Quadro was Nvidia's brand for graphics cards intended for use in workstations running professional computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC) applications, scientific calculations and machine learning from 2000 to 2020.

These are desirable properties when the cards are used for calculations which require greater reliability and precision compared to graphics rendering for video games.

The Quadro line of GPU cards emerged in an effort towards market segmentation by Nvidia.

[dubious – discuss] To differentiate their offerings, Nvidia used driver software and firmware to selectively enable features vital to segments of the workstation market, such as high-performance anti-aliased lines and two-sided lighting,[4] in the Quadro product.

A client computer connects to Quadro Plex (using PCI Express ×8 or ×16 interface card with interconnect cable) to initiate rendering.

[9][10] Quadro SLI supports Mosaic technology for multiple displays using two cards in parallel and up to 8 possible monitors.

All software with CUDA or OpenCL, such as ANSYS, NASTRAN, ABAQUS, and OpenFoam, can benefit from VCA.

[28] This is accelerated by the use of new RT cores, which are designed to process quadtrees and spherical hierarchies, and speed up collision tests with individual triangles.

[162] 5 OpenCL 1.1 is available for Tesla-Chips,[163] OpenCL 1.0 for some Cards with G8x, G9x and GT200 by MAC OS X[164] Output [204] [205] [206] [207] The Nvidia Quadro NVS graphics processing units (GPUs) provide business graphics solutions[buzzword] for manufacturers of small, medium, and enterprise-level business workstations.

The Nvidia Quadro NVS desktop solutions[buzzword] enable multi-display graphics for businesses such as financial traders.

Hardware accelerated video encoding (via NVENC) and decoding (via NVDEC) is supported on NVIDIA Quadro products with Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, Ampere and Ada generation GPUs.