GeForce vs Quadro as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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986 words · ~4 min read
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so this graphics card is $500 and delivers some pretty Elite hacks or FPS
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look I don't care it doesn't matter the point is that it's the cat's pajamas and
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it's got a price tag that reflects that to which you might reply oh that's
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nothing lus there's this other sick gfx card I bet it's going to get so much
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more FPS I think I know what you're talking
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about and I do see how the logic works this one's $500 and this one's 5,000 so
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like it must get 10 times more FPS right
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sorry no it won't a little bit of Investigation about this particular card
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reveals that the actual Graphics core powering it is the very same GK 110 as
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you would find in a regular old GTX 780 at one10 of the price and while PC
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Hardware maybe powered by Magic blue smoke no amount of magic makes a chip
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with the same design manufactured on the same process node perform that much
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better than the same thing on another card all right so fine lus I get it
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these aren't a great value for gaming but this makes no sense um if they're
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basically the same thing why does one cost $5,000 well there are a few reasons
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but the biggest one is that the Target customers for this product large content
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Production Studios oil and resource exploration firms and the like have a
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lot more money than you and me and these products help them make so many more
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bucket loads of money that they can easily justify the cost so NVIDIA would
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be crazy not to take advantage of that and besides a Quadro and a GeForce
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running the same chip aren't quite the same thing for St ERS NVIDIA controls
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the specifications and quality assurance on all Quadro cards unlike GeForce cards
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which are left to the board Partners so you're going to get more DisplayPort outputs uh unique form factors like
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single Slot Cards and professional grade Hardware validation starting at its
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heart a Quadro is going to get a GPU that is cherry-picked for the best
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reliability lowest power consumption and lowest heat output then it's going to
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get equipped with a larger video memory frame buffer that features error
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correction technology following that it's going to get special drivers that
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are validated for seamless operation with the professional grade applications
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that these kinds of cards work best for 3D modeling animation and such and
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finally Quadro cards have one key feature enabled in manufacturing that
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lies dormant on most GeForce cards with Titan being the only current exception
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double Precision floating Point capabilities put all these things
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together and you've got a card that is less susceptible to random errors Works
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more reliably and for longer and can perform calculations and draw images
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with a much greater degree of precision than its consumer grade counterpart now
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this is the part where you probably want to jump in and say well hold on a second
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lonus none of that really sounds like it justifies the extra expense it seems
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like NVIDIA is actually kneecapping the consumer cards as opposed to drizzling
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special sauce on the pro ones and I'm a
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let you finish but actually yeah I can't really argue with that assessment what I
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will say in defense of this practice is that a the prograde stuff does
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legitimately cost some more to make B Gamers don't really need this stuff I
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mean did you ever actually sit there going well jeez if only the position of my character's head could have been
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calculated to 15 decimal places and see everyone does it this paintbrush is made
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of the same hair from an animal's rear end as some consumer grade one it's a
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bit better and it costs a lot more at least something positive comes out of
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this practice when it comes to Tech though Pros paying top dollar for gear
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gives Innovative companies the R&D money that they need to deliver better
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products for us consumers down the road so even though we can't afford that card
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that suitable for complex weather simulations today at least a year from
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now our games will run faster than ever and we can thank the folks who spend a
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lots of money on quadros and fire GLS and other professional great equipment
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