Nvidia Quadro

The Nvidia Quadro series of AGP, PCI, and PCI Express graphics cards comes from the NVIDIA Corporation. The cards' designers aimed to accelerate CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and DCC (digital content creation), and the cards are usually featured in workstations (compared to the NVIDIA GeForce product line, which specifically targets computer gaming). Competing products include the FirePro line of workstation graphics cards by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (made formerly by ATI Technologies, Inc.). Companies such as Matrox and Avid also focus on specialized hardware-accelerated graphics cards intended primarily for DCC.