NVDIA GPU Education Center

The American NVIDIA Corporation is a multinational company (has branches in many countries), specialized in production of graphics processors technologies for computers and small mobile devices (for example: smartphones). The company, based in Santa Clara, California, is main company supplying electronic chips for motherboard chipsets, smart phones’ graphic controller, graphics processing units (GPUs), and game consoles.

GPU FEATURES

• Next-Generation NVIDIA® CUDA™ Architecture
  Breakthrough NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, code named Fermi, tightly integrates advanced visualization and compute features delivering application performance that greatly accelerates professional workflows.
• 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. Quadro5010M (4 GB GDDR5), Quadro 4000M, 3000M (2 GB GDDR5), Quadro 2000M, 1000M (2 GB DDR3).
• NVIDIA Parallel DataCache™
  Supports a true cache hierarchy combined with on-chip shared memory. L1 and L2 caches drive exceptional throughput, accelerating features such as real-time ray tracing, physics and texture filtering.
• VIDIA® 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 more complex than ever before.
• 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 more complex than ever before
• Error Correction Codes (ECC) Memory
  Meets strict requirements for mission critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability. Offers protection of data in memory to enhance integrity of results. Available only on Quadro 5010M. 
• NVIDIA® GigaThread™ Engine
  Provides up to 10x faster context switching compared to previous generation architectures, concurrent kernel execution and improved thread block scheduling.
• 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. Available only on Quadro 5010M.
• Fast 3D Texture Transfer
  Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures resulting in more interactive visualization of large volumetric datasets.