Workstation Graphics Card

[xMisterJayx]

Hey all, I'm in the market to find a good purely workstation graphics card for editing videos and photos. Would that mean getting a Titan/Titan Black or would I have to dip into the Quadro series for a Quadro 6000?

[PillowSmoke]

Hey all, I'm in the market to find a good purely workstation graphics card for editing videos and photos. Would that mean getting a Titan/Titan Black or would I have to dip into the Quadro series for a Quadro 6000?

 

Depends, what kind of programs are you going to be using?

[SAV1OUR]

3d editing rendering 

nvidia quadro 

amd fire pro 

 

cuda 

nvidia 780 780ti titan titan black 

amd null (nvidia cards are better for cuda) 

[Jobbe03]

Depends on how you're going to render them. A Quadro 6000 is waaaay high end. Go with a Titan black.

[Freaky_spider]

Quadro has optimized drivers that dont do well in games but are really good for rendering

 

so if you want it to be decent/good at rendering and be able to play / get 120 FPS in most games at ultra i'd go with a titan black or a 780ti

 

or if you want the best rendering but not really the best gaming experience (it'll still do the job but not as good as a 780ti)

[Paralectic]

Go with a Titan (black), so you can also do some gaming if you ever want to do that and it's cheaper.

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3d editing rendering 

nvidia quadro 

amd fire pro 

 

cuda 

nvidia 780 780ti titan titan black 

amd null (nvidia cards are better for cuda) 

It isnt that Nvidia cards are 'better' for CUDA. Its that CUDA doesnt exist on ATI cards.

[SAV1OUR]

It isnt that Nvidia cards are 'better' for CUDA. Its that CUDA doesnt exist on ATI cards.

i have seen people use amd cards in full editing pc guess they just had it for video playing or something 

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

i have seen people use amd cards in full editing pc guess they just had it for video playing or something 

ATI cards use a open standard called OpenCL. Its function is similar to CUDA.

 

They could be using something that makes use of OpenCL.

[xMisterJayx]

Quadro has optimized drivers that dont do well in games but are really good for rendering

 

so if you want it to be decent/good at rendering and be able to play / get 120 FPS in most games at ultra i'd go with a titan black or a 780ti

 

or if you want the best rendering but not really the best gaming experience (it'll still do the job but not as good as a 780ti)

 

No no no the rig will just be used for editing. no gaming on it at all.

[xMisterJayx]

Go with a Titan (black), so you can also do some gaming if you ever want to do that and it's cheaper.

 

Alright It probably won't be for gaming just editing gaming videos.

[xMisterJayx]

Depends, what kind of programs are you going to be using?

 

Photoshop, video editing software (sorry I used a mac for gaming and video editing so I have no clue of any Windows editing software), but I will be using D3DGear to record the videos, etc.

[GeathX]

Alright It probably won't be for gaming just editing gaming videos.

 

 

Don't know how long I've researched this my self. The best thing you could probably do is search for benchmarks using your program of choice, or something very close to it, then look at the scores with workstation cards vs regular ones.

 

I went around in circles so many times with programs used and AMD vs Nvidia to where the only real advantages I saw is when you get the real high end expensive workstation cards. The main aspect that I saw though wasn't so much about performance but the reliability of the cards. They go through many more certification steps and are rated for long work loads at 100%.

 

My advice for actual card selection would be a 760, that way any kind of GPU processing is covered (CUDA and OpenCL to a lesser extent). Chances are it will be fine as a lot of work is still handed by the CPU for video and image editing.

[xMisterJayx]

Don't know how long I've researched this my self. The best thing you could probably do is search for benchmarks using your program of choice, or something very close to it, then look at the scores with workstation cards vs regular ones.

 

I went around in circles so many times with programs used and AMD vs Nvidia to where the only real advantages I saw is when you get the real high end expensive workstation cards. The main aspect that I saw though wasn't so much about performance but the reliability of the cards. They go through many more certification steps and are rated for long work loads at 100%.

 

My advice for actual card selection would be a 760, that way any kind of GPU processing is covered (CUDA and OpenCL to a lesser extent). Chances are it will be fine as a lot of work is still handed by the CPU for video and image editing.

 

Alright. I will research the 2 cards against each other and see what I would be better off using. Thanks for the tips man.