NVIDIA Quadro, Same Pascal GP102 GPU as Titan Xp; NVIDIA May Have More Mainstream Cards Hidden [Video]

NVIDIA Quadro is a fully enabled Pascal GP102 GPU as the Titan Xp. PC builders and enthusiasts can now fully utilize the power of a Quadro GPU by spending only $1,200, a far cry from Quadro's $5,000. Moreover, NVIDIA's surprise revelation of the Titan Xp could indicate that there will be more consumer cards tucked away to fend off Vega.

The NVIDIA announced a couple of months ago that it will be bringing the full-fat Pascal GPUs into workstations. The NVIDIA Quadro GPUs will no longer be exclusive to custom server-only markets.

NVIDIA calls the new graphics card as the Quadro GP100. It is identical to the Tesla GP100 but only tweaked by NVIDIA to use its signature blower-style shroud that comes with the standard PCle interface.

Previously, the Quadro P6000 was the top-tier GP102-based card that was offered to the consumer-focused Titan X Pascal. The reign has now been transferred to the Titan Xp believed to have a better, faster memory than Quadro, Ars Technica reported.

The reported clock speed upgrade on the NVIDIA Quadro is from 10 to 11.4Ghz with 3,840 CUDA Cores. Moreover, it has reached a clock boost from 1,531MHz to 1,582MHz, TNI reported.

NVIDIA also gave the Quadro GPUs a complete makeover with the new launching of the P4000, P2000, P1000, P600 and the P400 cards. Not only that, the Quadro GPUs also have the same features with the consumer Polaris cards which range from the low-tier GTX 1050 to the Titan X Pascal. However, the arrival of the Titan Xp may alter the fate of the Quadro brand.

In the past, PC builders could only hold a GP102 GPU by purchasing the Quadro at a whopping $5,000. Now, the power and speed of the Quadro brand can be within reach by only $1,200, the current retail price of Titan Xp. While some PC builders were ecstatic, others were clearly annoyed. This is especially true for gamers who shelled out $1.200 for the Titan X Pascal, but within months are replaced by better, faster and cheaper cards.

The latest report reveals that NVIDIA may offer more consumer cards with powerful specs soon. This is the green team's way of combating AMD's RX Vega, which brings game-changing technologies like High Bandwidth Cache and High Bandwidth memory. Incidentally, Volta is believed to be the first HBM2 product of NVIDIA and the next-generation architecture. It is tipped to foil Vega's assault on its long-held GPU market.