Four Zotac Titan Blacks or one PNY K6000 for workstation build?

[Izaya Orihara]

So I'll be bulding a crazy workstation for a client (Atleast I've got the request but I may turn It down as I don't seem to know enough about professional grade hardware, GPUs in particular to make an elaborate decision. I mean this would be a 10k + build so that's quite a bit of money) (Dual 12 core Xeons, 128 GB DDR4 reg ECC ram ...)  and I was wondering what would be better four Titan Blacks or one PNY K6000? 

He uses cinema 4D, after effects, Element 3D and edits 4k video professionally. 

 

So yeah. Four Titan Blacks for 3300€ or a K6000 for 3800€? 

[mr.skyrim_pc]

How about you send me the computer with the 4 titan blacks and the K6000, and I'll test it and see what is better.

[GloriousPain]

unless they use applications that can take advantage of quadros or require quadros I'd say the titans...

[Guest Kloaked]

K6000.

 

I had to build a slightly lower-end workstation than that for a client recently who wanted a Titan over a Quadro. I was like man, you will have better performance in your work with a Quadro, ignore the names, lolol.

 

What you could also do is look up those software suites and see what GPU's that they recommend for users, which is what I did. I'm 99.9999999% sure you'll find that going with a Quadro should be no-brainer.

[Izaya Orihara]

Not sure if trolling or not, but if its a true workstation, get the Quadro.

Not trolling. As I stated.

 

I may turn It down as I don't seem to know enough about professional grade hardware, GPUs in particular to make an elaborate decision. I mean this would be a 10k + build so that's quite a bit of money

[Tech_Dreamer]

Two r9 295x2 instead of 4 titans , otherwise go for the quadro(x2)

[_ASSASSIN_]

Two r9 295x2 instead of 4 titans , otherwise go for the quadro(x2)

this isn't gaming lol, cuda could make the bigger difference over openCL depending on the software being used here.

[Enderman]

 

It's hard to find benchmarks, but 4 titan blacks will definitely outperform a single k6000.

Unless he needs 10bit colour output, the titan blacks will be way faster at rendering, and will be compatible for hardware acceleration in more programs than a quadro.

[AlexGoesHigh]

K6000.

 

I had to build a slightly lower-end workstation than that for a client recently who wanted a Titan over a Quadro. I was like man, you will have better performance in your work with a Quadro, ignore the names, lolol.

 

What you could also do is look up those software suites and see what GPU's that they recommend for users, which is what I did. I'm 99.9999999% sure you'll find that going with a Quadro should be no-brainer.

this, cheeking which programs benefit from which cards is a good way to start

[Guest Kloaked]

 

 

It's hard to find benchmarks, but 4 titan blacks will definitely outperform a single k6000.

Unless he needs 10bit colour output, the titan blacks will be way faster at rendering, and will be compatible for hardware acceleration in more programs than a quadro.

 

That's a benchmark test though. I don't know about every single application, but not all of them will use SLI.

[mlecruz]

Don't some workstation programs actually require you to use Quadro? Linus mentioned it in one of his Workstation Build videos.

[Enderman]

That's a benchmark test though. I don't know about every single application, but not all of them will use SLI.

Oh you're right...forgot about SLI

 

In that case get the quadro.

[mvitkun]

So I'll be bulding a crazy workstation for a client (Atleast I've got the request but I may turn It down as I don't seem to know enough about professional grade hardware, GPUs in particular to make an elaborate decision. I mean this would be a 10k + build so that's quite a bit of money) (Dual 12 core Xeons, 128 GB DDR4 reg ECC ram ...)  and I was wondering what would be better four Titan Blacks or one PNY K6000? \

He uses cinema 4D, after effects, Element 3D and edits 4k video professionally. 

So yeah. Four Titan Blacks for 3300€ or a K6000 for 3800€? 

It depends what he uses to render the scene in C4D. Certain renderers like iRay and Octane can just brute force renders and make use of multiple GPUs to provide quick renders.

And the GPUs would help in managing scenes that are extremely complex.

That's a benchmark test though. I don't know about every single application, but not all of them will use SLI.

That benchmark doesn't use SLI lol.

SLI is pretty much just for games, you can use multiple graphics cards in workstation applications without it.

They make use of the rendering power of each individual graphics card.

And Octane Render benchmark is a benchmark using a GPU renderer that is available on the market to render 3D scenes on the GPU rather than on the CPU.

It accurately represents how you can expect that renderer to perform in C4D so no it isn't just "a benchmark test."

[Guest Kloaked]

That benchmark doesn't use SLI lol.

They make use of the rendering power of each individual graphics card.

And Octane Render benchmark is a benchmark using a GPU renderer that is available on the market to render 3D scenes on the GPU rather than on the CPU.

It accurately represents how you can expect that renderer to perform in one of the programs listed above, C4D, so no it isn't just "a benchmark test."

 

 

So the applications the OP listed will take advantage of multiple Titans?

[mvitkun]

So the applications the OP listed will take advantage of multiple Titans?

I know C4D would for the viewport, and it might help with rendering if he has a GPU based render-er.

 

I'm pretty sure AE would benefit from them as well, not sure if AE scales as well though.

[mvitkun]

So I'll be bulding a crazy workstation for a client (Atleast I've got the request but I may turn It down as I don't seem to know enough about professional grade hardware, GPUs in particular to make an elaborate decision. I mean this would be a 10k + build so that's quite a bit of money) (Dual 12 core Xeons, 128 GB DDR4 reg ECC ram ...)  and I was wondering what would be better four Titan Blacks or one PNY K6000? 

He uses cinema 4D, after effects, Element 3D and edits 4k video professionally. 

So yeah. Four Titan Blacks for 3300€ or a K6000 for 3800€? 

Might want to tweet @edzelyago (@dezeltheintern), he has a system with 3 or 4 Titan (blacks) with a 24 core Xeon.