Animetion posted at 11:13PM Sun, 18 June 2017 - #4307830

The way I understanad the difference between the GRX & Quadro Series is the fact that Quadro are more for industrial applications for example when modeling a real product and you need to find out it's weaknesses and make a simulation which is mostly for engineering purposes and production of real stuff , etc. Of course here you are going to need very very precise and will need tons of polygons. Animation game development , etc, do not need to go that far it's optional so it may not be that advantageous to have a quadro as opposed to a GTX card where as he said there are more cuda cores each acting as a separate mini cpu and this is great for rendering along with RAM.

Overall, that's an accurate assessment. To put it in the most simplified terms, Quadro cards have more VRAM and memory bandwidth than a GTX card (up to 4 times the onboard memory), which account for why they cost up to 4x more than a high-end GTX card. Quadro cards are also supported by a 256-bit memory interface which allows them to handle much larger datasets than a GTX card. This is the reason it is very beneficial to use a Quadro if you are working with memory-intensive calculations, such as physics simulations or video editing. Certain software applications have been programmed specifically to take advantage of the Quadro's 256 bit data processing and access to large amounts of VRAM. The software specifications will usually list the Quadro as a certified card if the programmers have added this additional functionality into the application routines, Usually, professional CAD software will list the Quadro as a certified card for this reason.

On the other hand, most Geforce GTX cards come equipped with a greater number of processing cores and faster graphics clock speeds. Often these cards can be re-programmed directly by third party hardware distributors to reach clock speeds that are twice as fast as their native GPU engine specs (this is known as Overclocking). The overall graphics performance of a high-end GTX card makes them very suited to processor-intensive tasks like polygon rendering. This is why GTX run games better than Quadro, and why they can render 3d scenes in GPU render engines like Octane faster than a Quadro card could.

Also, there are now Geforce cards, like the new GTX 1080 and the Titan X, which can contain up to 12gb of VRAM, which means they can handle relatively large datasets too.

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