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Quadro

Long-running professional graphics family before the RTX professional rebrand. Architecture coverage: Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine, Curie, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal. Quadro was NVIDIA's main professional visualization brand for CAD, DCC, simulation and certified workstation use. Gaming performance is not the reason to choose most Quadro cards.

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Series Overview

Long-running professional graphics family before the RTX professional rebrand. Architecture coverage: Celsius, Kelvin, Rankine, Curie, Tesla, Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal. Quadro was NVIDIA's main professional visualization brand for CAD, DCC, simulation and certified workstation use. Gaming performance is not the reason to choose most Quadro cards.

Quick Facts

Architecture
Fermi, Fermi 2.0, Kepler, Kepler 2.0, Maxwell, Maxwell 2.0, Pascal, Tesla 2.0, Volta
Launch range
2010-2019
Memory types
DDR3, GDDR5, GDDR5X, HBM2
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5 entries

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44 entries

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