Kepler-based Quadro K6000 and a Precision M6800

Was just reading the Engadget summary to this amazing video card.

Could it make it into the M6800?

The article says this fall.

NVIDIA announces 'fastest GPU ever' for pros, the 12GB Quadro K6000

Wow.

 

This is a desktop card so it won't show up in the M6800. There might be a mobile equivalent ("K6000M" or some such), less powerful of course. Based on what we've been seeing though, I'm expecting the next generation of mobile Quadros used in the mobile Precision to be labeled K1100M through K5100M, incremental upgrades over the current set.

[Edit]
This article about the K6000 confirms the new mobile Quadros, as I expected them to be.

 

The K5000m is already a very powerful card that pushes the mobile workstation towards it cooling limits. And IS currently the k6000 equivalent. But there's only so much power you can push through a laptop. Can it go higher? Maybe, but I'd doubt if there'd be a lot of takers to that extreme for a mobile application. Especially when its already throttled down when on battery.

Nothing about a RAM increase thought? Do you expect it would double as well? If it did that would truly be a phenomenal feat.

 

I wasn't expecting it but it looks like you're right. techPowerUp has some of the details of the new GPUs.

K5100M is listed with 8 GB of RAM. NVIDIA Quadro K5100M | techPowerUp GPU Database
K4100M has 4 GB. (Same as K4000M)
K3100M has 4 GB. (Doubled from K3000M's 2 GB)

And for the 15" users...

K2100M and K1100M both have 2 GB (same as before).

 

K5000M is a Quadro variant of the 680M (1344 shader units), K5100M is a quadro equivalent of the 780M (1536 units plus the RAM doubling, similar to K5000M and 680M) which is equivalent (unit number wise) to the desktop 680 (previous generation surpassed by GTX Titan and more affordable GTX 780 which push the shader unit core number above 2000).

The K6000 is even stronger than the GTX Titan which has nothing comparable in the mobile world. So, unfortunately, mobile GPUs are always at least a generation behind the desktop ones (but it used to be much worse - e.g. when the G92 based chips reigned for years), but that's not surprising considering the thermal limits. I'm surprised that we pretty much have equivalents of a desktop 680 (though they are noticeably lower clocked to reduce the power draw) in the laptops these days.

 

NVIDIA Quadro K3100M | techPowerUp GPU Database

768 cores, up from K3000M's 576 cores, this means K2100M will likely come with 576 cores (K2000M has 384 cores), then maybe we'll finally have a decent MXM-A graphic card.

 

That would be nice, since I don't need the IPS display, a M4800 with the high res display, optimus and a K2100M could be awesome. I'd probably repaste it to get the fan noise down as much as possible though.

 

Thanks for that. The K5100M sounds like an awesome bit of kit, and I am sure the price will be just as impressive. Really looking forward to seeing what Dell has planned for the M48 and M68.

 

Specs for the K2100M are up as well. It has 576 shaders and the K1100M has 384 (up from 192 on the K1000M).

On the low end of the spectrum, K1100M should hold up fine on the new thin M3800. Obviously not as fast as the MXM-B cards, but it has twice as many shaders as the K1000M, looks pretty much like a K2000M with slightly lower clock.

 

That's brilliant.

99% certain I'm getting M4800 as soon as it's available, if the design is similar to M4600/M4700 then I'm 100% gonna go for it.