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Quadro K4200 and Titan Black

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Can someone explain to me why someone would buy a K4200? The Titan has more VRAM, more CUDA cores, and the same unlocked double precision? Yet the K4200 costs more. Why is this? In what ways is the K4200 better than the Titan? How do they compare?
 
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Quadro has enabled features for some professional applications which are otherwise arbitrarily limited. Quadro enables deep color in more instances than GeForce. Also, I don't know if this particular model offers it but some of the Quadro/Tesla cards offer ECC support.
 
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Maban said:
Quadro has enabled features for some professional applications which are otherwise arbitrarily limited.
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What applications?
 
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Basically, in Adobe or Autodesk software, which is better?
 
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Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro will only have 10-bit color with professional cards. I don't have a list handy but there are some CAD programs that are limited with non-pro cards. I would assume Autodesk stuff would be included in that but I have not researched it myself.
 
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Quadro cards from 2000 and higher can be "passed" in a virtual machine - called Multi-GPU. They have other interesting features (for example OptiX - improved Ray-tracing, ECC, bidirectional DMA), but not significant for a home-user/gamer.
Those options are almost all driver-restricted.

PS: AutoCAD switched to DirectX11. No longer performance dependent of video card type. It's single CPU capable, so it is bottlenecked there anyway.
 
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