$5,000 Graphics Card!? - HOLY $H!T Ep. 9
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,699 words · ~8 min read
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So you may be asking yourself,
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how on earth did Linus Tech Tips
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get a hold of a Quadro M6000,
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a $5,000 video card?
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And the answer to that is that I'm not going to tell you.
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It's all top secret and .
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No, but what I will tell you is,
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but can it run crisis?
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Intel's Skull Canyon Nook features
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a sixth generation Core i7 processor
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and Thunderbolt 3.
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You can learn more at the link in the video description.
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But before I answer the age old question,
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let's see if we can't figure out
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exactly what makes a $5,000 graphics card
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so freaking specialtastic.
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I mean, it's got a GM 200 Maxwell architecture GPU on it.
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So you can't see it, it's on the other side,
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but you go ahead and try, good for you.
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That's like your effort over there.
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It's got 3,072 CUDA cores.
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It's clocked at somewhere around one gigahertz,
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a little lower on the base,
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a little higher on the boost.
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It's got, ooh, look at this.
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Four DisplayPort outputs.
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So you can have four 4K displays running off it
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at the same time.
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Also there's lonely old DVI up there.
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It can also run VGA if you're into that sort of thing.
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Although I don't think too many people
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are running $5,000 graphics cards.
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Can't afford a monitor that was made in the last 10 years.
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In terms of, okay, you got SLI and sync connectors,
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as well as a stereo connector
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if you work in stereo 3D content.
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So that's pretty cool.
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And this is really exciting.
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Boom!
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The power connector is a single eight pin
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on the back of the card.
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Over there, yes.
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On the back of the card, my friends,
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which I guess is important if you're mounting it
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in a rack mount case,
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where there isn't always clearance
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for power connectors that come out the side,
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like is popular on desktop models.
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The more you know.
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But hold on a second, Linus.
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All of that sounds awfully similar to the Titan X,
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a graphics card that costs $4,000 less.
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I mean, okay.
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There's an HDMI port instead of DisplayPort.
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And like, it's got an extra power connector
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on a different spot,
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but this one has like LEDs and .
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What makes this better?
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Well, we missed one small detail.
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It has 24 gigs of GDDR5 memory.
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And not only that,
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but that memory is capable of running in ECC mode
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for like super, you know,
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less chance of something going bad.
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Let's put it on a bench.
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Angels singing?
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Nothing, all right, fine.
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So maybe we get like lots of amazing options
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inside NVIDIA control panel,
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deciding how to use our GPU, you know.
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We can view system topology.
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We can set up mosaic, which is like surround.
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And we have a dedicated tab for changing the ECC state.
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Hard to make this exciting.
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Let's run a game.
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I'm methodically getting very high right now.
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Whatever, I didn't change anything.
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Screw off.
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Let's do the crisis benchmark.
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So the benchmark's over.
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Prepare to be amazed and awed.
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And I'm talking like, aw, not like aw.
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In crisis three, the Quadro M6000 scores 104 FPS.
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Is that even good?
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Yes, it is.
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So we're back at it with the Titan X.
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And I have to confess,
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this feels like a very similar experience.
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Okay, moment of truth time.
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105.5 FPS.
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Well, okay, then.
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But come on Linus.
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What were you expecting?
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Quadro cards aren't made for gaming.
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Well, truthfully, that's exactly what I was expecting
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because while it is true that Quadro cards
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are not designed for gaming, I mean, the gaming performance,
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of them is right on the spec sheet. The GPU, the clock speed it runs at, I don't know where this
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whole myth comes from, that quadro cards are meant for specific workloads and are not meant to game.
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And like, no, a GPU is a GPU. It just means that quadro cards are also made for other things.
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So let's have a look at some rendering benchmarks or maybe some, you know, high-end video production
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benchmarks and see if we can better justify its high price tag. Okay, so this is a Octane demo,
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a little outside my comfort zone in terms of products that I, oh, control Z. Okay, all good.
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Render target. There we go. So we're using, let's see, 1.6 gigs of memory and we are processing at
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7.2 to 7.3.
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Million pixels per second. Those pixels, I don't know what they are. Okay, well, I'm not going to sit here and watch this go for half an hour.
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So let's try something else before we put the Titan X back on. DaVinci Resolve. Let's watch some frickin' sharks.
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All right, we're getting about 12 frames per second with like denoising on and such.
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Again, presumably that is very good, but I don't know. That is very similar.
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That is...
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faster so far.
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That is...
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the same.
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But maybe DaVinci Resolve then. I want to see big FPS. Oh, now come on.
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That doesn't even make sense. No, that can't be right. Wow, that shark just like ate a fish.
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Okay, so DaVinci Resolve with our 6K footage on a 4K timeline
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performed much better on the Titan X. But of course,
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you could afford much more than one Titan X for the price of the Titan X.
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You could afford much more than one Titan X for the price of the Titan X.
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you could afford much more than one Titan X for the price of the Titan X.
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for the price of an M6000.
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Let's see if the story changes with more Titan Xs.
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Eight pin.
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Two.
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Six pin.
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Two.
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Dual Molex.
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Okay, I have used adapters.
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Wait, what? Why is this not lighting up?
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Is it working? Is like the light just unplugged? Did someone screw up and not plug in the light on this?
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Wait, no, this doesn't make sense, because this was my first one.
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Wait, no, this doesn't make sense, because this was my first one.
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How could that not be working?
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Whatever the indicator LEDs might seem to think all three video cards are showing up
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And we are not running an SLI because a I don't have a three-way SLI bridge handy and B
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Because that's really not the point of what we're doing. We are not looking at gaming performance
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We are seeing how the Titan X compares to the quadro in more quadro like applications
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three Titan X's is
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much faster
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Wow, that's scaling though. Look at that
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It's estimating that it's only gonna take about 11 minutes to finish this scene
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Of course, I still don't have 11 minutes because WAN Show started 28 minutes ago
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Let's fire up resolve and see how that does
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You've got to be kidding me. I think that would have worked. I think we had all three GPUs engaged
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But we just triggered over current protection. I mean
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The truth of the matter is that none of this really affects the conclusion anyway
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Why does the quadro M6000 cost five?
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$5,000 in the olden days
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I would have told you that it's for its fp64 double precision compute performance because prior to the m-series
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That would have actually been true it performed more like a Tesla in that regard
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But these days it actually performs just like a g-force there too with
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1 32nd of the performance of what you can expect in fp 32 computations
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so if you were say for example doing financial analysis or some kind of
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Physical modeling you wouldn't choose one of these either
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No
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my friends the quadro M6000 the reason that NVIDIA and PNY both
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Refused to send one to me even though I explained that I was gonna explain all this that they're not for general consumers
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they're not for gaming in fact, they're not even for this the purpose of these is
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simple if you need to render scenes that require more than the amount of memory that you'll find on a consumer-grade graphics card you
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Will need to buy one of these so let's say for
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example your
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Pixar or you're working on the Angry Birds movie or whatever the case may be if you are anyone else
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then you would be better served by a
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Bunch of these and like a lifetime supply of M&Ms
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And maybe throw in a power supply that doesn't trip the OCP when you try to actually engage all of them
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So that's pretty much it then
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Thanks for watching this episode of holy sh**
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Ask all of your technology related questions and get answers better answers than no you can't game on a quadro
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The true answer is yes, you can. No, you probably shouldn't
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Because you just spent
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$5,000 for the gaming performance of it and that's ignoring the
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TDI which performs exactly the same as the Titan X for a thousand dollar graphics card. Thanks again for watching. See you guys next time