Expected Quadro or FirePro refresh

[ggadrian]

A friend wants to build a new workstation (he uses Catia at work and likes to play with it at home) and we are wondering if there's going to be a major refresh of the professional line of GPU's this year.

The current models date from August 2014, can we expect new models this summer? In particular a K2200 or W5100 refresh.

Last year I built another workstation using a (very expensive for what it is) K4000 and a couple of months later the K2200 appeared with more performance for much less money.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Quadro M6000 will be presented very soon. Its based on GM200 like Titan X. No idea about Firepro, but one based on R9 390X could also come within 1-3 months

 

[ggadrian]

Quadro M6000 will be presented very soon. Its based on GM200 like Titan X. No idea about Firepro, but one based on R9 390X could also come within 1-3 months

The M6000 will be close to 4000$, we are more interested in the low-to-midrange models like the k2200 or the W5100, as they are perfectly fine even for quite complex models without being ridiculously expensive.

 

[Lorne]

Option if its not critical that it be a Pro series card, But a AMD 270-290 might be a option.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/specviewperf-12-workstation-graphics-benchmark,3778-3.html

 

[MeldarthX]

I would say refreshes will most likely for AMD will be 3-5 months roughly; possibly august the latest......I'm not sure on Nvidia....

 

[ddbnbbbrsy]

We deal with a number of quadros here, for 3dsmax/revit/sketchup+vray/etc

Generally their product cycle seems a lot longer than geforce products.

The k5200 is a great deal on a quadro for what you get, granted at nearly $2k it's expensive..... But hey might ask his boss/IT people if he can expense the card.

The k4200 is not a bad card, but even though it only benchmarks 10-20% slower we see larger speed difference in actual usage.


Depending on what they're doing they may not need a "real" quadro card. We've toyed with jumping traces on geforce cards and turning them into quadros........ It works, but you risk burning up the card or system.

 

[ddbnbbbrsy]

The M6000 will be close to 4000$, we are more interested in the low-to-midrange models like the k2200 or the W5100, as they are perfectly fine even for quite complex models without being ridiculously expensive.

FYI the k2000 is a bit cheaper and almost as fast as the k2200. If you only need the quadro capabilities and not outright speed it would work fine.

 

[ggadrian]

FYI the k2000 is a bit cheaper and almost as fast as the k2200. If you only need the quadro capabilities and not outright speed it would work fine.

The benchmarks shows that the k2200 is closer to the K4000 than to the K2000 and the K2000 is just marginally cheaper here in Spain.

The K5200 and K4200 are too expensive for him, he's fresh out of college and doesn't have much money, and having the boss paying for the car isn't going to happen here, much less in a small business (I believe they are like 6 to 8 engineers).

 

[metalliax]

The FirePro W7100 is a pretty good price/performance when it comes to professional cards, and it just came out in January. It is using AMD's latest architecture (GCN 1.3) and should be more future-proof than a W5100 or K2200. It also has 8GB graphics memory to boot. I think they're selling around $650-700