of bang to it. In recent months we have covered all the high performing Quadro® Fermi performance cards and they have without doubt caught many unawares to the sheer power beneath the hood. Like all professional cards the refresh comes along and therefore the time has now come upon us to now reveal the Quadro® FX1800’s replacement with the Quadro® Fermi 2000. Bouncing right in we notice a significant difference within the cards design as you will note within page X. Smaller and yet much more powerful than its predecessor. Could this be an option many have been looking for, giving an edge with leading CAD and DCC applications.
Taking a step back and looking at what the baseline bread and butter optimised systems Tier 1, Tier 2’s S.I.’s and VAR’s sell directly into studios and the like. This new card promises to deliver much more and most importantly at similar pricing. The mammoth leap in CUDA cores available will enable many to utilise their already optimised software to greater performance levels. Helping this along an increase in memory bandwidth and that all important step up to 1GB of onboard memory of the much faster GDDR5. Therefore pulling out all the stops from the usual professional applications and benchmarks we gave the Nvidia® Quadro® 2000 a good airing to see how it really did perform.
In order to see at a glance we put together a differences table between the 2 cards
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Technical Specifications |
Nvidia® Quadro 2000 |
Nvidia® Quadro FX1800 |
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CUDA Parallel Processors |
192 |
64 |
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GPU Memory |
1024MB GDDR5 |
768MB GDDR3 |
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Memory Width |
128-bit |
192-bit |
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Memory Bandwidth |
41.6GB/s |
38.4GB/s |
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FSAA (maximum) |
64x |
16x |
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ECC |
No |
No |
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PCI Express |
Generation 2 |
Generation 2 |
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Display I/O |
1 x DL-DVI + 2 DP |
1 x DL-DVI + 2 DP |
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Maximum Power Consumption |
62 Watts |
59 Watts |
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Form Factor |
Single Slot |
Single Slot |
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Feature Support |
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| OpenGL | 4.0 |
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Microsoft Direct X |
11 |
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Shader Model |
5.0 |
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NVIDIA CUDA Architecture |
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Quadro®Panoramic |
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NVIEW Display Management Software |
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3D Vision Pro |
Support via USB |
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Display Support |
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Dual Link DVI-I |
1 |
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DisplayPort |
2 |
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# of Digital Outputs |
3 ( 2 out of 3 active at a time ) |
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Maximum Display Resolution Digital @ 60Hz |
2560×1600 |
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FSAA (maximum) |
64x |
With the aid of Nvidia’s public relations team we therefore find the following
Design, iterate and deliver higher quality results in less time with the Quadro 2000 mid-range professional graphics solution. Delivering the industry’s best class performance across leading CAD and DCC applications, Quadro 2000 provides an affordable, high performance experience that can transform how engineers, designers and animators work every day.
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The revolutionary Quadro GPU architecture The breakthrough NVIDIA® Fermi architecture tightly integrates advanced visualization and compute features delivering performance that greatly accelerates professional workflows. |
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Advanced industry solutions with cutting-edge capabilities, designed for professionals Quadro 2000 delivers advanced capabilities including 3D Vision™ Pro for the highest quality stereoscopic 3D environments, SLI Multi-OS to drive multiple Windows or Linux environments from a single workstation, and Panoramic Mode enabling any application to seamlessly scale across up to 8 displays without sacrificing performance. |
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Supercharged professional applications NVIDIA professional software technologies such as CUDA™ software and NVIDIA Application Acceleration Engines, and optimized drivers enable Quadro GPUs to further accelerate applications including SolidWorks, 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and many more. |
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Designed, built and engineered by NVIDIA to the highest standards of quality Quadro solutions are designed, built and backed by NVIDIA to ensure the highest standards of quality, delivering industry leading performance, capabilities and reliability. |
Next the features
Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – The Nvidia® Quadro® 2000 Features
Page 3 – Nvidia® Quadro® 2000 Pictures
Page 4 – System Set-Up and Software Used
Page 5 – SiSoftware Sandra 2011
Page 6 – Cinebench 11.5 64-bit, Bentley MicroStation, Redway Turbine Benchmark
Page 7 – SPECapc SM for 3ds Max 9 TM and SPECapcSM for Maya 2009
Page 8 – SPECviewperf® 11.0 64-bit and SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
Page 9 – Conclusions and Award