ANNOUNCING Next-Gen NVIDIA MAXIMUS
Workstations with the latest NVIDIA® Maximus™ technology provides SolidWorks users with even greater graphics and computational performance than ever before. You get incredibly fast and surprisingly cost efficient ways to perform accurate CAE simulations while still working in SolidWorks. All right at your desktop.

As always, all NVIDIA professional graphics solutions are certified and tested by SolidWorks and NVIDIA, so they'll work perfectly from day one.

For more information, visit our Maximus workstation page. NVIDIA has taken industry tests to a new level. Working closely with SolidWorks and users like you, we've developed advanced tools that mimic the real-life manipulation of how you use your models on a daily basis. As a result, you get a more accurate representation of how SolidWorks will perform based on which GPU is used.

When comparing previous generations of NVIDIA professional graphics in SolidWorks 2012 to current generation graphics in SolidWorks 2013, you can see dramatic performance improvement in all design modes. Significant changes have been made in SolidWorks 2013 to better leverage the GPU for edge display. You will experience this difference in component design where you use edges the most all the way to large assembly design where turning on edges is now a realistic, real-time performance display choice. So, go ahead and enable Shaded with Edges, Shadows or FSAA - and create your visions without limitations.

A little known fact about the most popular SolidWorks add-in, eDrawings, is that it works in 3D! Everyone knows how valuable eDrawings is for sharing native SolidWorks files for design or marketing reviews. But, imagine the amount of detail that can be displayed in stereoscopic 3D to really give your customers and managers the true representation of your design. To learn more, visit our SolidWorks eDrawings page.

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For the most remarkable, life-like models in a fraction of the time, Quadro professional solutions accelerate Bunkspeed. Bunkspeed is an interactive ray-tracing application that harnesses the immense processing power of the NVIDIA GPU. With an amazingly easy-to-use intuitive interface, Bunkspeed quickly and accurately simulates the physical world, so you don't have to. By easily integrating with SolidWorks Standard or Premium, you get a seamless workflow from design to photorealistic imagery without any data loss.

Bunkspeed integrates into SolidWorks for a seamless workflow.

Unlike consumer gaming cards, Quadro professional graphics solutions enable RealView and full scene antialiasing (FSAA). With RealView and Quadro, your 3D models quickly come to life and interact with their environments. You can assign various appearances and scenes, change materials, textures or surroundings and your model will instantly appear the way a real world item should. By enabling FSAA, jagged edges are removed from contours of geometries for smoother, more realistic models. Which means, with Quadro under the hood, you'll get the highest quality, most realistic images.

QUADRO SOLUTION	Quadro K5000	Quadro 4000	Quadro 2000
SolidWorks Usage	Large assemblies with complex parts	Large assemblies with simple parts Small assemblies with complex parts	Small/medium assemblies with simple parts
GPU Memory	4 GB GDDR5	2 GB GDDR5	1 GB GDDR5
Replaces	Quadro 5000 Quadro FX 4800 Quadro FX 4600	Quadro FX 3800 Quadro FX 3700 Quadro FX 3500	Quadro FX 1800 Quadro FX 1700 Quadro FX 1500

Quadro professional graphics solutions are engineered, built, and tested by NVIDIA to provide the highest standards of quality for maximum system uptime. Delivering industry leading performance and capabilities, Quadro solutions are backed by an extended three (3) year warranty to ensure your system's reliability. With advanced support for a multiple display environment, you can view more content to boost productivity. In addition, with robust features, including unified driver architecture and NVIDIA® nView® display management software, Quadro solutions offer IT departments an easy to deploy and manage solution. It's no wonder that nine out of ten CAD users choose Quadro for their workstations.

1 NVIDIA benchmarks performed in Solidworks 2012 versus SolidWorks 2013 with stated graphics boards using the same models with average assembly size of 1000 components on a workstation with Xeon 3.3 Ghz (w5590) 6 core CPU, 6Gb of RAM, Windows 7 64bit. Shaded with edges, shadows and FSAA turned on.

2 CUDA Parallel Processing Cores cannot be compared between GPU generations due to several important architectural differences that exist between streaming multiprocessor designs.

Simulation allows you to discover misaligned parts while still in the design phase.

Quadro K5000 >4 GB >1536 CUDA Cores2

Quadro 4000 >2 GB >256 CUDA Cores

Quadro 2000 >1 GB >192 CUDA Cores

> Help me choose which Quadro    solution is right for me.

Side by side comparison of SolidWorks 2012 with Quadro FX1700 versus Solidworks 2013 with Quadro 2000.

Choosing the right GPU for SolidWorks.

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