These new studio drivers add more than just 30-bit color support, but also unlock a multitude of creative software to work with NVIDIA’s RTX features. It’s not just desktop GPUs affected here, but laptops as well, for the growing number of mobile workstations. This feature dilution of 30-bit color is yet another strike against the Quadro, leaving ECC memory, large framebuffers, multi-display sync, higher NVENC stream allowances, and high-level CAD and simulation software as the remaining features. If you are a regular reader of ours, then you’ll know that there are only a handful of occasions where Quadros are allowed to shine over their GeForce cousins. When the TITAN Xp was released, a number of software optimizations were transferred over from the Quadros.
This new support comes at a strange time, as the whole Quadro line of GPUs has continued to suffer from exclusive features being removed, and it is raising questions about what is that makes Quadros so special anymore. As of today, anyone with a Pascal or Turing architecture GPU will be able to enable 30-bit color with the latest Studio Ready driver. Most creative software like Adobe Premiere use OpenGL as the backbone, where those extra bits go ignored on an incompatible GPU (note that the situation has been the same for AMD’s Radeon Pro vs. But as more people take up streaming and even meddle with video editing, being able to record and edit those videos in their native 30-bits has proven problematic.
For a while now, NVIDIA has allowed 30-bit color in DirectX, required for the HDR features to work in games and video decoding. However, with the rise of HDR (high dynamic range) films and now games, it’s becoming more important to have real support for that extra color depth.
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