Autodesk’s Jamie Gwilliam has posted an article explaining why you should choose professional over gaming graphics cards for your 3DS Max installation. More at Jamie’s Jewels.
Professional versus gaming graphics cards
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“Gaming cards normally just have the one driver release”
Uh? What? nvidia release many, many versions of drivers for the gaming cards.
I bought a quadro way back, and got frustrated with glitches in the maxtreme drivers (although spline drawing was great) and nvidia’s reluctance to release new drivers when there was an SDK break.
I’ve no real interest in iray, and I despair when I look at the power sapping bricks graphics cards have become.
It will take a hell of a lot more to convince me to splash out on a quadro again.
yeah I agree. And posted as much in the comments section.
I have a new Quadro 5000 (which my work bought) and a GTX 480 (which I bought)
If the price spread wasn’t so stupidly over-inflated, I would maybe consider buying one.
Having both and with what I do, I really don’t even see enough true performance gain to justify it.
The old days for instance 3dlabs card bought you 5X or more better performance, now it just seems to buy you a bigger dent in your wallet.
A big hurdle for nVidia to overcome, I know that Steve and I aren’t the only ones that think this way 😉
It seems like Max’s ancient viewport code is mainly to blame. Until they’ve finished Nitrous, assuming it is as fantastic as they claim it will be, spending the money on a Quadro is a waste.
Nonsense to the last level. Why do MaxUnderground even posted such biased article? Thumbs down on this one,
I have to agree that either this chap doesn’t know what he is talking about or he’s full of it.
Gaming cards usually get new driver versions every month or two. New drivers are even more important in games than in production software since new games come all the time and the drivers need to be optimized for each game to get more performance from the card.
Nowadays you can even get gaming cards with 4GB of ram. They are special versions from individual brands though.
The main difference between gaming and pro cards are component quality, warranty, software/durability/compatibility certification and different performance priorities in drivers. Companies need to be able to rely on the cards and that’s what the (often onsite) warranty and certifications come in.
@etikka: Thank you for voicing your opinion, but please keep your criticism respectful and free from aggressions or personal derogatory references.
Funny thing is that you can get some imporvements on a nvidia gameing card by just using a quadro driver ( by using a modified .inf during install…
eg. Cleartype looks and works definitly better on a gaming card running quadro drivers vs. running the standard drivers…
i can’t take that mentioned article serious by any means…