By the way, before anyone suggests otherwise, I don't mean to make it sound like a Quadro workstation card isnt as good as a much cheaper gaming card, so please do not misinterpret that. I'm just talking about render engines which use CUDA cores for rendering speed, such as Cycles and Octane. Of course, a $4000 Quadro workstation card would have greater overall benefits over a GTX card if you were running serious computationally intensive tasks like GPU enhanced video processing or fluid dynamics, etc. For high-end GPU computation, a professional workstation level card is always best if you can afford it. However, it won't give you the best bang for your buck in render engines like we are talking about here when you compare the cost vs core count specifically. The only exception would be if you plan on rendering very large scenes with a great number of very large textures, and needed more VRAM on your graphics card to handle that. Then again, for only $250 range, you won't see many cards with more than 4GB of on-board VRAM either.

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