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jaslion
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So My quadro k6000 is sadly dead dead and I currently cannot afford a new quadro of the same performance class so I've been looking for a stopgap solution in the meantime.

 

I ended up finding a the Gigabyte Vega 56 gaminc oc for 299€ and a Asrock Phantom D gaming rx 580 8G for 181€.

 

Both come with 3 games which is nice as I can give those to my friends then since I rarely even play games anymore so that is pretty meaningless to me. The cheapest nvidia solution is a 220€ 1060 3g which is a lot worse and the cheapest 1070 is 374€ so also quite a bit more it seems.

 

Now is it worth getting the vega 56 over the 580 or not?

 

What I use is autodesk 3ds max and maya, After effects, Photoshop, Blender, Zbrush and substance painter as my main programs that really benefited from having a good gpu. Currently using a gtx 660ti and it's been a pretty bad experience overall and I really need my second computer up and running soon so any advice would be welcome as all the data I've found is rather conflicting with eachother.

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VEGA64 is sometimes on Sale for like under 400€
Recently I've seen the ASUS 64 for like 360€...

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1 minute ago, Stefan Payne said:

VEGA64 is sometimes on Sale for like under 400€
Recently I've seen the ASUS 64 for like 360€...

Should've specified 300€ is the absolute max I can spend.

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23 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Now is it worth getting the vega 56 over the 580 or not?

I can only speak for gaming and RX480/8GiB (Powercolor Red Devil) to VEGA 64 (Sapphire Nitro+) and the difference is somewhere in the +50% range.

Very noticable.

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so... what's the best quadro and radeon pro you can afford? Vega certainly isn't bad in workstation use (better than Geforce anyway), but many things are still workstation cards biased heavily.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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44 minutes ago, jaslion said:

So My quadro k6000 is sadly dead dead and I currently cannot afford a new quadro of the same performance class so I've been looking for a stopgap solution in the meantime.

 

I ended up finding a the Gigabyte Vega 56 gaminc oc for 299€ and a Asrock Phantom D gaming rx 580 8G for 181€.

 

Both come with 3 games which is nice as I can give those to my friends then since I rarely even play games anymore so that is pretty meaningless to me. The cheapest nvidia solution is a 220€ 1060 3g which is a lot worse and the cheapest 1070 is 374€ so also quite a bit more it seems.

 

Now is it worth getting the vega 56 over the 580 or not?

 

What I use is autodesk 3ds max and maya, After effects, Photoshop, Blender, Zbrush and substance painter as my main programs that really benefited from having a good gpu. Currently using a gtx 660ti and it's been a pretty bad experience overall and I really need my second computer up and running soon so any advice would be welcome as all the data I've found is rather conflicting with eachother.

Huge improvement and more VRAM for your OpenGL needs.

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56 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

so... what's the best quadro and radeon pro you can afford? Vega certainly isn't bad in workstation use (better than Geforce anyway), but many things are still workstation cards biased heavily.

The best I could find are:

 

FirePro s10000

Quadro p1000

Quadro k5000

 

As far as I can see they are all a bit worse than a vega 56

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4 minutes ago, jaslion said:

The best I could find are:

 

FirePro s10000

Quadro p1000

Quadro k5000

 

As far as I can see they are all a bit worse than a vega 56

oh then vega should be slightly worse to much better comparing to these old power hungry and new but weak cards.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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