GTX 980 vs Quadro k2200 ... HELP PLEASE!

[AlexBW]

Hello, I need to decide what video card should I buy for my PC. I'm going to use these programs:

- Solidworks, Catia, Inventor (mechanical parts, rendering and advanced modeling)
- Sony Vegas, Adobe
- Blender (animations and video tracking)
- Videogames (as a hobby)

I have read a lot of forums/reviews and I heard that the best choice for this kind of programs is Quadro, but right now my budget can only take GTX 980 or Quadro k2200, which one should I choose??

Hope you can help me, thanks a lot.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I'd go with the 980.

980:
2048 Cuda Cores
256 bit Memory
DirectX 12

K2200:
640 Cuda Cores
128 bit Memory
Direct X 11

 

[Blue_Max]

I'd go with the 980.

980:
2048 Cuda Cores
256 bit Memory
DirectX 12

K2200:
640 Cuda Cores
128 bit Memory
Direct X 11

Nothing more need be said. RaistlinZ can drop the mic and walk off the stage. :awe:

 

[AlexBW]

Thank you answering =)

 

[PG]

I agree with skipping the quadro.

One advantage the quadro card would have by default would be Realview in Solidworks. By default Realview doesn't work with Geforce or Radeon gaming cards, but there are workarounds. You just have to make a few registry edits.
Info here: https://grabcad.com/questions/tutorials-featuring-realview-in-solidworks-2015
After the registry edits the quadro advantage is pretty much gone. Solidworks is mostly about the cpu anyway, and single threaded performance is king so go Intel there.

All Autodesk products are DirectX now, not Opengl, so they will fly with a current gen Geforce.
Other programs you mention benefit from CUDA and the Geforce is much more powerful than the quadro there too.

So to summarize: what RaistlinZ said

 

[96Firebird]

Depends on how much of each you will be doing. The K2200 in my work PC is much better in SolidWorks than my 970, probably due to the Quadro drivers. However, the rest of what you want to do will work better with the 980.

SolidWorks will still work fine with the 980, but some things won't work as well as it would with the K2200 (edge selection will be off, rendered graphics won't be as crisp, large assemblies will turn lightweight by default with much fewer parts on screen, etc..). It really depends on how complex your assemblies are.

 

[NTMBK]

Quadro. You get far better OpenGL driver support, which guarantees correct behaviour in your key apps.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Can he run both GPU's by chance? Maybe he can use the 980 for Cuda intensive work and gaming, and the K2200 for work tasks. I'm not sure if two different cards can be supported via Nvidia's drivers though.

Also... how would an original Titan fare in his work apps? You can find original Titans for about $300, which can still handle games well.

 

[PG]

The last I knew you couldn't run Quadro and Geforce drivers on the same machine.
I believe you can run AMD and Nvidia cards together, so maybe a quadro and Radeon together would be a good compromise. Or Geforce and Firepro.

Titan uses Geforce drivers, so a quadro would be better for the pro apps. It is a great card for fp64, (double precision) compute, but not too many applications really take advantage of that.