Welcome to the "pro" card market... I only use quadros because that's what the sells we use ship with... Long gone are the days when people cards were worth their sticker price On Apr 4, 2013 4:28 PM, "olivier jeannel" <olivier.jean...@noos.fr> wrote:
> I should be out of the office, but will test asap. > For the quadro, well it was bundled with the workstation (HP Z620). It's > no problem if the quadro is more expensive and produce better performance. > It becomes a problem if they are really bellow game cards. > Your gtx has more than 400 cores while the 4000 has 256... They are > supposed to be stronger when working though... > > > Le 04/04/2013 09:13, Octavian Ureche a écrit : > >> Here you go: >> >> http://www.nvidia.com/object/**product-quadro-4000-us.html<http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-4000-us.html> >> http://www.geforce.com/**hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-** >> gtx-470/specifications<http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-470/specifications> >> >> The last one is what i currently have. as you can see, the quadro's >> memory bandwith, cuda cores and memory interface are below the gtx. But you >> have bigger vram which means you can cram more into the scenes. >> Speed wise, given the differences it might be slower at the actual >> rendering, but we're talking gpu rendering here so i'm not sure if it's >> going to be that much noticeable. >> Do a render with both scenes and post your times in the forum. Then we'll >> know better how hardware affects the performance. >> >> To be honest, i always found quadros to be extremely overpriced, but >> maybe that's just me. >> > >
