Quadro vs Gtx 700 series for CAD

[Battlebirtie]

Hello guys! The other day my dad asked me to build him a new CAD machine for his office, so I'm doing the normal thing of starting by creating a spec and pricing it all up :)

However I have never really used "professional GPU's" and whilst looking through the QUADRO series I found that they had awful specifications on them - literally they're close to the 500 series in terms of specs. But, I know they have better drivers and due to that they gain a lot whilst working in CAD. As such would I be better putting a Gtx 770 as shown here- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-219-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750 or an Nvidia quadro 2000D as shown here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-031-PN&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2410. Quick note , this is for autocad 2013 as from what I have found on their website they like dealing with Hp etc so they only list compatible options inside specific pc's. Other specs I'm going for are 8gb of ddr3 1600mhz ram

Intel 4670k, 4 logical cores with hyperthreading

And an asus z87m motherboard.

So TLDR:

Quadro 2000d vs gtx 770 for autocad:2013

Will a gtx 770 run and if so will it have the drivers to compete with the lesser hardware? 

 

So in conclusion any help or input is appreciated, not in some rush here however sooner is better. 

Have a nice day, Conor

 

 

[ERSCreeper]

If its CAD only then Quadro all the way. But depending on what he is doing GTX could be fine.

[Battlebirtie]

Yeah only CAD, just worried about it having 1gb of gddr5 and way less cuda cores... Oh well I suppose there's a market of less for more :P

[Godlygamer23]

Yeah only CAD, just worried about it having 1gb of gddr5 and way less cuda cores... Oh well I suppose there's a market of less for more :P

The drivers are more optimized for production, than gaming. It should work well.

[Battlebirtie]

The drivers are more optimized for production, than gaming. It should work well.

Well, that's good and it means I have one option solved however will it outperform the high end hardware of a gtx 770 - he's using archicad or that's what he called it :') but thanks for confirming that contender is an option :) - Conor

[Godlygamer23]

Well, that's good and it means I have one option solved however will it outperform the high end hardware of a gtx 770.

I can't answer that personally, but it should be a contender.

[Godlygamer23]

I'm gonna see if I can get some numbers for you real quick.

[Godlygamer23]

Comparison chart for you.

http://www.cgarchitect.com/content/posts/legacy/nvidia2000/rankq2000.jpg

[msikora]

Is your dad's work not paying for this? I would go k4000 for a workstation

[Maverik5124]

You should check if the CAD program needs more than 1gb vram when working with large models. I would expect it to but I honestly don't know anything about this kind of stuff

[Godlygamer23]

You should check if the CAD program needs more than 1gb vram when working with large models. I would expect it to but I honestly don't know anything about this kind of stuff

I'm not too into these things either. Just working with what's on the top of my head, and what information I can gather from the interwebs.

[Battlebirtie]

Well, he is on a budget, just speced one up using a GTX 670 and a 4670k with 8gb of ram and a nice little noctua cooler, as said its all on a tight budget of 800 pounds if asked ill list the entire spec :)