Quadro, Tesla, Geforce.

[thegamezbeplayed]

Everywhere I look I get mixed results for certain questions I have regarding these 3 graphic cards.

Can I run a geforce and a Quadro /Tesla in the same machine? With out any driver and performance issues.

What is the difference between Quadro and Tesla!!! I know they are workstation cards.

[Ziommm]

Quadro is for profesionnal graphics purpose (3D design, CAD, etc...)

Tesla is what we call a coprocessor, optimized for double precision floating point computing. They're not even graphics cards actually, they don't have any video output.

And I don't know if you can run a Geforce and a Quadro/Tesla in the same rig without any issue, But I would suggest to use them in separate computers anyway. I mean if you have a use for a worksation card, it's most likely for a workstation, which means professionnal purposes, which means you're not supposed to play games with it ^^.

[thegamezbeplayed]

I am a game developer and a hardcore gamer, my machine must be able to play games as well as make them! lol So tesla isnt for 3d design?

[R4STABAN]

Tesla is for epic number crunching in research machines etcetc. Quadro is the line aimed at 3d design.

I'm not clued up with the differences between quadro and geforce or whether you can run them simultaneously.. you'd need geforce and quadro drivers I think..

[thegamezbeplayed]

Okay so then this leaves me with quadro and geforce. Maybe somebody out there has both and can shed some light? Or someone knows a good place with information and could link it?

[Cyanotical]

what are you trying to do first of all, you can run a geforce and quadro in the same rig, and it is possible to game on the geforce and render on the quadro, but i doubt its as simple as plug-n-play

[Salmiakbal]

Are you paying for the machine yourself? I'd go for a GeForce, just because the Quadro is way too expensive for the little gain in performance it gives IMHO.

Tesla are cards solely for computing, you won't need that.

[Cyanotical]

Are you paying for the machine yourself? I'd go for a GeForce' date=' just because the Quadro is way too expensive for the little gain in performance it gives IMHO. Tesla are cards solely for computing, you won't need that.[/quote']

performance difference in what area? for professional use, which is what a quadro is intended for, the difference is night and day, a slightly outdated low-mid range quadro will still beat the crap out of 680/690 for 3d modeling, CAD, special effects etc

the geforce obviously will play games better

[Salmiakbal]

Are you paying for the machine yourself? I'd go for a GeForce' date=' just because the Quadro is way too expensive for the little gain in performance it gives IMHO. Tesla are cards solely for computing, you won't need that.[/quote'] performance difference in what area? for professional use, which is what a quadro is intended for, the difference is night and day, a slightly outdated low-mid range quadro will still beat the crap out of 680/690 for 3d modeling, CAD, special effects etc the geforce obviously will play games better

I find GeForce still viable for CAD, though you are right Quadro's will give a (obviously) better performance. For me though it isn't worth the pricetag though :p

[Cyanotical]

I find GeForce still viable for CAD' date=' though you are right Quadro's will give a (obviously) better performance. For me though it isn't worth the pricetag though :p[/quote']

well when we built my brother's workstation, we used a firepro v7900, it's hard to beat that card at it's pricepoint, i then added 2 gtx-590s for cuda, which not only makes it a retardedly good workstation, but since i gave him my 590s, it gave me an excuse to upgrade to 690s:D

[christoi]

For a game dev, I can't think of anything that would benefit from a Quadro outside of designing the stuff.

Quadro's use the same GPU's as the regular GeForce cards, just that they come with extra features such at 10-bit out, along with better drivers which results in better performance. For 3D and CAD work the specialized drivers and such offer notably better performance due to the better optimizations, however I don't think that would have much of an influence in programming and developing a game.

[Cyanotical]

well, if you are making a single workstation for game developement, you could use all three cards

the Quadro will give you outstanding performance for viewport work, such as 3d model creation, work creation, and texture creation

the Telsa will give you pure compute power for rendering pre-rendered scenes, such as intros, or the in game movie clips that Blizzard is famous for, it basically turns a two week cpu job into a 2 hour job

the Geforce can also be used for compute, but for the most part you would use it for testing the game, there is a couple ways of forcing the game to use the geforce card, i suspect it's as simple as plugging a monitor into the card, and launching the game on that screen, but i know that a VT-d solution will work, using a VM or hypervisor type virtualization is probably the best anyway

[thegamezbeplayed]

through nvidia control panel you can pick which gpu. I plan to be making whole games independently, as well as for work when i graduate. I am an amazing programmer but my passion is art. I will most likely be using 3dsmax, maya, and the game engines.. (may just make my own).

[thegamezbeplayed]

I find GeForce still viable for CAD' date=' though you are right Quadro's will give a (obviously) better performance. For me though it isn't worth the pricetag though :p[/quote']

well when we built my brother's workstation, we used a firepro v7900, it's hard to beat that card at it's pricepoint, i then added 2 gtx-590s for cuda, which not only makes it a retardedly good workstation, but since i gave him my 590s, it gave me an excuse to upgrade to 690s:D

those 3 cards run perfectly fine?

[Cyanotical]

well, i wish you the best of luck, hope some of this information helps

[thegamezbeplayed]

well we have proof that firepro and geforce run together fine. and i now know what tesla is for!

[GoodBytes]

Use Quadro if you are rendeirng stuff on your computer (you are a 3D artist and doing a cut scene in a game), or working heavily with 3D models. The GPU is deisgned to be under heavy for extra long period of time, 24/7 if I am not mistaken.

GeForce us a Quadro is not related to gaming feature cut out, and does not use ECC memory. Also it's circuit and components is less fancy and lower grade to reduce the price of the already expensive card. You can perfectly develop and do 3D modeling with a GeForce. You'll get greater performance in 3D modeling with a Quadro. If you are just developing the game, and simply implement 3D models, and run the game to see how it looks, you just need a GeForce.

GeForce drivers are optimized for gaming

Quadro drivers are optimized for CAD, CUDA, 3d modeling software and such.

Quadro graphic card will work with GeForce drivers, but you'll loose on all the features of the Quadro.. so you are turning a Quadro into a GeForce.

[thegamezbeplayed]

Use Quadro if you are rendeirng stuff on your computer (you are a 3D artist and doing a cut scene in a game), or working heavily with 3D models. The GPU is deisgned to be under heavy for extra long period of time, 24/7 if I am not mistaken.

GeForce us a Quadro is not related to gaming feature cut out, and does not use ECC memory. Also it's circuit and components is less fancy and lower grade to reduce the price of the already expensive card. You can perfectly develop and do 3D modeling with a GeForce. You'll get greater performance in 3D modeling with a Quadro. If you are just developing the game, and simply implement 3D models, and run the game to see how it looks, you just need a GeForce.

GeForce drivers are optimized for gaming

Quadro drivers are optimized for CAD, CUDA, 3d modeling software and such.

Quadro graphic card will work with GeForce drivers, but you'll loose on all the features of the Quadro.. so you are turning a Quadro into a GeForce.

you cant have both drivers?

[GoodBytes]

No you can't.

Even if you could, which one to use? The graphic card certainly doesn't know that you are playing a game or running a CAD software.

Also, you can't merge them either. CAD and 3d modelling requires the best image output possible, not speed. In games you dont' notice the difference as you are always moving, not looking at a object in 3D space for hours on end, drawing on it, or modifying it. As for CUDA you need high precision. Who cares if you have 1 pixel showing the wrong color on 1 frame. Impossible to notice.. in fact you never did since day 1. But when doing simulations or calculations you this error can't show you completely false answer, like a broken calculator. Precision and error correction takes more time to process.

[thegamezbeplayed]

No you can't.

Even if you could, which one to use? The graphic card certainly doesn't know that you are playing a game or running a CAD software.

Also, you can't merge them either. CAD and 3d modelling requires the best image output possible, not speed. In games you dont' notice the difference as you are always moving, not looking at a object in 3D space for hours on end, drawing on it, or modifying it. As for CUDA you need high precision. Who cares if you have 1 pixel showing the wrong color on 1 frame. Impossible to notice.. in fact you never did since day 1. But when doing simulations or calculations you this error can't show you completely false answer, like a broken calculator. Precision and error correction takes more time to process.

you can pick the gpu that a game uses in nvidia control panel. And i heard that alot of applications will make use of every gpu you have.

[GoodBytes]

You are confusing of having the multiple graphic cards. You were saying of install the Quadro and GeForce drivers both together on a Quadro card.

[TechFan@ic]

You can run a quadro card in a machine and have any other regular graphics card installed without any problems, even an AMD Radeon would work.

You can even game on your HD 7870 or gtx 660 ti for example, while your quadro is decoding a video or processing what ever task you assigned to it.

[thegamezbeplayed]

You can run a quadro card in a machine and have any other regular graphics card installed without any problems, even an AMD Radeon would work.

You can even game on your HD 7870 or gtx 660 ti for example, while your quadro is decoding a video or processing what ever task you assigned to it.

what is your proof cuz there are plenty of other threads that say its either extremely difficult to set up, or not possible.

[thegamezbeplayed]

You are confusing of having the multiple graphic cards. You were saying of install the Quadro and GeForce drivers both together on a Quadro card.

I want 2 physical gpu's in my system, each running there own respective drivers.