QUADRO/ FirePro for everyday life [home use] ?

PLAfiller · Feb 23, 2018

Sup all ? I hope you are all well in this winter time ( where it is winter of course). I am investigating the possibility of switching my main PC GPU to a quadro ( K4000 to be more precise). Reasoning is: I've never bought a new GPU for my RIGs and I probably won't ever. Second hand quadros are not what the initial cost professionals pay when they expect to earn money from it . I would like to learn a bit of drawing in DesignSpark Mechanical as it is free and user-friendly ( yes, I know about SketchUP, but I need something different). And I see quadros also do well with video editing and photoshop/gimp and they have hardware acceleration too, so you can watch movies and stuff. My point is, if you don't play games at all and if you don't pay for a brand new quadro/firepro, is there any real difference in everyday use? Yeah, I know pro cards, don't have 0db cooling/LED/bells and whistles, but I already have a solution to possible noise problem. It's just I have always thought you need a consumer grade card for home users, while it seems you can exist perfectly fine with an enterprise card and may be even better off. Just a weekend question, no biggie.

peche · Feb 23, 2018

how much are you paying for the card?
overall card status?

have had some quadro cards at office, have done also re-paste and maintenance to some of them, if the price is decent enough, go for it, i have seen some on ebay starting at $250-300 tag, they perform great despite being a marginally older video card,

nivida specs

natr0n · Feb 23, 2018

Many videos on youtube people can use them for work and gaming. The drivers are usually more stable as well.

crazyeyesreaper · Feb 23, 2018

Unless your doing work that will ACTUALLY make proper use of the GPU its not worth even bothering

A regular Geforce or Radeon GPU still works with those apps still has acceleration for various programs etc. While not as fast as the pro series of cards they still work just fine for beginners and hobbyists.

That said if you want a quadro card by all means go for it. A firepro W5000 (old based on a 7750 / 7770 was still on par or up to 3x faster in certain professional workloads compared to a 7970 at the time. When i had both to play with. That said I use autodesk maya today with a 1080Ti still works just fine for hobby work etc.

EarthDog · Feb 23, 2018

natr0n said:
Many videos on youtube people can use them for work and gaming. The drivers are usually more stable as well.

But they are notably slower in gaming, and not sure they are more stable, but they do offer more support at least.

DRDNA · Feb 23, 2018

100% totally depends on what you have to pay for this card! Tell us that and we can tell you logically yes or no.

cdawall · Feb 23, 2018

EarthDog said:
But they are notably slower in gaming, and not sure they are more stable, but they do offer more support at least.

They are horribly outdated normally at least on the AMD side.

natr0n · Feb 23, 2018

Other day I was looking at a certain 6gb firepro card for $170 brand new.Now no longer in stock and prices doubled from other sellers.

PLAfiller · Feb 23, 2018

DRDNA said:
100% totally depends on what you have to pay for this card! Tell us that and we can tell you logically yes or no.

Well, Firepro is non-existant locally on the 2nd hand market. I can only guess people bought Quadro most of the time. The most popular option is K4000 2GB DDR5 ( like the one on the picture below). Price is something like 75-90 EUR/ 90 - 110 USD. EDIT: ok V5900 from the red camp.

crazyeyesreaper · Feb 23, 2018

Yeah that k4000 IS OLD insanely old its from back in the HD6000 series / 7000 series. era. Its essentially a GTX 650 TI or 660 if memory serves me right. That said the K4000 is definitely superior to the V5900

DRDNA · Feb 23, 2018

lZKoce said:
Well, Firepro is non-existant locally on the 2nd hand market. I can only guess people bought Quadro most of the time. The most popular option is K4000 2GB DDR5 ( like the one on the picture below). Price is something like 75-90 EUR/ 90 - 110 USD. EDIT: ok V5900 from the red camp.

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Well at that price It seems acceptable but not really advisable.

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QUADRO/ FirePro for everyday life [home use] ?

Quadro for home desktop?

Yes, if not gaming, and cost is low

Yes, if intended for certain activies: editting, drawing, computation...etc.

No, if no specific purpose is intended

Quadro is not for watching movies, not worth it for average consumers

I can't think of another sensible option, so have a double fried south korean chicken

Other [ comment below if you wish]

PLAfiller

peche

Thermaltake fanboy

natr0n

crazyeyesreaper

Not a Moderator

EarthDog

DRDNA

cdawall

where the hell are my stars

natr0n

PLAfiller

crazyeyesreaper

Not a Moderator

DRDNA

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