GTX vs. Quadro

[Cryptronix]

Hey Guys,

 

I am in a bit of a situation right now.

 

I am a mechanical engineering student and I have to decide between a GTX and a Quadro.

 

SolidWorks clearly favours the Quadro, but since I am a student I might get by with a GTX (which would perform way better in the occasional games).

 

Do you have any suggestions or experiences that could help me?

 

Thanks in advance

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Cryptronix said:

Hey Guys,

 

I am in a bit of a situation right now.

 

I am a mechanical engineering student and I have to decide between a GTX and a Quadro.

 

SolidWorks clearly favours the Quadro, but since I am a student I might get by with a GTX (which would perform way better in the occasional games).

 

Do you have any suggestions or experiences that could help me?

 

Thanks in advance

Go for the GTX. If you really require a machine that has a Quadro, your school should be providing you access to such systems. Don't waste your own money on it. It's not a relatively small price jump going from GTX to Quadro. 

[Cryptronix]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Go for the GTX. If you really require a machine that has a Quadro, your school should be providing you access to such systems. Don't waste your own money on it. It's not a relatively small price jump going from GTX to Quadro. 

Thank you for the quick response and help!

 

[suits]

I second that. If you need a quadro for something the school should be providing that thing.

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, Cryptronix said:

Thank you for the quick response and help!

 

i used to scrape by doing Solid on a Acer laptop with an i3 and a GT620 for my classes. i also did mechanical engineering! (great choice btw  )

anyway, basically any GTX card will do, as solid is a very adapable program which will scale very nicely on all kinds of hardware!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

i used to scrape by doing Solid on a Acer laptop with an i3 and a GT620 for my classes. i also did mechanical engineering! (great choice btw  )

anyway, basically any GTX card will do, as solid is a very adapable program which will scale very nicely on all kinds of hardware!

That too. My sibling completed his Mechanical Engineering degree with a first gen i3 Acer Aspire with a little Radeon HD 5450, 4GB of RAM too. How that thing manage to run Solidworks without complaining while every single MacBook Air in the room shat themselves? We'll never know.

 

Used to run Photoshop on a Pentium M with 768mb of RAM. It's amazing how old hardware can sometimes keep up so well. 

[Kalm_Traveler]

if someone else is footing the bill get a machine with 2 Quadro GV100's with NVLink bridges and have the best 2-card solution in the world for pretty much any workload (including the most powerful gaming graphics setup currently possible!) 

 

But if you're paying for everything definitely get a Geforce card that is powerful enough for your engineering work.

[Christophe Corazza]

6 hours ago, Cryptronix said:

Hey Guys,

 

I am in a bit of a situation right now.

 

I am a mechanical engineering student and I have to decide between a GTX and a Quadro.

 

SolidWorks clearly favours the Quadro, but since I am a student I might get by with a GTX (which would perform way better in the occasional games).

 

Do you have any suggestions or experiences that could help me?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Engineering... good choice 

 

I'm not a gamer at all. For my studies I use PCs for computer simulations/calculations, CFD, CAD etc.

Therefore I went straight to a Quadro for my main computer since every workload that I use benefits from having a Quadro.

 

@Cryptronix I know that some universities emphasize other computer software skills compared to others.

Do you know what software you are going to use during your classes at university?