Hello everybody, I work with Zbrush, Maya (Vray), Marmorset and Photoshop most of the time, but I also like to play some games in my free time. I am getting a new graphics card but i dont know whether to get a gtx 980 or Quadro 4000, i've seen some awesome stuff from quadro in 3D applications, but they suck at games any comments help CPU: AMD FX-8320 @4.6Ghz and Corsair H100i Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Power Supply: Corsair TX750 V2 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB set Storage: 2x Samsung Hd502hj 500gb, Samsung Evo 250 GB Case: Cooler Master HAF 922. Maya VRAT (RT), can benefit from a workstation GPU. I was able to find a discussion of a professional using 3 Quadro GPUs to render an image.

It is quite extreme, we're talking about $10k worth of graphics which is rather extreme. You would have to find benchmarks comparing a desired GPU vs the 8320 CPU to find out if it's worth the purchase. Redline rumble 4 ignitro city games. Marmoset requires a low end GPU. A GeForce is listed in the requirements, but it's a very low end GeForce.

You could probably get away with a Quadro with ease. For Photoshop there's catch. The Quadro has the ability to use 10 bit output. GeForce GPUs don't. From what I've read, there's a premium for the Quadro and most people don't use 10 bit output. Photoshop is more CPU dependent but a GPU does help if you're doing 3D rendering to which the more cores a GPU has the better you will be. Hope this helps.

The Quadro FX 4800 was released over a year more recently than the GeForce GTS 250, and so the Quadro FX 4800 is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running. The Quadro FX 580 was released less than a year after the GeForce 9500 GT, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

Maya VRAT (RT), can benefit from a workstation GPU. I was able to find a discussion of a professional using 3 Quadro GPUs to render an image. It is quite extreme, we're talking about $10k worth of graphics which is rather extreme. You would have to find benchmarks comparing a desired GPU vs the 8320 CPU to find out if it's worth the purchase.

Marmoset requires a low end GPU. A GeForce is listed in the requirements, but it's a very low end GeForce. You could probably get away with a Quadro with ease.

For Photoshop there's catch. The Quadro has the ability to use 10 bit output. GeForce GPUs don't. From what I've read, there's a premium for the Quadro and most people don't use 10 bit output.

Photoshop is more CPU dependent but a GPU does help if you're doing 3D rendering to which the more cores a GPU has the better you will be. Hope this helps. The TITAN Black is a hybrid card, made for performance balancing between workstation and gaming. It's labeled GeForce cause its a gaming card, and that's what people buy the most, HOWEVER since the Titan has unlocked (or mostly unlocked) DP and such, its a formidable workstation card.

It's $1000 dollars because its on par with the 780 Ti, but it has the workstation power of a Mid-level Quadro, which could cost up to $3000 dollars. Its a good deal.

The TITAN Z was a little iffy on that hybrid approach. Should have been $1500-$2000 dollars, since its literally 2 TITAN Blacks on one board.

Hi all, Yes, I know this is a tough question but I'm building a new system from scratch and am still flipping between video cards. I don't want to spend $1000 on a video card but in reading through all the posts and the knowledge base, the Nvidia Quadro FX is recommended. Saying that, the GeForce appears better (faster) but I don't really know how the Quadro series differs from the GeForce or how it interfaces with VW (Spotlight).