Workstation GPU

[ZackCodesAI]

Which is the best go for workstation graphics card, for 2000$ budget build and also the best in the market.

Also, what is the difference between gaming GPU and Workstation one, besides VRAM, can they be swapped over?

[MrMcFarts]

Chances are if you don't know the difference between them, you probably don't need a workstation graphics card.

[3 Lions]

Quadro P5000/P6000 

 

For the differences watch this... 

 

 

[ZackCodesAI]

Just now, MrMcFarts said:

Chances are if you don't know the difference between them, you probably don't need a workstation graphics card.

That's what this thread is for, isn't it?

[scottyseng]

Just now, Zackbare said:

Which is the best go for workstation graphics card, for 2000$ budget build and also the best in the market.

Also, what is the difference between gaming GPU and Workstation one, besides VRAM, can they be swapped over?

What programs do you use? You might be better off with a gaming GPU.

 

The workstation GPU also have rear facing power connectors (matters more for servers). They also have software optimizations that let them run faster in some programs. Also they have 10-bit color output (However, gaming GPUs are getting this feature as well).

[ZackCodesAI]

Just now, scottyseng said:

What programs do you use? You might be better off with a gaming GPU.

 

The workstation GPU also have rear facing power connectors (matters more for servers). They also have software optimizations that let them run faster in some programs. Also they have 10-bit color output (However, gaming GPUs are getting this feature as well).

3Ds Max, Revit, Premiere pro, Photoshop

[scottyseng]

5 minutes ago, Zackbare said:

3Ds Max, Revit, Premiere pro, Photoshop

Yeah, you can get away with a Gaming GPU for these. Do note that Revit is primarily CPU bound (Uses CPU to load geometry).

[ZackCodesAI]

Just now, scottyseng said:

Yeah, you can get away with a Gaming GPU for these. Do note that Revit is primarily CPU bound (Uses CPU to load geometry).

Then what is FirePro, qoadro for? What is the difference.

Also, they have more VRAM, so shouldn't be they better in rendering and scrubbing?

[scottyseng]

7 minutes ago, Zackbare said:

Then what is FirePro, qoadro for? What is the difference.

Also, they have more VRAM, so shouldn't be they better in rendering and scrubbing?

They have higher VRAM / optimizations in some programs. They are certified to work 100%. However, they will get killed off by their gaming card equivalents (aside from vram). These days, the gaming card drives are much stable than they were back then (I had issues with my old Radeon card that my FirePro didn't in Revit...that was 2010 though).

 

Ah, the other major thing is technical support. With Quadros and FirePros, you can call them with a dedicated line and they will actually deliver patches as needed. Not so much with gaming cards. This might be make it or break it for some businesses as well.

 

Oh, some of the high end workstation GPUs have ECC memory.

 

VRAM only matters if you actually manage to fill them up. Maybe if you had a high res high polygon scene with a large size, you might run into issues on 3DS Max.

 

Scrubbing depends on if the codec is GPU accelerated, but that mostly depends on GPU and CPU speed overall. Also system RAM.

[MrMcFarts]

Workstation cards are for when you need something really reliable and cannot afford crashes, like for example Pixar is rendering toy story 4 they can't afford it to crash midway through so they would use a workstation card.

 

Workstation cards are made to be reliable and stable the sacrifice a bit of power for reliability.

 

If you just use these things for fun or as a small hobby like YouTube you probably don't need one, and you'd get better price to performance with a regular card.

 

 

(note I have no knowledge of this, this is just what I read somewhere else I may be wrong)