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NVIDIA^® Quadro^® K5000 - Professional Graphics Perfected

The NVIDIA^® Quadro^® K5000 graphics card takes advantage of the NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture to dramatically accelerate professional applications. With the NVIDIA Quadro K5000 you can count on superior interaction when designing with the most complex models, richer scene details and effects for content creation, and faster results when processing massive datasets for scientific exploration. The Quadro K5000 features a range of innovative features, including SMX for increased per-clock throughput of key graphics operations and bindless textures that enable the GPU to reference textures directly in memory. Plus, it supports up to four displays—ideal for driving large-scale visualization solutions.

Designed and built specifically for professional workstations, NVIDIA Quadro GPUs power more than 150 professional applications across a broad range of industries including manufacturing, media and entertainment, sciences, and energy. Professionals trust them to deliver the best possible experience with applications such as Adobe CS6, Autodesk Inventor, Dassault Systems CATIA and SolidWorks, Siemens NX, PTC Creo and many more.

CUDA™ Cores	1536
GPU Memory	4GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	173 GB/s
ECC (Error Correcting Code)	Yes
Display Connectors	DVI-I DL + DVI-D DL + DP 1.2 + DP 1.2 + Stereo
Maximum Number of Displays	4
Warranty	3 Years
PNY Part #	VCQK5000-PB

PNY provides unsurpassed service and commitment to its professional graphics customers offering: 3 year warranty, pre and post sales support, dedicated Quadro Field Application engineers and direct tech support hot lines. In addition, PNY delivers a complete solution including the appropriate adapters, cables, brackets, driver CD and documentation to ensure a quick and successful install.

CUDA™ Cores	1536
GPU Memory	4GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	173 GB/s
System Interface	PCI Express 2.0 x16
Maximum Power Consumption	122W
Idle Power	18W
Energy Star Enabling	Yes
Thermal Solution	Ultra-quiet active fansink
Form Factor	4.376" H x 10.50" L, Dual Slot
Display Connectors	DVI-I DL + DVI-D DL + DP 1.2 + DP 1.2 + Stereo
DisplayPort 1.2	Yes
DisplayPort with Audio	Yes
DVI-D Single-Link Connector	Via included adapters
VGA Support	Via included adapter
Number of Displays Supported	4
Maximum DP 1.2 Resolution	3840 x 2160 at 60Hz
Maximum DVI-I DL Resolution	2560 x 1600 at 60Hz
Maximum DVI-I SL Resolution	1920 x 1200 at 60Hz
Maximum VGA Resolution	2048 x 1536 at 85Hz
HDCP Support	Yes
Professional 3D Support	Yes, via included stereo connector bracket
Quadro Sync Compatible	Yes
HD SDI Capture/Output Compatible	Yes
NVIDIA GPU Direct Compatible	Yes
Graphics APIs	Shader Model 5.0, OpenGL 4.3, DirectX 11
Compute APIs	CUDA, DirectCompute, OpenCL
NVIEW	Yes
Mosaic Mode	Yes (Windows 8, 7, and Linux)
NVIDIA 3D Vision and 3D Vision Pro	Yes
Warranty	3 Years
PNY Part Number	VCQK5000-PB

3D Graphics Architecture

Scalable geometry architecture
Hardware tessellation engine
NVIDIA GigaThread engine with dual copy engines
Shader Model 5.0 (OpenGL 4.3 and DirectX 11)
Up to 16K x 16K texture and render processing
Transparent multisampling and super sampling
16x angle independent anisotropic filtering
128-bit floating point performance
32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending
64X full scene antialiasing
FXAA and TXAA full scene antialiasing
Decode acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile, H.264, MVC, VC1, DivX (version 3.11 and later), and Flash (10.1 and later)
Dedicated H.264 encoder
Blu-ray dual-stream hardware accelerating (supporting HD picture-in-picture playback)

NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Processing Architecture

SMX architecture (streaming multi-processor design that delivers greater processing and efficiency)
API support including: CUDA C, CUDA C++, DirectCompute 5.0, OpenCL, Java, Python, and Fortran
NVIDIA Parallel Data Cache hierarchy (configurable L1 and unified L2 caches)
Error-Correction Code (ECC) memory
64KB of RAM (configurable partitioning of shared memory and L1 cache)
Dual Warp Schedules (schedules and dispatches simultaneously instructions from two independent warps)

Advanced Display Features

30-bit color (10-bit per each red, green and blue channel)
Support for any combination of four connected displays
DisplayPort 1.2 (up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz and 2560 x 1600 at 120Hz)
DVI-I Dual-Link output (up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz and 1920 x 1200 at 120Hz)
DVI-D Dual-Link output (up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz and 1920 x 1200 at 120Hz)
Internal 400MHz DAC DVI-I output (analog display up to 2048 x 1536 at 85Hz)
DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4, and HDCP support (HDMI requires 3rd party adapter)
10-bit internal display processing
NVIDIA 3D Vision™ technology, 3D DLP, interleaved, and other 3D stereo format support
Full OpenGL quad buffered stereo support
Underscan/overscan compensation and hardware scaling
NVIDIA NVIEW multi-display technology - NVIDIA Mosaic technology
Support for large-scale, ultra-high resolution visualization including Quadro Mosaic, Quadro Sync and Warp/Blend technologies

DisplayPort and HDMI Digital Audio

Dolby Digital (AC3), DTS 5.1, multi-channel (7.1) LPCM, Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), and MPEG-2/MPEG-4 AAC
Data rates of 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96KHz, 176KHz, and 192KHz
Word sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit

Minimum System Requirements

Windows^® 7, Vista, XP SP3, Linux^®, or Solaris^®
PCIe x16 expansion slot
1GB or more of system memory, 2GB recommended
200MB of available disk space for full driver installation
Blu-ray, DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive
DisplayPort, DVI or VGA compatible display(s)

GPU FEATURES

NVIDIA^® CUDA^® Architecture
Parallel-computing architecture that tightly integrates advanced visualization and compute features to significantly accelerate professional workflows.

NVIDIA Scalable Geometry Engine
Dramatically improves geometry performance across a broad range of CAD, DCC and medical applications, enabling you to work interactively with models and scenes that are an order of magnitude more complex than ever before.

Large Framebuffers with Ultra-Fast Bandwidth
Large GPU memory with fast bandwidth for display of complex models and scenes, as well as computation of large datasets.

Dual Copy Engines
Enables the highest rates of parallel data processing and concurrent throughput between the GPU and host, accelerating techniques such as ray tracing, color grading and physical simulation.

Bindless Textures
Dramatically increases the number of unique textures available to shaders at run-time, enabling vastly more different materials and richer texture detail in scenes.

NVIDIA SMX
Delivers more processing performance and efficiency through this new, innovative streaming multiprocessor design that allows a greater percentage of space to be applied to processing cores versus control logic.

H.264 Encoder¹
Dedicated H.264 encode engine that's independent of 3D/compute pipeline and delivers faster than real-time performance for transcoding, video editing, and other encoding applications.

Ultra-Quiet Design
Silent cooling design enables acoustics lower than 28db for an ultra-quiet desktop environment.

IMAGE QUALITY

Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 64X FSAA for dramatically reducing visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies," resulting in unparalled image quality and highly realistic scenes.

NVIDIA FXAA and TXAA
Reduces visible aliasing and delivers higher image quality without the performance hit by harnessing the power of the GPU's CUDA cores and new film-style AA techniques.

GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5.0
Quadro Tessellation Engines automatically generate finely detailed geometry for cinematic quality environments and scenes, without sacrificing performance.

16K Texture and Render Processing
Provides the ability to texture from and render to 16K x 16K surfaces. Beneficial for applications that demand the highest resolution and quality image processing.

DISPLAY FEATURES

NVIDIA Quadro Mosaic Technology
Enables transparent scaling of the desktop and applications across up to 16 displays from 4 GPUs from a single workstation while delivering full performance and image quality.

Quad-Display Support
All-new display engine drives up to four displays simultaneously and fully supports the next generation Display Port 1.2 standard capable of resolutions such as 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz, making it easy to deploy multiple displays across a desktop, build an expansive digital signage wall, or create a sophisticated stereoscopic 3D CAVE environment.

NVIDIA^® NVIEW^® Advanced Desktop Software
This software delivers maximum flexibility for single large display or multi-display options, providing unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience for increased productivity.

DisplayPort 1.2 Support (with Audio)
Compact and secure DisplayPort 1.2 connectors support multi-stream technology, stream cloning and ultra-high-resolution panels (up to 3840 x 2160 at 60Hz ). This enables maximum range, resolution, refresh rate, and color depth designed to support the latest display technologies.

30-Bit Color Fidelity
10-bits per red, green, and blue). Enables billions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range.

HD SDI Capture and Output
Industry's only GPU-accelerated solution for real-time acquisition, processing, and delivery of high-resolution SDI video, across traditional and now 3D video broadcast, environments. Supports uncompressed 8-, 10-, 12-bit SDI via available Quadro SDI Capture and Quadro SDI Output cards.

Quadro Sync
Ensures image and frame synchronization between up to four GPUs when running Quadro Mosaic or independent GPUs in cluster. Quadro Sync also allows synchronization to an external timing source (also known as genlock or house sync). Quadro Sync enables advanced visualization systems to scale the resolution of the display surface with multiple projectors or displays with standard applications or applications designed for clusters.

NVIDIA 3D Vision^® and 3D Vision Pro^®
Advanced active shutter glasses that deliver crystal-clear stereoscopic 3D visualization for the most immersive experience. Infrared (3D Vision) or RF (3D Vision Pro) technology enable a range of immersive environments from your desktop workstation to collaborative work spaces. 3D Vision and 3D Vision Pro are sold separately.

OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support
Provides a smooth and immersive 3D Stereo experience for professional applications. Professional 3D Stereo Synchronization Enables robust control of stereo effect through a dedicated three-pin mini-din connection to directly synchronize 3D stereo hardware to Quadro graphics card.

SOFTWARE SUPPORT

NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Architecture
Quadro solutions leverage general-purpose GPU computing using standard programming languages like C/C++ and Fortran, and emerging APIs such as OpenCL and Direct Compute. This broad adoption of CUDA accelerates techniques like ray tracing, video and image processing, and computation fluid dynamics.

NVIDIA GPUDirect
NVIDIA GPUDirect capability increases compute performance when data throughput or latency reduction are key considerations by allowing direct access to GPU memory by 3rd-party devices such as SDI video adapters, NICs and SSDs.

NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video
NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video technology allows 3rd party hardware to communicate directly with NVIDIA GPUs. By taking advantage of this new API the historical issues of introducing too much delay or latency are gone. With NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video, devices are fully synchronized and the CPU doesn't waste cycles copying data between device drivers.

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 professional graphics board
Stereo connector bracket
Two DisplayPort to DVI-D SL adapters
DVI-I to VGA adapter
6-pin auxiliary power cable
Driver CD for Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP SP3 (32- and 64-bit)
Printed QuickStart Guide

	Bunkspeed SHOT with iray Experience interactive ray tracing through the power of mental images^® iray^® technology inside Bunkspeed SHOT™ software. View Video
	Design Garage for Quadro See how the Design Garage demo for Quadro is built upon the NVIDIA^® SceniX™ scene management engine and uses the NVIDIA OptiX™ ray tracing engine, all driven by Quadro professional graphics solutions. View Video
	ViewPerf Breakthrough Application Performance with Quadro Solutions See true breakthrough performance as the newest Quadro solutions are benchmarked using SPECviewperf^® 11. View Video
	Computational Visualization of 4D Cardiac Flow Dr. Robert Herfkens, director of radiology at Stanford University, demonstrates how the new Quadro solutions enable the ability to recreate and visualize 4D cardiac blood flow in real-time. View Video
	Mari 3D Texture Painting by The Foundry Amazing 3D texture painting software developed for the production of Avatar, Mari 3D enables amazing levels of detail, utilizing the power of Quadro GPUs and its large frame buffer. View Video
	Nuke Compositing Application by The Foundry Quadro enables blazing-fast performance with the Nuke visual effects tool for compositing. View Video
	Physics in real time with RTT RealFluid and Quadro Solutions See how you can display results in real time, with physically correct visualization of simulation data using RTT RealFluid and Quadro professional solutions. View Video
	The Wonders of 3D Imaging with Siemens and Quadro Experience the wonder of life with a new level of ultrasound in 3D with Siemens syngo^®.fourSight™ Workplace software and Quadro professional graphics solutions. View Video
	Interactive Ray Tracing with RTT DeltaGen and Quadro Solutions See how you can view in real-time ultra-realistic virtual prototypes using RTT DeltaGen and Quadro solutions for quick design reviews. View Video
	Real-time Video Reconstruction with Motion DSP Ikena software and Quadro See how high-resolution video can be reconstructed in real-time to provide richer, cleaner detail using MotionDSP Ikena^® video enhancement software and CUDA technology. View Video

NVIDIA Scalable Visualization and Mosaic Solutions
PNY offers a range of Quadro-fueled solutions ranging from multi-monitor workstation configurations to CAVE environments powered by Quadro Plex 7000 visual computing systems – in 2D or 3D stereo. Learn how Quadro visualization solutions can take virtual or augmented reality applications to the next level of capabilities and performance.

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY Grayscale Solutions
Studies show that diagnostic speed and accuracy are both improved by 10- or 12-bit capable imaging solutions; this presentation recommends specific Quadro products capable of delivering 10- or 12-bit grayscale images for medical and diagnostic imaging applications.

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY Graphics for Design Professionals
The entire design workflow is going digital – and the assets generated by this transition are now usable by marketing and sales to bring a product to market with a full array of traditional and web-based media assets. Learn how Quadro can take any Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or Xeon-based workstation to new levels of performance, interactivity, and productivity.

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY (including Multi-GPU) for 3ds Max and iray
Learn how NVIDIA Quadro by PNY graphics solutions combined with 3ds max and iray are raising the bar for 3ds Max users with features such as photorealistic iray-enabled interactive raytracing. Quadro DirectX and CUDA acceleration, in many instances augmented by multiple GPUs are defining the new edge of the 3D design or DCC workstation performance envelope. Recommended configurations for the most demanding 3ds Max user are also listed.

NVIDIA Quadro by PNY for SolidWorks 2012
Learn how NVIDIA Quadro by PNY professional graphics boards can accelerate any SolidWorks-based workflow. From inspiration to initial customer delivery Quadro delivers all of the latest SolidWorks features, such as RealView, enabling unprecedented design interactivity and productivity.