NVIDIA announces ‘world’s most powerful’ GPU… for professionals

NVIDIA has announced the “most powerful graphics card” in the world. However wonderful the K6000 might be, it’s mainly for professionals.

“What professionals?” you may ask. Well, these include mostly big shots such as Pixar, Nissan and Apache who can afford spending more than US$2250 on one piece of hardware.

These types of cards set out to satisfy competitive designers which include anyone working on graphically intensive car manufacturing, geological data sets to CG animation. Basically most things that have to render things quickly. Will it play Crysis 3? Of course it would.

“It will significantly change the game for animators, digital designers and engineers, enabling them to make the impossible possible,” says Ed Ellett, senior vice president at NVIDIA.

Car manufacturing, for example, will take advantage of rendering photorealism almost instantly. It hold 2880 streaming multiprocessor cores deliver for faster visualization and compute horsepower than previous-generation products.

“I am now able to load nearly complete vehicle models into RTT Deltagen and have stunning photorealism almost instantly. Instead of spending significant time simplifying the models to fit into previous hardware, we can now spend more time reviewing and iterating designs up front which helps avoid costly changes to tooling,” says Dennis Malone, an associate engineer of Nissan.

This GPU also supports up to four 4k resolution displays running simultaneously. The Kepler-based Quadro K6000 has 12GB DDR5 which is said to be the world’s largest and fastest. “The added memory and other features allow our artists to see much more of the final scene in a real-time, interactive form, and allow many more artistic iterations,” says Guido Quaroni, Pixar vice president of Software R&D.

NVIDIA also announced its new flagship for workstation notebooks, the Quadro K5100M GPU of which no real information is given.