Why do you need Quadro for video editing?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Probably asked many times before, but please give me specifics.

 

old vs new quadros?

[Extingquish]

I think the main benefits are having 10 bit colour support + a better binned chip AFAIK

[Godlygamer23]

The drivers are heavily optimized for professional tasks.

Obviously newer Quadros will perform better than older ones.

[Prastupok]

Probably asked many times before, but please give me specifics.

 

old vs new quadros?

 

Some CAD applications will outright refuse to use consumer GPUs.

 

Quadros are more efficient, better binned (cherry picked from the top of the running), with better drivers and are designed for 24/7 operation.

A consumer GTX GPU will only estimate certain calculations, while a Quadro (or FirePro, for that matter) will continue calculating until the work is done.

 

It means they are slow for games, but very accurate. In professional applications, that accuracy is absolutely necessary.

 

New Quadros will perform better than old. Some new ones have added features, but the idea is the same across the board.

 

Edit: As huilun02 said, for video editing, you don't necessarily need one unless you're getting paid for the work, and are rendering huge projects for days on end.

Edited March 1, 2015 by Prastupok

[zappian]

Mainstream cards will work.

 

Quadros have better drivers and more custom tailored features for that type of scenario.

 

They also work MUCH better than cards for 3d rendering ( such in as modeling tasks etc)

 

For video editing I think mainstream cards work almost as well.

 

I think the editors on LMG use mainstream cards for that purpose but I might be wrong.

[Blebekblebek]

afaik before CPGPU technology is become common, it is faster rendering with GPU, and only quadro / firepro series capable to do it.

[Prastupok]

afaik before CPGPU technology is become common, it is faster rendering with GPU, and only quadro / firepro series capable to do it.

 

For GPGPU tasks, Tesla series cards are much better suited, actually.

[Blebekblebek]

I was asked to build something with it in 2004, that was my first build and knowing this stuff, he ask firepro though, because quadro is so much expensive, though that firepro is already expensive as it is. He use it for CAD.

 

as for now, they must have something better or at least so much better feature than just "capability"

[SuperPug]

For video editing you dont really need workstation cards...

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

I think the main benefits are having 10 bit colour support + a better binned chip AFAIK

10-bit color? aren´t we all running 32-bit?

[han_han08]

some applications allow hardware acceleration, cuda for nvidia and opencl for amd.

if so, using those 2000+ cores will work to your advantage...

 

i for one doesn't see the need for a xeon processor, but professionals will opt for the ECC function that comes with it to save time on those numbers crunched

[Prastupok]

10-bit color? aren´t we all running 32-bit?

 

Nope. Your screen, unless it's professional grade, is 8 bit color.

 

some applications allow hardware acceleration, cuda for nvidia and opencl for amd.

if so, using those 2000+ cores will work to your advantage...

 

i for one doesn't see the need for a xeon processor, but professionals will opt for the ECC function that comes with it to save time on those numbers crunched

 

There are a lot of reasons to go with Xeons, trust me.

[han_han08]

Nope. Your screen, unless it's professional grade, is 8 bit color.

 

 

There are a lot of reasons to go with Xeons, trust me.

 

and I am still trying to dig deeper on that..i just couldn't justify the need for multiple xeons per user in the office with quadros..but yeah, there's still some that uses GTX 760 for adobe after effects 

 

*looks at ur sig* and man, u have those monsters as well!

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

So how is the 32-bit that we all know of, connected to the 8 and 10-bit you guys are talking about?? Why are there two?? whaaaaaaat?? :-p
And also im pretty sure LMG uses 1 Quadro and a 780 or 780 ti for horsepower or something like that.

Linus did a video on this. So it had both i think.

[Prastupok]

So how is the 32-bit that we all know of, connected to the 8 and 10-bit you guys are talking about?? Why are there two?? whaaaaaaat?? :-p

And also im pretty sure LMG uses 1 Quadro and a 780 or 780 ti for horsepower or something like that.

Linus did a video on this. So it had both i think.

 

Adobe had a good blog explaining how that works.

http://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2010/06/understanding_color_processing.html

 

But most panels are either 8 bit or, if you have a professional monitor, (NEC MultiSync, Asus ProArt, etc) you will have a 10 bit panel, but you can only take advantage of that 10 bit panel with a 10 bit output, that only Quadros and Firepros have.