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Nvidia has brought its biggest fully enabled Pascal GPU out of the custom server-only market and into workstations. Dubbed the Quadro GP100, the new graphics card features the same GPU as the Tesla P100, but it comes packed into Nvidia’s trademark blower-style shroud, complete with a standard PCIe interface. The Quadro P6000 was the previous top-end Quadro card, and it was based on the GP102 GPU used in the consumer-focused Titan X Pascal.

The Quadro GP100 has a very different architecture and focus compared to Nvidia’s consumer-facing cards, or even other Quadros. Instead of every Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) containing a collection of CUDA cores dedicated to the single precision (FP32) floating point calculations favoured by computer graphics applications like video games, the Quadro GP100 has an additional 32 FP64 CUDA cores per SM. This, Nvidia says, results in around 5 teraflops of FP64 performance or half the FP32 rate—a dramatic increase over the 1/32 FP32 rate of the P6000.

Typically, FP64 is favoured in scientific applications where 64-bit double precision math is required. The Quadro P100 also features double-speed (packed) FP16 instructions.