New NVIDIA Quadro 5000 for Mac Pro

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Thanks Jim! Just to avoid confusion: it’s Quadro K5000, not just 5000. Some highlights:
– 1536 CUDA cores (vs. 448 in in the more expensive Quadro 6000)
– 4GB GDDR5 RAM
– dual slot PCIe 3.0
– 173GB/s bandwidth (vs. 144GB/s in Quadro 6000)
– 2150 Gflops single precision (vs. 1030 in Q6K)
– 90 Gflops double precision (vs. 515, 359 and 243 in Q6K, Q5K and Q4K, respectively)
– 1.8 billion triangles per second (vs. 1.3 billion in Q6K, 950 million in Q4K)
– 122W max power consumption (vs. 204, 152, 142 in Q6K, Q5K and Q4K)
– $2250 SRP

The fact that it only consumes 122W peak power – less than a single-slot and much less powerful Quadro 4000, allows to use two of them in a Mac Pro – although with two of them, it seems that only one slot remains available (for an I/O or a RAID card).

I believe (but could be wrong) that this is also the first high end Quadro card allowing to hook up more than two monitors simultaneously.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Dennis Radeke]

I can’t imagine topping out the potential of this card in the near term with Premiere Pro. The Quadro 4000 is a sweet card, but this one seems unstoppable. Plus, Alex is correct – power usage is a big deal and also an indicator of how well designed it is.

Also, we don’t support multiple cards for GPU acceleration. I doubt you’d be able to add that much potential GPU anyway, so one card will go a long ways! Who needs 8 potential monitors on a system anyway?!?!

Can’t wait to get one (for PC in my case) to play with!

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Dennis Radeke] “Also, we don’t support multiple cards for GPU acceleration”

Indeed; I only mentioned it because it’s a big deal for Mac people who could really use dual high-end GPUs for a certain color correction application. (I don’t think I can mention its name on this forum… :P)

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Dennis Radeke]

Da Vinci is fine! I’m cool with it and we want to make sure XML exchange stays robust between the applications.

Unless, I’m mistaken on which app you’re alluding to.

[Ramil Pasibe]

I am also looking forward to this card as well. I am hoping that 4K monitors would reach around US 10K next year as soon as the manufacturing and competition from various brand picks up; then we’ll be able to put this card to the test – 4K editing and 4K monitoring.

[Chris Borjis]

[Dennis Radeke] “Da Vinci is fine! I’m cool with it and we want to make sure XML exchange stays robust between the applications.”

Dennis, you guys are awesome.

I wish I could justify the purchase of one of these right now.
No budget for one in both my systems (for now)

[Nevin Styre]

After Effects CS6 will use all the CUDA cores from multiple GPUs to do raytracing rendering, there is definitely a benefit if you do a fair amount of raytracing.

[Jud Johnson]

Any idea when this k5000 will be released? I’ve asked many Nvidia guys on different forums but everyone keeps dodging my question (very annoying). Anyone on this thread know?

Thanks!

Jud Johnson
Luxe Films
http://www.luxefilmshouston.com

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Jud Johnson] “Any idea when this k5000 will be released? I’ve asked many Nvidia guys on different forums but everyone keeps dodging my question (very annoying). Anyone on this thread know?”

Newegg says 10/24 for the PNY version.

It’s released and in the supply pipeline, authorized distribution has the SKUs in their systems but no ETA yet. I’d guesstimate about two weeks. Three SKUs I am seeing so far: one PNY and two HP versions (smartbuy and regular). Surely Dell and Lenovo will follow suit shortly.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

[Jud Johnson]

Hey Alex,
Thanks brother! Do you know if the K5000 will work with the Tesla C2075 in the “maximus” configuration?
It’s not clear on the Nvidia website wether it does or not.

Jud Johnson
Luxe Films
http://www.luxefilmshouston.com