Quadro 2000 vs. 560 Ti 448 cores (for a dedicated CAD machine)

[NikoTech]

I'm building a cheap machine dedicated for CAD
(i.e. no gaming. Will only be using Rhino 5, Alias Automotive, SolidWorks, and 3DS Max with V-Ray for rendering, as well as the usual PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Microsoft Office);
and, so far, I have a:

i7 980x
32GB (4x8GB) Patriot Extreme Performance Viper 3
512GB Crucial M4
Quadro 600 1GB

I plan to have two (or more) graphics cards so I can dedicate one for the display output, and the other strictly for rendering and general 3D viewport performance.

Going by specs alone, the Quadro 2000 looks archaic compared to the 560 Ti.
Plus the 560 Ti has well over double the amount of CUDA cores than the 2000 (which would benefit greatly in rendering), plus an extra 0.25GB of VRAM.

But I hear that there's some magic pixie dust in the Quadro cards that somehow make them 'better' (but I can never really get any explanation as to where they perform 'better'...rendering? viewport performance?) when it comes to CAD.

So...which one should I go for?

 

[moonbogg]

Not sure about the pixie dust, but for solidworks you won't have realview support withj the GeForce. That's the realtime fancy reflections and shading that only works with a quadro. Also, sometimes with GeForce cards, the drivers don't work well and you get visual glitches, parts of the screen not showing up etc. Its not the hardware really as much as the firmware and drivers. They do it on purpose to make more PROFIT.

 

[NikoTech]

Not sure about the pixie dust, but for solidworks you won't have realview support withj the GeForce. That's the realtime fancy reflections and shading that only works with a quadro. Also, sometimes with GeForce cards, the drivers don't work well and you get visual glitches, parts of the screen not showing up etc. Its not the hardware really as much as the firmware and drivers. They do it on purpose to make more PROFIT.

Ok, then...any ideas as to how much of a improvement in performance in the realview support would I get from a Quadro 2000 as opposed to a Quadro 600?

 

[moonbogg]

Ok, then...any ideas as to how much of a improvement in performance in the realview support would I get from a Quadro 2000 as opposed to a Quadro 600?

How large are your assemblies? Do you have parts with a lot of patterns in them?