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Sky, FirePro, Tesla, Quadro ETC.

Edgar R. Zakarian
By Edgar R. Zakarian
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Hi Guys,

 

I'd really love to get some sort of an overview of the different types of Graphics Cards there are out there,

and what they're specifically designed to be used for.

 

I just found out that the Radeon Sky is for streaming. The sky900 can support SIX 720p 30 fps video streams at once.

So what is the TESLA used for? What about the others? What others are there?

 

How can I suggest @LinusTech Linus to make a tech-quickie video about this?

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Tesla cards are used for special purposes, like supercomputers.

Nvidia Quadro and AMD FirePro cards are for workstations that use shit like AutoCAD or Adobe Premier or Autodesk 3ds Max. They have more memory and generally better performance and features optimized for those kinds of workloads and trades off gaming performance for it.

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Huh never heard of those, pretty cool, It would make for an interesting Tech Quickie, if there's the material for it, not sure how many other types there are, he already did one on Quadros. 

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Techquickie already has a video on Quadros that applies to FirePros in the same way.  I don't think he's done anything on the Tesla or Sky though.  Quadro is to GeForce what Xeon is to i7.

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We have fire pro's here at my college for the autodesk computers. A faster than my desktop for rendering the 3d objects.

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We have fire pro's here at my college for the autodesk computers. A lot faster than my desktop for rendering the 3d objects.

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Would be very interesting to see a techquickie on this! @Slick

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I have access to three of the four :P I have to admit that I have never heard of a Radeon Sky before though.

 

My workstation has a Quadro K4000 in it. A FirePro is just the AMD equivalent of the Quadro. These are used primarily for CAD modeling and setting up CFD and FEA programs to be run on  the Teslas.

 

We have a compute server which has a (pair?) of Teslas, although I don't know the specific model. These are used to actually perform the computations needed for the CFD and FEA analysis which would take my workstation considerably longer to complete. 

 

My personal PC has a consumer G-Force card in it which is primarily for gaming. 

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Fun fact about Firepros (not sure about quadro) you can flash their bios, and get a 290X...

Also goes other way, you can flash a 290X (pref 8GB ver.) and get a 8GB version Firepro W9100... downside is you need to mod the W9100 bios to accomodate less RAM of possibly a different manufacturer.....

 

But yeah, you can do it this way to get cheap firepros...

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What's CFD?

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I have access to three of the four :P I have to admit that I have never heard of a Radeon Sky before though.

 

My workstation has a Quadro K4000 in it. A FirePro is just the AMD equivalent of the Quadro. These are used primarily for CAD modeling and setting up CFD and FEA programs to be run on  the Teslas.

 

We have a compute server which has a (pair?) of Teslas, although I don't know the specific model. These are used to actually perform the computations needed for the CFD and FEA analysis which would take my workstation considerably longer to complete. 

 

My personal PC has a consumer G-Force card in it which is primarily for gaming. 

What's CFD?

 

Fun fact about Firepros (not sure about quadro) you can flash their bios, and get a 290X...

Also goes other way, you can flash a 290X (pref 8GB ver.) and get a 8GB version Firepro W9100... downside is you need to mod the W9100 bios to accomodate less RAM of possibly a different manufacturer.....

 

But yeah, you can do it this way to get cheap firepros...

You probably could do this to 390X as well then? They do have 8GB.

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Quadro is to GeForce what Xeon is to i7.

no. the xeon e3-1231 v3 is a great deal because its an i7 without overclocking at a better price (you are giving up iGPU), the xeons are just as expensive as the i7s with the same features, but the xeon line also includes chips with 10,12,14,16 and 18 core chips, that's why they look so expensive

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Fun fact about Firepros (not sure about quadro) you can flash their bios, and get a 290X...

Also goes other way, you can flash a 290X (pref 8GB ver.) and get a 8GB version Firepro W9100... downside is you need to mod the W9100 bios to accomodate less RAM of possibly a different manufacturer.....

 

But yeah, you can do it this way to get cheap firepros...

there are people that did some stuff on the pcb of the 690 and made it report back as 1 680 and 1 K5000

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there are people that did some stuff on the pcb of the 690 and made it report back as 1 680 and 1 K5000

yeah, i have heard rumors of the Quadros not being totally the same chip...

they prolly had to solder some jumpers/connection points on the card....

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What's CFD?

Computational Fluid Dynamics.  Modeling how things flow

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yeah, i have heard rumors of the Quadros not being totally the same chip...

they prolly had to solder some jumpers/connection points on the card....

 

They do actually use the same GPU dies, but NVIDIA has started making a slight connection change on Quadro cards for identification purposes rather than relying on software which can be overwritten or bypassed. In the past you could flash the firmware on a card to turn it into a Quadro, but with for example a GTX 780 Ti, you had to solder a missing 18,000 Ohm resistor onto a certain part of the PCB, and it would be recognized as a Quadro K6000. Though you would still only have a quarter of the memory and no ECC, but still. You get the fancy drivers :D

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They do actually use the same GPU dies, but NVIDIA has started making a slight connection change on Quadro cards for identification purposes rather than relying on software which can be overwritten or bypassed. In the past you could flash the firmware on a card to turn it into a Quadro, but with for example a GTX 780 Ti, you had to solder a missing 18,000 Ohm resistor onto a certain part of the PCB, and it would be recognized as a Quadro K6000. Though you would still only have a quarter of the memory and no ECC, but still. You get the fancy drivers :D

and again, Nvidia had to be asshats, just because...

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