Press Release Most Powerful Professional GPU Ever for the Mac Dramatically Accelerates Design and Content Creation Workflows Mac professionals will benefit from dramatically improved graphics performance and productivity with today’s announcement of the NVIDIA® Quadro® K5000 for Mac Pro systems. Based on NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture – the world’s fastest, most efficient GPU design – the Quadro K5000 for Mac is the most powerful professional-class GPU ever for the Macintosh, delivering unprecedented visualization and computation capabilities for designers and digital content creators.

Model Clocks Memory 902 / 1502 MHz 12 GB GDDR5 902 / 1502 MHz 12 GB GDDR5 902 / 1502 MHz 12 GB GDDR5 902 / 1502 MHz 12 GB GDDR5 667 / 1500 MHz 8 GB GDDR5 706 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 706 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 706 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 706 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 706 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 771 / 1350 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 810 / 1404 MHz 3 GB GDDR5 1046 / 1253 MHz 4 GB GDDR5 1058 / 900 MHz 4 GB DDR3 1058 / 900 MHz 2 GB DDR3 954 / 1000 MHz 2 GB GDDR5 954 / 1000 MHz 2 GB GDDR5 876 / 891 MHz 1 GB DDR3 876 / 891 MHz 1 GB DDR3 706 / 891 MHz 512 MB DDR3. NVIDIA Quadro K5000 The NVIDIA Quadro K5000 graphics card takes advantage of the NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture to dramatically accelerate professional applications. You can count on superior interaction when designing with the most complex models, richer scene details and effects for content creation, and faster results when processing massive datasets for scientific exploration. The Quadro K5000 features a range of innovative features, including SMX for increased per-clock throughput of key graphics operations and bindless textures that enable the GPU to reference textures directly in memory.

Plus, it supports up to four displays—ideal for driving large-scale visualization solutions. Easily deploy ultra-high resolution scalable visualization configurations You can now drive up to four displays simultaneously and get full support of the next-generation DisplayPort 1.2 standard—capable of resolutions of 3840×2160 at 60 Hz. This makes it easy to deploy multiple displays across a desktop, build an expansive digital signage wall, or create a sophisticated stereoscopic 3D CAVE environment. NVIDIA’s latest technologies, coupled with a Quadro K5000, give you an easy, affordable way to perform image synchronization and resolution scaling of a synchronized display surface with multiple projectors or displays. These technologies include Quadro Sync, Quadro Mosaic, Quadro Warp/Blend, and GPUDirect. Interact with greater levels of model complexity in the design workflow The Quadro K5000’s next-generation streaming multiprocessor (SM) design, called SMX, offers several important architectural changes.

Nvidia Quadro K5000 Specs

These include substantial increases in per-clock throughput of key graphics operations that combine to deliver unprecedented performance and power efficiency. Plus the Quadro K5000 features large frame buffer capacity that lets you work with larger models and assemblies and improves interactive manipulation performance during the design process. Create richer scene details and effects for content creation The NVIDIA Kepler architecture introduces the concept of bindless textures, which enables the GPU to reference textures directly in memory. This effectively eliminates the limit on the number of unique textures that can be used to render a scene, and reduces the CPU overhead to deliver improved performance.

In fact, over one million unique textures are now possible. FXAA and TXAA film-style antialiasing technologies provide outstanding image quality for content creation and design reviews without compromising the interactive experience. Certified on industry-leading professional applications.

Designed and built specifically for professional workstations, NVIDIA Quadro GPUs power more than 150 professional applications across a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, media and entertainment, sciences, and energy. Professionals trust them to deliver the best possible experience with applications such as Adobe CS6, Avid Media Composer, Autodesk Inventor, Dassault Systemes CATIA and SolidWorks, Siemens NX, PTC Creo, and many more. For maximum application performance, add a Tesla K20 to your workstation and experience the power of NVIDIA Maximus technology. Press release, September 10; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Monday 10 September 2012 Based on Nvidia’s Kepler architecture, the Quadro K5000 for Mac is a powerful professional-class GPU for the Macintosh. The Nvidia Quadro K5000 GPU for Mac also features Cinema 4K display support (4096 by 2160 resolution), which enables content creators to process and view high resolution cinema content; a new display engine that can drive up to four displays simultaneously; 4GB graphics memory that provides faster interactivity when using design and content creation applications; support for up to two Quadro K5000 GPUs for Mac in a single Mac Pro; and support for OpenGL, OpenCL and Nvidia Cuda. Nvidia Quadro K5000 for Mac is ideal for professional applications such as video editing, color correction, compositing, design visualization and GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D rendering, said Nvidia.

In addition, the Quadro K5000 for Mac retains its full performance and features when using Apple Boot Camp and running Microsoft Windows-based professional PC applications. Nvidia Quadro GPUs are designed, built and tested by Nvidia to provide the superb reliability, compatibility and dependability that professionals require, and Quadro GPUs are certified and recommended by leading software application providers worldwide. The Nvidia Quadro K5000 for Mac is planned to be available late 2012 from select Apple resellers and system integrators, and from authorized distribution partners, including PNY Technologies in the Americas and Europe, Elsa in Japan and Leadtek in Asia Pacific.

Estimated pricing starts at US$2,249.