Nvidia has rather quietly introduced two new Quadro professional graphics cards, the Quadro M4000 and Quadro M5000. Based on Maxwell architecture, these two new Quadro graphics cards will complement Nvidia's new Quadro Maxwell lineup which already included the Quadro M6000.

Nvidia already introduced its first Maxwell-based Quadro M6000 graphics card in back March and now it has added two new members to the lineup, the Quadro M5000 and the Quadro M4000. Spotted by Kitguru.net, both the Quadro M5000 and the M4000 are based on Nvidia's GM204 Maxwell GPU and pack 2048 and 1664 CUDA cores, respectively. Both also pack 8GB of RAM paired up with a 256-bit memory interface.

The new Nvidia Quadro M5000 will be a bit more similar to the earlier released Quadro M6000 as it features ECC memory and uses a dual-slot cooler, while the new Quadro M4000 uses a bit simpler single-slot cooling and lacks ECC memory support.

Both new Quadro graphics cards support OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 1.2, DirectX 12, 3D Vision Pro, Quadro Sync and Nvidia SLI technologies.

Conveniently, Nvidia's comparison table does not include double-precision computing performance since Maxwell architecture does not include FP64 ALUs (arithmetic logic units), so in case you are going to run any scientific professional applications which rely on it, Kepler-based Quadro graphics card might be a better choice.







Source: Nvidia.com.