Good news from the GPU world as some random crackerjack has shown his facile capacities and converted the famous GPU GTX 690 into a fully working Quadro K5000 graphics card. Some moderate level hardware adjustments and there you are , your computer will show Quadro K5000 in the Nvidia server settings.

The main driving intention behind this tech savvy act which moved the GPU pundits is the lack of support of GTX 690 graphics card for the Linux environments which is a colossal feature of Quadro K5000 cards, also known as business cards in the industry costing twice as much as the GTX 690. Modding the card makes Nvidia surround available for Linux which is not supported by GTX 690.  The Quadro K5000 is regarded as  a single-GPU card intended for business use and consumer markets which is of high class than the GTX paradigm. Quadro K5000 uses specially certified devices but the best part is, the latest tweak by the savvy removes all these requirements and one can use the Quadro capabilities without these hustles. .

Its not completely sure that tweaked GTX 690 cards can purely act as Quadro K5000 because the hardware level change in PCB and PCI Device ID can make the Linux box think that it is running a Quadro but the actual capabilities that are offered by real Quadro might not be used efficiently because the ECC enabled memory is not supported by the consumer cards.

The virtuoso tweaking and defting is not new in the GPU domains as there have been many changes from low level cards to high level expensive GPU’s. The tweaker has asked more donations in the forum where he posted to buy another GPU, who knows we might hear some other slicky tweak in the upcoming days.

via tomshardware