QUADRO VERSUS GEFORCE DRIVERS

We did the test with a quadro K1000m that we had here, for blank, scalars, color and with or without EDL filter.

QUADRO VERSUS GEFORCE DRIVERS

To test this, you just have to go in the drivers and select the profile 'game development' and the card will behave as a 'geforce'. In short: Quadro cards do not have an advantage over geforce (for the same GPU specs), and can actually be a bit worse. Ok, I think I've got most of the answers I needed after some experimenting: I personally have a (lower end) Quadro card for color grading work and a Geforce for viewing large amounts of polygons or doing certain calculations.Īnd, last but not least, the price for higher end Quadro cards is quite painful.

These could boost the viewport perfomance quite substantially.

There used to be perfomance drivers for certain applications, which were certified etc. So basically much of the hardware is the same (except more VRAM on Quadro cards) but the main difference are the drivers. On other hand I know that on Geforce Cards Nvidia artificially limit the viewport perfomance when using double sided shading since they consider this a 'professional' feature. So the raw perfomance is quite often worse, than their Geforce equivalents. The difference in performance usually sparks quite some heated debates: Usually the Quadros have a lower clock frequency since they are optimized for stability. Other advantages, for example, are the use of ECC-memory and multi display sync. Some benefits of the Quadro cards, which were particullary interesting for me, is the support of 10bit displays (for color grading) and support for Quadbuffer stereo. Short answer: It depends alot on your application and your budget. I've faced the same question whether a Quadro offers substantial benefits over the Geforce cards.

Quadro versus geforce