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Best graphics card for 3D rendering?

Hey guys, my friend is doing graphics and motion desgin and was about to buy a 3000 dollar mac but me and my buddy convinced him to go the PC route.

 

His buget is around 2000 dollars and im just wondering which graphics card would best suit his needs. I was thinking a quadro may suit his need well but i just dont know much about them. Also I know this isnt the right forum but if you have any suggestions on cpu's that would be awesome too!

 

Any help would be awesome! :)

 

*EDIT: His buget for the whole pc is 2000, not just for the GPU, thats my bad

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Quadro K5000 as suggested above i guess.

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is the rendering going to be some top notch Pixar style rendering ?

He is currently doing some professional work but I dont think he is at Pixar god teir level yet

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K4000 would probably be his best bet if he can work the budget to fit it. The next step down would be a K2000 which would be a little low for the budget. You may also want to consider some options from AMD and their FirePro line if you want something to compete with the aforementioned cards or fill in that price gap in the middle.

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Go with the Quadro K5000 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009L8E4UO. Definitely the most efficient card in your budget.

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It all depends on the software, though.

There are modelling programs that could take use of the specific Quadro program profiles that are in the Quadro drivers or only work with OpenCL.

Then there are programs that will render with anything and where a Titan Black will have a price advantage over the K5000.

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2000 for the whole pc not just the card

In that case, the EVGA GTX Titan Black SC http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IKQOPZW would be better suited.

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the software defines if you want a amd or nvidea card. opengl or cuda....

 

and dont get a quadro or tesla card unless you will be running them 24/7 and if an hour of downtime will cost you more then a 1000 bucks..

 

those pro cards are just for bussinesse who cant afford downtime at all and for who 100% uptime is more important then raw performance.

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