Nvidia brings Quadro Fermi based GPUs

MUMBAI, INDIA: Nvidia, the global leader in visual computing technologies and inventor of GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), announced on Monday the latest range of its Quadro GPUs for Indian market.

According to the company, the Quadro GPUs provides a complete range of professional solutions to serve diverse set of visual computing needs across verticals and helps in meeting the challenges of cost and innovation.

The latest Quadro GPU range is claimed to have error correction codes (ECC) memory with fast IEEE standard precision floating point performance. The new range includes Quadro 4000 (Rs 79,134), Quadro 5000 (Rs 1,64,934), Quadro 2000 (Rs 39,534) and Quadro 600 (Rs 13,134). This range is available in the market through the company’s channel partners.

However, Quadro 6000 (Rs 3,29,934) and Quadro Plex 7000 (USD 14,500) will be available by the year-end and the Quadro 5000 M-based mobile workstations from HP and Dell is expected to be available in the market by the third quarter of this fiscal.  

It has combined high performance computing capabilities with advanced visualization for applications that demand highest accuracy such as medical imaging, finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics.

These GPUs are based on Nvidia’s Fermi architecture and built on industry standards such as OpenGL4.1, DirectX11, DirectCompute and OpenCL.

“For over a decade Quadro has been the choice of professionals around the world. We have also built engines like AXE to enable the creation of next generation applications,” said Jeff Brown, Nvidia’s general manager — Professional Solutions Group.

“When you couple these technologies with our Fermi architecture, the result is a new Quadro family that’s exponentially better than anything the market has ever seen,” added Brown.

This apart, the Quadro GPUs leverages Nvidia’s AXE (Application Acceleration Engine) and CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) — parallel processing architecture that handles compute intensive tasks and processes including ray tracing, physics simulation, computational fluid dynamics and real time video effects processing.

The company also introduced the 3D Vision Pro, a three-dimensional stereoscopic solution for engineers, designers, architects and computational chemists that work with complex 3D designs and need more details for the work.

In simple terms, it’s a 3D wearable glass with range of 150 feet that works on Infrared radio frequency (RF) via a hub connected to desktop that transmits the data, which provides a rich reliable 3D viewing experience for large scale visualization environments like video walls and collaborative virtual environments (CAVEs).   

Nvidia 3D Vision Pro stereoscopic solution is expected to available in India by December end; however company has not disclosed its market price.

The NASDAQ listed company has about 91-92 per cent market share with the Quadro GPUs in the Indian market with customers from verticals such as manufacturing, media and entertainment, oil and gas, finance and geographic information system (GIS).