Bottleneck?

[Adrien35]

Hi guys !

I would like to see if my rig could be more efficient, in case of bottlenecks.

First of all, I got a i9900K, 32 Ram 3200, and I recieved a Quadro 4000 because I planned on using that computer for CAD, basic machine learning, computations... But I'd like to be able to do gaming as well and apparently that first GPU is not optimised for that. I thought about buying a 1660 Super, as I did not want to spend really much money on the second GPU. Do you think it is fair or should I invest more money to avoid a tough bottleneck ? Advices?

Thank you very  much in advance  !

[Fasauceome]

it depends strongly on the software you're using, what usages are you seeing right now?

[Adrien35]

Thanks for the answer, I plan on using Matlab, Python, C++, Pytorch, Tensorflow, for the programming part and otherwise for gaming, I'd like to play the trending games easily.

[Cedar]

A quadro RTX 4000 performs way better than a 1660 super in games. I'd say keep your current gpu since the quadro RTX 4000 performs similarly to a 1070 Ti which is a more than a decent card. If you really want the best performance you could just go to a 2080 Ti, I don't recommend it because of the price, but their wouldn't be any bottlenecks.

[Adrien35]

1 minute ago, Cedar said:

A quadro RTX 4000 performs way better than a 1660 super in games. I'd say keep your current gpu since the quadro RTX 4000 performs similarly to a 1070 Ti which is a more than a decent card. If you really want the best performance you could just go to a 2080 Ti, I don't recommend it because of the price, but their wouldn't be any bottlenecks.

Thank you for the explanation and the advice ! I guess staying with the quadro is fair

[Adrien35]

10 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

it depends strongly on the software you're using, what usages are you seeing right now?

Thanks for the answer, I plan on using Matlab, Python, C++, Pytorch, Tensorflow, for the programming part and otherwise for gaming, I'd like to play the trending games easily.

[Cedar]

2 minutes ago, Adrien35 said:

Thank you for the explanation and the advice ! I guess staying with the quadro is fair

yea, especially if you are doing mostly machine learning just stick with the quadro.

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Adrien35 said:

Thanks for the answer, I plan on using Matlab, Python, C++, Pytorch, Tensorflow, for the programming part and otherwise for gaming, I'd like to play the trending games easily.

Is this professional or hobby?

[Adrien35]

2 minutes ago, Cedar said:

yea, especially if you are doing mostly machine learning just stick with the quadro.

Okay ! Thanks !

[Adrien35]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

Is this professional or hobby?

It is for a PhD and gaming for hobby 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, Adrien35 said:

It is for a PhD and gaming for hobby 

I'd say look into getting an RTX card down the line, to leverage the tensor cores. 

[Adrien35]

6 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

I'd say look into getting an RTX card down the line, to leverage the tensor cores. 

Ok I see, great, thanks ! So keeping the quadro RTX 4000 ?

[Cedar]

7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

I'd say look into getting an RTX card down the line, to leverage the tensor cores. 

uh he already has a RTX

[Adrien35]

2 minutes ago, Cedar said:

uh he already has a RTX

Yep the quadro rtx 4000

[Fasauceome]

12 minutes ago, Cedar said:

uh he already has a RTX

An additional rtx card, instead of the originally proposed 1660 super

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Ok I see, great, thanks ! So keeping the quadro RTX 4000 ?

Yep, seems best for your workflow

Edited December 29, 2019 by Fasauceome

[Adrien35]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

An additional rtx card, instead of the originally proposed 1660 super

Ohh alright I see, would u suggest a model ?

[Adrien35]

4 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

An additional rtx card, instead of the originally proposed 1660 super

Yep, seems best for your workflow

Ok, nice !

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Adrien35 said:

Ohh alright I see, would u suggest a model ?

Any of the affordable models will do, Zotac and EVGA have a lot of budget 2060 and 2060 super offerings. assuming 1080p high or 1440p medium is what you're after, it does a good job.

[Adrien35]

3 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Any of the affordable models will do, Zotac and EVGA have a lot of budget 2060 and 2060 super offerings. assuming 1080p high or 1440p medium is what you're after, it does a good job.

Nice, great I see, thanks ! Yes exactly !

[Cedar]

32 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Any of the affordable models will do, Zotac and EVGA have a lot of budget 2060 and 2060 super offerings. assuming 1080p high or 1440p medium is what you're after, it does a good job.

the 2060 super wouldn't be much of a upgrade (at most a 4% increase in performance) it really wouldn't be worth the cost of buying a whole new graphics card.

[Adrien35]

9 minutes ago, Cedar said:

the 2060 super wouldn't be much of a upgrade (at most a 4% increase in performance) it really wouldn't be worth the cost of buying a whole new graphics card.

Oh you think ?

So in that case, taking a better one such as 2080 or nothing is wiser ?

[Fasauceome]

8 hours ago, Cedar said:

the 2060 super wouldn't be much of a upgrade (at most a 4% increase in performance) it really wouldn't be worth the cost of buying a whole new graphics card.

Well, considering that the Quadro has quite a lot of cuda cores but a bad cooler and different drivers, I suggested the upgrade down the line just in case. However if the gaming performance is actually quite good off the bat, OP may see no need to upgrade at all (barring higher performance target)