NVIDIA sends in mobile Quadro reinforcements

NVIDIA has today upped the ante for mobile workstations by introducing five new Quadro products.

The GPU giant has expanded their lineup with the addition of the FX 380M, FX 880M, FX 1800M, FX 2800M, and FX 3800M mobile Quadro solutions. These new professional graphics cards are designed to power the next generation of Core i7 mobile workstations from Dell, HP, Lenovo and Fujitsu.

The Quadro FX 380M kicks off the updated roster at the affordable “entry-level” price point. It offers 512MB of GDDR3 memory, 12.8GB/sec memory bandwidth, 16 CUDA cores and features an astonishingly low max power consumption of just 25W. Debuting in the new HP EliteBook 8440w mobile workstation, the 380M allows the 8440w to offer the punch of a mobile workstation in an incredibly small 14.1″ form factor.

Capping off the “mid-range” solutions are the Quadro FX 880M and Quadro FX 1800M. The FX 880M has 1GB of GDDR3 memory, 25.6GB/sec memory bandwidth, 45 CUDA cores and a max power consumption of 35W. The FX 1800M shares similar specs, but boosts the memory bandwidth to 35.2GB/sec and pushes the available CUDA cores up to 72. The Quadro FX 880M can be found in the HP EliteBook 8540w, Lenovo ThinkPad W510 and Fujitsu CELSIUS H700 mobile workstations, while the Quadro FX 1800M is available in the HP EliteBook 8540w.

Finally, the “high-end” mobile solutions, the Quadro FX 2800M and Quadro FX 3800M, bring out the big guns. The FX 2800M has an impressive 1GB of GDDR3 with memory bandwidth of 64GB/sec and totes 96 CUDA cores. The Quadro FX 3800M shares similar specs, but boosts the CUDA cores up to 128, all while keeping the max power consumption below 100W. Both The Quadro FX 2800M and the beefy Quadro FX 3800 are available in the 17″ Dell Precision M6500.

Today’s new solutions retain the features you’ve come to expect from Quadro GPUs: 30-bit Deep Color support, CUDA architecture and NVIDIA’s stereoscopic dance party, 3D Vision. The feature sets, coupled with the performance and reliability that users have come to expect from Quadro products, make these new solutions attractive offerings to anyone looking for a mobile DCC or CAD computing platform.