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8/9/12 at 4:55pm
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I usually don't ask questions like these; they might even be against the rules of this forum, but here we go...

I have the choice between an used Quadro 5000 for $550 or a GTX 670, which I would buy new.

Basically, the question is... which one should I take, considering the resale value I could get in a few years (A new Quadro is worth 1.5k while the other is less than half the retail price of the Quadro) and the performance in modeling software such as 3DS Max, etc.

I have been considering buying a new system dedicated to those things but really needed to ask given this really low price for the Quadro.

Thanks guys!

Edit: I don't plan on gaming on this system...
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8/9/12 at 7:00pm
The Quadro 5000 is a very good card. If you can get it for $550 I would say go for it.
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8/9/12 at 7:02pm
If it is for a workstation the the quadro is the obvious choice.
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8/9/12 at 8:02pm
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It's not that obvious actually, performance from the new gaming cards (GTX580 and onward) are just about the same in modeling software as the Quadros (which are in fact GTX470/GTX480 with more features)
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8/11/12 at 11:18pm
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It's not that obvious actually, performance from the new gaming cards (GTX580 and onward) are just about the same in modeling software as the Quadros (which are in fact GTX470/GTX480 with more features)

The processing power is negligible. The only real difference is this: quadro cards can display 1.07 billion colors and GeForce can only display 16.7million color sRGB. Quadro has Better antialiasing . Stuff like that. At least that's my understanding.
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8/12/12 at 9:12am
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The hardware difference, if any, is usually with ECC Ram.
The Quadro 5000 is an older generation fermi board (4xx). The 5xx series GPUs were materialized as Tesla's for purely computational tasks.

Quadro drivers do offer much better OpenGL performance than GTX - it is not on hardware level.
The software optimizations that "supposingly" exist for Quadros are a hype for years now. Autodesk or Adobe do nothing "different". All the performance differences are in nVidia's side.

3DS Max is Direct3D (now "Nitrous") optimized for viewport acceleration. GTX cards do fine.
For purely OpenGL viewports (Maya, Sketchup and others), AMD cards are much better value (both Radeon and mid-range FireGL like the V5900).

Don't think about the resale value between the 2...even if you throw away the GTX, it will "lose" you less money. Don't expect to resell the Quadro 5000 for more than a couple hundred in 3 years - if someone want's it. If you don't know you need a $1.5K card for the X and Y reason,s you probably don't.
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8/12/12 at 9:38am
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It's not that obvious actually, performance from the new gaming cards (GTX580 and onward) are just about the same in modeling software as the Quadros (which are in fact GTX470/GTX480 with more features)

Actually the 600 series has significantly less compute performance compared to the 500 series. If you want compute performance without using workstation cards get AMD this generation.
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8/12/12 at 11:06am
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Thanks for the answers. Much appreciated.

I'm probably gonna get a 7950 at this point.
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Quote:
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Actually the 600 series has significantly less compute performance compared to the 500 series. If you want compute performance without using workstation cards get AMD this generation.

The 600 series has more compute potential than the 500, yet the existing OpenCL and CUDA accelerated applications have been optimized for the Fermi architecture and not Kepler.
Think of it as Hyper-threading: when not supported is almost useless, but when supported could work wonders...
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8/13/12 at 3:26pm
"The catch is that the Kepler core is a poor fit for compute applications. The excellent efficiency for graphics has undoubtedly come at the cost of general purpose workloads. As our analysis showed, Nvidia’s architects made a conscious choice to quadruple the FLOPs for each core, but only double the bandwidth for shared data. The result is that the older Fermi generation is substantially better suited to general purpose workloads and will continue to be preferred for many applications."
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