More useful than a Swiss Army knife and more hardworking than a
team of indentured Victorian orphans, there's very little NVIDIA's
Quadro GPUs can't do. Built on NVIDIA's innovative Fermi
architecture, they combine the precision of high performance
computing with advanced visualisation abilities, and are packed
with enough CUDA cores to ensure you'll see faster results on tasks
ranging from 3D modelling to stereoscopic grading and effects.
Fermi: swifter, stronger, smaller
The Fermi architecture found in Quadro GPUs means that they're
faster and more hardworking than older processors, but take up far
less space. They can speed up the performance of your design,
effects or 3D graphics software by up to five times, even if you're
performing intensive tasks like ray tracing and CFD.
Why buy NVIDIA from Jigsaw?
Our 3D and broadcast teams work closely with NVIDIA (you might
have seen us at the NVIDIA stand during this year's BVE, giving
hands-on demos of GPU rendering, or spotted the set of Quadro 4000s
powering our DaVInci Resolve tutorial). This means we're perfectly
placed to keep you up to date with the latest developments from the
NVIDIA camp, and can help you configure your hardware and software
to coax the maximum performance out of your graphics setup.
We aren't the only ones who go weak at the knees
at the first mention of Quadro GPUs. Thanks to their superior
performance, reliability and compatibility with multiple APIs,
they've been qualified for use with some top creative software.
Adobe CS5.5
A long-time partner of NVIDIA's, Adobe have
qualified the Quadro range for the new 64-bit versions of After
Effects and Premiere Pro. Read more
Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve
Resolve has built its flawless reputation on
the fact that come hell, high water or two dozen effects nodes on a
S3D clip, it always plays back in realtime. Its secret? Leveraging
the CUDA processing on NVIDIA's Quadro
FX4800 and
Quadro 4000 graphics cards. Read
more
Autodesk Smoke for Mac
Autodesk's all-in-one effects, editing and
finishing tool gives its best performance paired with a Quadro 4000
or FX 4800. Read more
GPU rendering
While CPU render farms are always going to be
a 3D artist's bread and butter, local GPU rendering is great for
previews and proxies. Two of the best GPU rendering accelerators
around - Chaos Group's V-Ray and mental images' iray - are both
Quadro-compatible.
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