NVIDIA Quadro K510M

The NVIDIA Quadro K510M is a DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.3 compatible graphics card for affordable mobile workstations. It is a Kepler-based GPU built on the GK107 chip with 192 out of 384 shader cores activated and is manufactured in 28nm at TSMC. The Quadro K510M is built for the Intel Shark Bay generation (Haswell) and is a successor to the Quadro K500M (Chief River platform). As a new feature, PCIe 3.0 is supported for the first time. The K510M usually comes with 1 GB GDDR5 VRAM clocked at 600 MHz (2400 MHz effective, 19.2 GB/s). 

The Quadro series offers certified drivers that are optimized for stability and performance in professional applications like CAD or DCC. OpenGL performance, for example, should be significantly better than with GeForce graphics cards of similar specifications.

Architecture

The Kepler architecture is the successor to the Fermi architecture that first appeared in laptops with the GeForce 400M series. The GK107 Kepler core offers two shader blocks, called SMX, that are clocked at the same speed as the central core. In the K510M, only one block is active leading to the 192 CUDA cores. Although more shader cores are available in the Kepler architecture as compared to the Fermi design, the Kepler shaders are still expected to be up to twice as power efficient. However, due to the missing hot clock of the shader domain, two shaders of a Kepler chip offer similar performance to just one shader of a Fermi chip (as the latter is clocked twice as fast).

Performance

The performance should be clearly above the old Quadro K500M, but somewhat below the higher clocked Quadro K610M. This would place the K510M between the consumer GPUs GeForce 710M and GT 720M. However, the exact core clock has not yet been confirmed. Nevertheless, most demanding games of 2013 will run fluently only in low detail settings.

Features

The improved feature set now includes support for up to 4 active displays. Furthermore, high resolution monitors of up to 3840 x 2160 pixels can now be connected using DisplayPort 1.2 or HDMI 1.4a if available. HD-Audio codecs, such as Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD, can be transmitted via bitstream mode through the HDMI port. However, as most laptops will feature Optimus, the integrated GPU will likely have direct control over the display ports and may limit the feature set available by the Nvidia Kepler cards. Please note: The K510M does not supprt 3D Vision Pro.

Using CUDA or OpenCL 1.2, the cores of the Quadro K510M can be used for general calculations.

The 5th generation PureVideo HD video processor (VP5) is also integrated in the GK107 core and offers hardware decoding of HD videos. Common codecs such as MPEG-1/2, MPEG-4 ASP, H.264 and VC1/WMV9 are fully supported up to 4K resolutions while VC1 and MPEG-4 are supported up to 1080p. Two streams can be decoded in parallel for features such as Picture-in-Picture. Another novelty is the inclusion of a dedicated video encoding engine similar to Intel QuickSync that can be accessed by the NVENC API.

The power consumption of the Quadro K510M is rated at a TGP of 30 W including the board and memory components. Therefore, the card is suited for medium-sized notebooks with 15-inch displays or greater.

Quadro K Series Quadro K5100M 1536 @ 0.77 GHz 256 Bit @ 3600 MHz Quadro K5000M 1344 @ 0.71 GHz 256 Bit @ 3000 MHz Quadro K4100M 1152 @ 0.71 GHz 256 Bit @ 3200 MHz Quadro K4000M 960 @ 0.6 GHz 256 Bit @ 2800 MHz Quadro K3100M 768 @ 0.71 GHz 256 Bit @ 3200 MHz Quadro K3000M 576 @ 0.65 GHz 256 Bit @ 2800 MHz Quadro K2100M 576 @ 0.67 GHz 128 Bit @ 3000 MHz Quadro K1100M 384 @ 0.71 GHz 128 Bit @ 2800 MHz Quadro K620M 384 @ 1.03 - 1.12 GHz 64 Bit @ 2000 MHz Quadro K2000M 384 @ 0.75 GHz 128 Bit @ 1800 MHz Quadro K1000M 192 @ 0.85 GHz 128 Bit @ 1800 MHz Quadro K610M 192 @ 0.95 GHz 64 Bit @ 2600 MHz Quadro K510M 192 @ 0.85 GHz 64 Bit @ 2400 MHz Quadro K500M 192 @ 0.85 GHz 64 Bit @ 1800 MHz
Architecture	Kepler
Pipelines	192 - unified
Core Speed	846 MHz
Memory Speed	2400 MHz
Memory Bus Width	64 Bit
Memory Type	GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory	1024 MB
Shared Memory	no
API	DirectX 11, Shader 5.0, OpenGL 4.3
Power Consumption	30 Watt
Transistor Count	1.3 Billion
technology	28 nm
Features	Optimus, PhysX, Verde Drivers, CUDA, OpenCL 1.2, 3DTV Play
Notebook Size	medium sized
Date of Announcement	23.07.2013
Link to Manufacturer Page	www.nvidia.de

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