so this graphics card is $500 and delivers some pretty Elite hacks or FPS
look I don't care it doesn't matter the point is that it's the cat's pajamas and
it's got a price tag that reflects that to which you might reply oh that's
nothing lus there's this other sick gfx card I bet it's going to get so much
more FPS I think I know what you're talking
about and I do see how the logic works this one's $500 and this one's 5,000 so
like it must get 10 times more FPS right
sorry no it won't a little bit of Investigation about this particular card
reveals that the actual Graphics core powering it is the very same GK 110 as
you would find in a regular old GTX 780 at one10 of the price and while PC
Hardware maybe powered by Magic blue smoke no amount of magic makes a chip
with the same design manufactured on the same process node perform that much
better than the same thing on another card all right so fine lus I get it
these aren't a great value for gaming but this makes no sense um if they're
basically the same thing why does one cost $5,000 well there are a few reasons
but the biggest one is that the Target customers for this product large content
Production Studios oil and resource exploration firms and the like have a
lot more money than you and me and these products help them make so many more
bucket loads of money that they can easily justify the cost so NVIDIA would
be crazy not to take advantage of that and besides a Quadro and a GeForce
running the same chip aren't quite the same thing for St ERS NVIDIA controls
the specifications and quality assurance on all Quadro cards unlike GeForce cards
which are left to the board Partners so you're going to get more DisplayPort outputs uh unique form factors like
single Slot Cards and professional grade Hardware validation starting at its
heart a Quadro is going to get a GPU that is cherry-picked for the best
reliability lowest power consumption and lowest heat output then it's going to
get equipped with a larger video memory frame buffer that features error
correction technology following that it's going to get special drivers that
are validated for seamless operation with the professional grade applications
that these kinds of cards work best for 3D modeling animation and such and
finally Quadro cards have one key feature enabled in manufacturing that
lies dormant on most GeForce cards with Titan being the only current exception
double Precision floating Point capabilities put all these things
together and you've got a card that is less susceptible to random errors Works
more reliably and for longer and can perform calculations and draw images
with a much greater degree of precision than its consumer grade counterpart now
this is the part where you probably want to jump in and say well hold on a second
lonus none of that really sounds like it justifies the extra expense it seems
like NVIDIA is actually kneecapping the consumer cards as opposed to drizzling
special sauce on the pro ones and I'm a
let you finish but actually yeah I can't really argue with that assessment what I
will say in defense of this practice is that a the prograde stuff does
legitimately cost some more to make B Gamers don't really need this stuff I
mean did you ever actually sit there going well jeez if only the position of my character's head could have been
calculated to 15 decimal places and see everyone does it this paintbrush is made
of the same hair from an animal's rear end as some consumer grade one it's a
bit better and it costs a lot more at least something positive comes out of
this practice when it comes to Tech though Pros paying top dollar for gear
gives Innovative companies the R&D money that they need to deliver better
products for us consumers down the road so even though we can't afford that card
that suitable for complex weather simulations today at least a year from
now our games will run faster than ever and we can thank the folks who spend a
lots of money on quadros and fire GLS and other professional great equipment
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