WHO THE F**K WOULD NEED THIS

[Death_and_famine]

Who in the world needs a Quadro rtx 8000? It's not even that much better than a 2080ti. Please tell me why someone would drop 5.5k on a slightly better GPU instead of 1500 (Worst case) on a  GPU that is practically the same thing?

Edit: So apparently it has 48Gigs of VRAM. It is geared towards people who use 3d modeling and that jazz.

[r2724r16]

2 minutes ago, Death_and_famine said:

Please tell me why someone would drop 5.5k on a slightly better GPU instead of 1500 (Worst case) on a  GPU that is practically the same thing?

Because for businesses, spending 5.5K on a graphics card that generate significantly more profit than the initial cost is not an issue.

[Guest]

It's strange that people cannot conceive of a use for something just because they themselves cannot use it.

There are billions of people in this world. Some of them need 48GB of VRAM and other non-gaming Quadro functions.

[Roswell]

Oh boy...

 

They cost more because of the validation process, error correcting memory, unlocked compute features, support, etc.

[Roswell]

5 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

Because for businesses, spending 5.5K on a graphics card that generate significantly more profit than the initial cost is not an issue.

That's not really why they cost more though.

[Death_and_famine]

Just now, Den-Fi said:

Some of them need 48GB of VRAM

THEY HAVE WHAT NOW!? 48! I did not know that. I guess it's just ultra future proof

[Fasauceome]

Cuda cores ain't everything.

 

Someone buying a Quadro for gaming is dumb, but any professional can make proper use of it

[Death_and_famine]

1 minute ago, Vitamanic said:

Oh boy...

 

They cost more because of the validation process, error correcting memory, unlocked compute features, support, etc.

I was not aware it supports ECC. doesn't that have to do with the motherboard?(I could be wrong)

[dizmo]

You know it's not for games, right?

[r2724r16]

4 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:

That's not really why they cost more though.

OP wasn't asking why they cost more. OP was asking why anyone would buy them if they're so expensive.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Death_and_famine said:

doesn't that have to do with the motherboard?(I could be wrong)

Sort of. For DIMM and SODIMM RAM sticks, you need a CPU and mainboard that support ECC memory in order to use it as ECC memory.

 

 

But for GPUs, they use ECC for functions ran on the GPU. Things like rendering or large scale number crunching.

[Death_and_famine]

Just now, Drak3 said:

 

Thanks for clearing up my confusion. People can be pretty rough online when you don't know things

[Windows7ge]

Right off the top of my head NVIDIA doesn't allow their desktop series cards to be passed though to virtual machines (easily). Which is a massive part of big businesses. Also the ability to allocate portions of a hardware component to a VM (SR-IOV though that may just be AMD @TopHatProductions115) enabling multiple VMs to share a single GPU is not a supported feature of those desktop cards.

[imreloadin]

10 minutes ago, Caroline said:

CAD? professional video editors? complex 3D modelling? fuck, even guys who work with Photoshop, you know how much VRAM that thing eats?

Apparently not, hence the post

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Death_and_famine said:

Thanks for clearing up my confusion. People can be pretty rough online when you don't know things

It probably would have gone over better if your thread title was less sensationalized lol.

What prompted you to make this thread anyway? The post was just so... filled with misconception. Even reading the product page would have given you enough info to not have made it.

 

I ask out of genuine curiosity, not being sarcastic or anything.

[wasab]

15 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Cuda cores ain't everything.

 

Someone buying a Quadro for gaming is dumb, but any professional can make proper use of it

Professional gamers included?

[atxcyclist]

The industries that can use something of that level have no qualms about dropping that kind of cash on a graphics card. An hour of their machine time might be worth tens of thousands of dollars in revenue, so any efficiency gained is a massive benefit.

[Death_and_famine]

15 minutes ago, Den-Fi said:

It probably would have gone over better if your thread title was less sensationalized lol.

What prompted you to make this thread anyway?

In February im getting a settlement from a car crash in, and was thinking about building a high end PC (My first). While parting out I saw the quadro and its benchmark in games. Nothing about VRAM. Should of just googled it lol

[Guest]

22 minutes ago, Death_and_famine said:

In February im getting a settlement from a car crash in, and was thinking about building a high end PC (My first). While parting out I saw the quadro and its benchmark in games. Nothing about VRAM. Should of just googled it lol

Ah. Well at least you know where to come to make sure the build comes out nice.

Throwing money at parts doesn't always net something that works well lol.

[givingtnt]

@Death_and_famine I do.
It's tremendously powerful for rendering.

[aftcg]

OP:  Scientists working with deep learning, folks messing around with large designs that need realtime raytracing, guys that need something to power 16 UHD displays with 4 Q8000s and a Qsync II, CAD, DCC, CGI applications (all the movies we watch), real product support (like a human answers the phone), stability (as in, custom drivers that work because a human knows how to adjust them for the application), more real support, industry certificate standards, stability...  And, limited super science vilinary (Master Billy Quizboy has been known to use OTS devices periodically), and can be used for balancing the world's powers at VenTech.  

[SenKa]

WHY DO PEOPLE WITH ZERO FORUM MANORS ALWAYS YELL IN THEIR TITLES

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 hours ago, Death_and_famine said:

Who in the world needs a Quadro rtx 8000? It's not even that much better than a 2080ti. Please tell me why someone would drop 5.5k on a slightly better GPU instead of 1500 (Worst case) on a  GPU that is practically the same thing?

Edit: So apparently it has 48Gigs of VRAM. It is geared towards people who use 3d modeling and that jazz.

Quadros are built with reliability in mind, with drivers that work with certain applications that businesses use, and in most cases, has VRAM that contains error detection and correction. People who buy it also probably get much better support from NVIDIA than us plebs. But otherwise, it's the reliability that you pay for. These cards are designed to run hardcore tasks constantly for hours on end without fail or error. If you're running a business or doing research or whatever, downtime costs a lot more money than how much you can save buying something cheaper.

 

There was an anecdote I read where someone thought they could save money by buying a bunch of GeForce 780s in place of their Quadro equivalents. They still had Quadros, but within the year, most of the GeForce cards were having problems while the Quadros were still ticking. The amount of money lost due to the downtime basically negated the cost savings of using GeForce.

[D.U.F.F.]

-Censored-

[jones177]

6 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Quadros are built with reliability in mind, with drivers that work with certain applications that businesses use, and in most cases, has VRAM that contains error detection and correction. People who buy it also probably get much better support from NVIDIA than us plebs. But otherwise, it's the reliability that you pay for. These cards are designed to run hardcore tasks constantly for hours on end without fail or error. If you're running a business or doing research or whatever, downtime costs a lot more money than how much you can save buying something cheaper.

 

There was an anecdote I read where someone thought they could save money by buying a bunch of GeForce 780s in place of their Quadro equivalents. They still had Quadros, but within the year, most of the GeForce cards were having problems while the Quadros were still ticking. The amount of money lost due to the downtime basically negated the cost savings of using GeForce.

I used them for better anti aliasing. 

At the time I needed them gaming cards had only 16x anti aliasing. The Quadros had 32x.

I needed that for previews with 3D max when working on complex objects.

Fortunately 4000s have this feature so I never had to spend more than a gaming card.

 

If I was still in business I would pay up to $2500 for real time raytrace preview if the software I used supported it. Sixty percent of my post production work was fixing reflection errors with PhotoShop so it would be money well spent.