Nvidia has unveiled its newest Quadro M5500 8GB mobile graphics card for VR-ready mobile workstations.

Just ahead of the GPU Technology Conference which should kick off today, Nvidia has decided to unveil a new Quadro mobile graphics card, the Quadro M5500. Based on Nvidia's GM204 Maxwell GPU, the same one behind desktop GTX 980/970 graphics cards, the new Quadro M5500 packs 2048 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs and 64 ROPs as well as 8GB of GDDR5 memory.

The GPU is clocked at up to 1140MHz while 8GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 6.6GHz and paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. Nvidia also managed to keep the TDP at 150W.

This is also the first Quadro mobile graphics card that is branded as VR-Ready, and only one that can meet HTC and Oculus hardware recommendations.

The announcement of the new Quadro M5500 also marks the Nvidia push into professional VR market, with VR Works, VR SLI and plenty of other upcoming projects.

The new Nvidia Quadro M5500 graphics card should start showing up in various notebooks soon and the first one to be announced is MSI's WT72 mobile workstation, a 17.3-inch notebook with Intel Mobile Xeon CPU and Quadro M5500 graphics card, making it a mean VR-ready system.







Source: Nvidia.com.