NVIDIA has announced the Quadro M Mobile series. based on Maxwell GPUs, the new chips are Nvidia's response to Intel's mobile Xeon, the Xeon E3-1500M v5. Launching today, the NVIDIA Quadro M5000M, M4000M, M3000M, M2000M, M1000M and M600M mobile GPUs give you a full range of choices to power your workflows.

Built on our Maxwell GPU architecture, this new generation of Quadro processors delivers performance and power efficiency. According to Nvidia, it's up to 2X faster than its predecessor, with up to 8GB of GDDR5 memory, the largest on any mobile workstation.

The Quadro M3000M, M4000M, and M5000 are all based on NVIDIA's GM204 GPU. The most powerful of these is roughly comparable to the GeForce GTX 980M, with 1536 CUDA cores enabled. It's also the only SKU to get 8GB of VRAM. Meanwhile the 1280 and 1024 CUDA cores respectively is the M4000M and M3000M, which use further cut down GPUs and pair it up with 4GB of VRAM. Both the M5000M and M4000M are top-wattage 100W parts, while the M3000M brings that down to 75W.

The M600M, M1000M, and M2000M are based on the company's GM107 GPU, so the Quadro M Mobile family is going to be split between the Maxwell 2 and Maxwell 1 architectures.

The M2000M features 640 CUDA cores and 4GB of VRAM, while the M1000M drops to 512 CUDA cores and 2GB of VRAM, with the M600M bringing up the rear with just 384 CUDA cores and 2GB of VRAM. TDPs for these parts are 55W, 40W, and 30W respectively.

Quadro-powered mobile workstations pack enough punch to run the same professional applications as desktop workstations - at nearly the same level of performance with lower power consumption. They're already certified for more than 100 applications, ensuring compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk and many others. Plus, these GPUs accelerate NVIDIA Iray, Nvidia's physically based rendering technology, by more than 2X over the previous generation.

You'll find our latest mobile GPUs in workstation models launching throughout the rest of the year, including the new Dell Precision 15 5000 Series, and the Dell Precision 15 and 17 7000 series, the HP ZBook workstations and the Lenovo ThinkPad P50 and P70.