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To Quadro RTX 5/6000 or not to Quadro?

feldarztfeldarzt Posts: 178
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Guys, I'd like to call for advice.  I'm thinking - not like 100% seriously thinking but semi-seriously - about maaaaaybe getting a Quadro GPU. Or maybe save a ton of money and get a second 4090. Or maybe kcuf everything and don't get anything.

The thing is, I have never had experience with the Quadro GPUs. And I don't really understand how exactly, in what way would one be better than the semi-pro 4090. I mean, except for the VRAM amount, the A6000 seems to be more or less, give or take 2k CUDA cores, on par with 4090. But then, why the triple-quadruple price difference?

So my question is, could knowing people explain how would an A6000 or A5000 be better for 3D graphics, rendering, and specifically working in DAZ than the 4090? Except for the obvious 2x VRAM amount. Would it be faster? Or just more reliable? Or is there something that I don't understand?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,661

    They charge more because they can - they are marketed to professionals. The benefit for Iray in DS would be the memory - they do have other benefits, but those are not relevant to us.

    Remember that 50x0 cards (and any pro equivalents) are not yet supported by the embedded version of Iray, and won't be in DS 4.x.x.x - support will  have to wait for the next major version of DS. Whether it would be better to try grabbing a 4090 before they vanish (if you can) or to wait and get a 50x0 when DS supports them (and perhaps when there are cards with revised power-deliverey systems) is up to you.

  • feldarztfeldarzt Posts: 178

    Well, this is exactly the reason behind my lack of knowledge and question. I mean, those GPUs are marketed to professionals, that I know, and that is where my knowledge about them ends. So I'm curious what is so special about those video cards? There has to be something, otherwise no pro would have used them.

    Richard Haseltine said:

    They charge more because they can - they are marketed to professionals.

     

     

    But in this case, it looks like they're kinda pointless. So looks like a second 4090 it is.

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The benefit for Iray in DS would be the memory - they do have other benefits, but those are not relevant to us.

     

  • ArtAngelArtAngel Posts: 1,795

    feldarzt said:

    Well, this is exactly the reason behind my lack of knowledge and question. I mean, those GPUs are marketed to professionals, that I know, and that is where my knowledge about them ends. So I'm curious what is so special about those video cards? There has to be something, otherwise no pro would have used them.

    Richard Haseltine said:

    They charge more because they can - they are marketed to professionals.

     

     

    But in this case, it looks like they're kinda pointless. So looks like a second 4090 it is.

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The benefit for Iray in DS would be the memory - they do have other benefits, but those are not relevant to us.

     

    Too bad the NVLink was dropped. It does enable utilizing two cards as one. That's the only reason I would get two 3090's vs one or two 4090s.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,226

    ...I have been looking at the last generation (Ampere) Professional cards not just for the memory, but all are dual slot (instead of being the size of a brick like a 3090 or 4090),  All are blower cooled cards which exhaust he heat out the back of the computer instead of into it,  They consume less power (the max TDP for the 24GB A5000 is 230W compared  to 350W for the 3090), They also support TCM (Tesla Compute Mode) which if used strictly for rendering (not driving displays) allows for  bypassing  Windows WDDM. .

    The Ampere series cards can take advantage of NVlink for memory pooling

    These are dedicated workstation/compute cards so not as good for gaming as the GTX line.

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