subject: Nvidia Announces Quadro K5000 Gpu For Mac Pro [print this page] The Quadro K5000 supports Cinema 4K display, ultra-high resolution format which is used for professional feature film that worked to make its way to home theatres. Available with two DVI-I ports and two mini display ports which allow to drive four displays simultaneously. The Nvidia also promises that the new Kepler architecture will offer double the processing power at lower wattage consumption than other Fermi architecture of older cards.
The improvement over older cards is a tacit acknowledgement from Nvidia that it is trying to perform better than the last time. The high-end Mac card, the Quadro 4000 is suffered from poorly written drivers offering inferior performance in many tests. Latest Quadro K5000 card is designed from the ground-up level for Apple's Mac Pro desktop computer. This brings the machine up to the latest standard in graphics performance. It comes up with many of professionals who have purchased Mac Pro machines which are wondering the time to abandon the ship. Many of the major films and telivision companies are disappointed by the new Final cut X worried by the lack of Mac Pro updates. These were also starting up to contemplate breaking up with that roughish rebel from Cupertino. The Apple has done little to reassure pro users and Mac Pro updates itself this summer and did not quell their fears specially when it became clear that Thunderbolt technology is still not included on top-of-the-line machines.
The Apple itself was unsure whether it should continue to develop the Mac Pro which is put out o pasture and complete the company's transformation into a mainstream maker friendly for consumer electronics. The audience at this year's WWDC that Mac Pro customers would get something really great. The year 2013 have a trickle of minor updates that have computer buyers wondering that the system is even prepared to meet their needs. The inability of the Mac to process 4K video had been cited by industries watchers as the lacunae would finally force films and video professionals to abandon the Mac platform.
The Quadro K5000 for Mac built around NVIDIA's latest Kepler architecture and double-wide card boasts 1536 processing cores which shuffle the pixels at up to 173 GB/s along with a 256 bit path to 4GB and Direct X11 while running Windows under BootCamp. Also supports up to four monitors which enables two running at 2560X1600 over dual-link DVI ports and two running up to 4096X2160 display port.