The Radeon Pro Duo has greatly come down in price to $799 and is a great deal for software developers needing the pro grade drivers to develop for the professional Radeon Pro WX market. So the Titan Z and Radeon Pro Duo have their lower cost development/compute uses but they can not be used for actual production runs as that requires the full Quadro/Radeon Pro WX(Formally Firepro) SKUs that have all the error correction bells and whistles required for actual production work. Even AMD took that route with it’s Radeon Pro Duo with developers getting the professional level drivers that allowed them to develop applications on the Radeon Pro Duo that could be directly transferred to the more expensive Radeon Pro WX SKUs that cost 2+ times as much. The Titan Z was for professional DP compute non graphics workloads with its lack of more expensive Quadro pro graphics driver features but still having more DP performance than a consumer gaming GPU. Will this product ever be priced at a point that makes sense for consumers and the GeForce product line? I doubt it if we see any other Pascal-based GeForce product (non-Titan) it will be from the GP102 lot, a P6000/Titan X (Pascal) priced down to take on AMD’s upcoming Vega GPU.Īlong with the flagship and highly interesting Quadro GP100, NVIDIA announced a line of Quadro cards from the P4000 to the P400, with varying levels of performance, memory capacity and features. This means that any wafer capacity still rolling through a 16nm fab facility can be utilized, even if it happens to be at a lower ASP. With nearly a year on the market already in the form of HPC-class Tesla products, my guess is that NVIDIA was waiting for that high-margin, high-dollar market to saturate out some before offering the same performance on a lower priced, more easily accessible product like the Quadro GP100. It is interesting to see NVIDIA’s strategy with GP100 and the P100 GPU pan out. The Quadro P6000 sells for $4500 on Amazon today, so I expect the GP100 to be above that, likely in the $8000-10k range. Pricing hasn’t been disclosed as NVIDIA only says that its partners and system integrators will be offering up options starting in March. It integrates much like an SLI connection on the Quadro GP100. This also marks the first time we have seen NVLink implemented at an add-in card level, leaving the possibility for the technology to be used for multi-GPU configurations for consumers in 2017. Based on GP102, the P60 CUDA cores running at something around 1500 MHz for a total of 12 TFLOPS. With 3584 CUDA cores running at somewhere around 1400 MHz at Boost speeds, the single precision (32-bit) rating for GP100 is 10.3 TFLOPS, less than the recently released P6000 card. Most interesting is that despite the pricing and segmentation, the GP100 is not the de facto fastest Quadro card from NVIDIA depending on your workload. There are some interesting stats here that may not be obvious at first glance. Let’s take a look at the Quadro GP100 specifications and how it compares to some recent Quadro offerings. Today that GPU hardware gets a third iteration as the Quadro GP100.
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