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My dad is thinking about building a workstation for home and he wants it to be better with graphics than the one he presently has.

He is running a single 7970 and he wants something with more power.  I was looking at some of the nvidia cards and dont know if it would be better to get a gtx 780 or a quadro card.

He uses it for solidworks and 3D simulations.

Or just wait to see what AMD does with the 9000 seires

Preferably nothing more than $800 US

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What does he do? 

'Workstation' is a darn broad term.

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What does he do? 

'Workstation' is a darn broad term.

He does Solidworks and 3D simulations and some Audodesk applications.

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Solidworks and 3D simulations, he said in the post :)

 

I would recommend Quadro here.  The GeForce cards are not very good at this sort of thing that utilizes double precision floating points.  In fact they are basically crippled by NVIDIA intentionally, so that you will buy Quadro cards xD

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He does Solidworks and 3D simulations and some Audodesk applications.

Wait for 9000 series. See how they fare and consider a Titan, a Quadro, or 9000 series card depending on how things go.

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Solidworks and 3D simulations, he said in the post :)

 

I would recommend Quadro here.  The GeForce cards are not very good at this sort of thing that utilizes double precision floating points.  In fact they are basically crippled by NVIDIA intentionally, so that you will buy Quadro cards xD

Dont suppose you know which one to get one of his older machines had a Quadro fx 3800 and he had some problems with lag.

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What about Titan as a prosumer workstation card?

The titan might be a little out of his price range.

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Have you looked at any FirePros?

 

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Have you looked at any FirePros?

 

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I havent heard much about the FirePros those are AMD's version of  a quadro right 

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I havent heard much about the FirePros those are AMD's version of  a quadro right 

Indeed, they are AMD's professional-grade cards; they both exceed the other drastically in their respective tasks so it's best to look up benchmarks on what he's doing for a quadro vs firepro :P the main reason to go for the professional-grade cards are the fact that generally they outperform their mainstream counter parts and that they also do not make the slight miscalculations that mainstream cards can sometimes make that can ruin a task as @Glenwing informed me :D .

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