Well well well, the upcoming 22nd Nvidia Launch just got potentially more exciting. We have received independent confirmation of the Nvidia Quadro M6000 via a highly reliable source: Driver Updates. This particular card was first spotted some time ago in the TechPowerUp GPU database and now its presence in drivers more or less confirms it nearing launch date. Mentioned also is the Quadro K1200which I assume is a low end Kepler refresh of the Quadro Series.

Big Daddy Maxwell paper launching on the 22nd? Quadro M6000 (GM200GL) and K1200 Confirmed

We have been waiting for big daddy Maxwell aka GM200 card to arrive for quite some time now and it looks that is going to happen pretty soon. Nvidia has the 22nd January event coming up and unless I am very much mistaken, it will unveil its Quadro Flagship as well equipped with the GM200GL core. The INF update in question can be found over at LaptopVideo2Go and here is an extract of the relevant portion:

NVIDIA_DEV.13BC = "NVIDIA Quadro K1200"

NVIDIA_DEV.17F0 = "NVIDIA Quadro M6000"

Now you might recall the specifications that appeared on TechPowerUp some while back. Well, if you remember the device ID, it was 10DE-17F0, the same device id now depicted in this update. This pretty much confirms the card existence and indicates that consumer samples are being prepared (if not already). If the GPUZ tool was reading the core correctly then the following are the specifications of the GM200 GPU: