Nvidia Quadro Vs GeForce

[SamuelBreslin]

Budget (including currency): for total build:1000 dollars(US) , for graphics card 300

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I am a student engineer and will mostly be using my new PC for, CAD as well as programming(with some small to medium sized tensor flow models)

 

This is my first post so I apologize if i am doing any thing wrong, I was originally going to go with an Nvidia Quadro K4000 for about 240$ dollars as I understand they are approved for use in solid works, however a friend has offered me a his used GTX 1080 FE for 250$ and I Know this is a great deal with the 1080 having almost 3 times the number of raw CUDA cores but I am unsure as to what to do. I understand that in solid works similar priced Quadro cards are generally better than their GeForce counter parts but I believe that in the open marked the 1080 is much more expensive. Thank you for any advice.

 

[Levent]

I would go for 1080. Its much newer, significantly more powerful and will perform better in everything you throw at it.

[curiousmind34]

def the 1080. If you were working on something so intensive it would need quadro drivers to run well, the qaudro you chose wouldn’t be enough anyway.

even if the 1080 is optimized not as good, it’s just faster