Quadro RTX 4000

[CarolinaNomad]

Newegg has a PNY Quadro RTX 4000 for $1,170 cad.  Is that a good price or inflated?

[Grabhanem]

1 minute ago, CarolinaNomad said:

Newegg has a PNY Quadro RTX 4000 for $1,170 cad.  Is that a good price or inflated?

That seems like a reasonable price. Keep in mind, though, that Quadros are only worth it if you have a workload that specifically benefits from them -- CAD for example.

[thermalgoop]

It's MSRP US$900 so that sounds right? 
Won't game for crap, though. nVidia doesn't give you Game-Ready GeForce drivers for Quadro cards.

Doing a lot of Premiere or AE work? Davinci Resolve? Might do ya alright, then. 

[Action_Johnson]

As far as I know, the only reason to get a Quadro is because the drivers meet a certain legal certification, what you need that for, I don't know. 

[Grabhanem]

4 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

As far as I know, the only reason to get a Quadro is because the drivers meet a certain legal certification, what you need that for, I don't know. 

The drivers are also legitimately better for some professional workloads. A Quadro P1000 (effectively a GTX 1050 or 1050ti approximately) can outmatch a 1080ti in Solidworks, for example.

 

 

[CarolinaNomad]

My main focus for the desktop is for Professional Cad Software, Autocad, Archicad and Sketchup.  Archicad can create 3D renderings and Motion Walk thru of Architectural Drawings.  Per Archicad, Nvidia and AMD test and verify these video cards for their software.   Maybe I should get a RTX 5000 to work and game.

[Action_Johnson]

31 minutes ago, Grabhanem said:

The drivers are also legitimately better for some professional workloads. A Quadro P1000 (effectively a GTX 1050 or 1050ti approximately) can outmatch a 1080ti in Solidworks, for example.

 

 

What? That makes no sense that a 1050ti would be better at compute than a 1080ti if the hardware is near identical 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Action_Johnson said:

What? That makes no sense that a 1050ti would be better at compute than a 1080ti if the hardware is near identical 

They lock a good amount of features out of geoforce cards, like 10bit open gl, some pro app features, have different drive versions, supported drives, unlimited nvenc encodes, some 3d display types, some multimonitor configs and other features. If your program users those features, the quadros can be much faster than the geoforce cards with the same hardware.

[CarolinaNomad]

@Electronics Wizardy  So if I knew how to unlock the features of the geoforce cards, I could use geoforce card? lol 

 

  What's your opinion of having two GPU cards, one workstation in the slot 0 and the gaming card in slot 1.  Or will it even matter with the new cards coming Jan 12th.  For instance, should I get the A6000 ampere and not worry about two different GPU Cards.

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, CarolinaNomad said:

@Electronics Wizardy  So if I knew how to unlock the features of the geoforce cards, I could use geoforce card? lol 

 

  What's your opinion of having two GPU cards, one workstation in the slot 0 and the gaming card in slot 1.  Or will it even matter with the new cards coming Jan 12th.  For instance, should I get the A6000 ampere and not worry about two different GPU Cards.

Id check how the performance is the geoforce cards, might as well just run geoforce cards if the performance is fine for your use.