Hmm... Little to no difference between the two.

I'll just go with whatever gives me the best deal.

 

Sure they may be able to play games but the price/performance ratio is horrible compared to regular cards.

 

Sweet, so when I next upgrade, I'll just get the W9000 instead of the 7970, kill 2 birds with one stone.

Oh wait, what's that? I could buy 6 7970's, throw 2 in my current system, plus design an entire system around the other 4?

I'm gonna take what's behind door #2.

 

This review was absolutely pointless.

 

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This review was absolutely pointless.

False.

 

Once you guys calm down, you'll realize these benchmarks were done out of curiosity. They are not trying to seduce you into getting a workstation gpu for games.

 

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Once you guys calm down, you'll realize these benchmarks were done out of curiosity. They are not trying to seduce you into getting a workstation gpu for games.

What are you talking about, this is OCN 2.0, you're supposed to get frothing mad over everything.

 

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Originally Posted by XAslanX

Sure they may be able to play games but the price/performance ratio is horrible compared to regular cards.

Not if you can get research grants or your boss to pay for the hardware!

 

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Originally Posted by That Guy

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Originally Posted by Derp

This review was absolutely pointless.

False.

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Originally Posted by GuilT1

Once you guys calm down, you'll realize these benchmarks were done out of curiosity. They are not trying to seduce you into getting a workstation gpu for games.

I concur. It is an interesting topic. For people who need the performance in professional applications but want to use the same machine for a little gaming, it's good to know that GPU makers can deliver a practically no compromise product. The hardware is fundamentally the same, after all, and you're paying a premium, why couldn't the GPU makers include the game optimizations in the package ? As long as it doesn't affect the performance and reliability in the professional applications, it's good marketing from the point of view that you don't need two separate computers to perform different tasks. This will only be of practical interest to a minority, but I admit I was curious too, and I also have no need or intention to buy a professional level GPU. But again, getting the curiosity satisfied is worth an article, it's not that they are going to do a series of these articles regularly.

 

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Not if you can get research grants or your boss to pay for the hardware!

Now you're thinking.

 

Interesting, my v4900 was terrible on metro 2033 and skyrim before I could afford a real card. It was also hard to get working on LoL. Terrible screen tearing and other issues. I'm sure it was all driver related. The gt640 I borrowed for a bit felt way better than the v4900 as well as beating it in Shogun II benchmarks by about 12~ fps. Just from my experiences though. It has the gt 640 preforming worse than the v4900.

 

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Not if you can get research grants or your boss to pay for the hardware!

don't workstation cards excel at a few things normal cards don't or is that outdated information?

 

Hmmmm..the Unigine Heaven benchmark on extreme tessellation was interesting.

 

It's a funny article. Anyone wanting to buy my watercooled Quadro 6000 overclocked to 670MHz/1800MHz at stock voltages, just let me know. You can play games on it while I use the money to buy 3 Titans in tri-SLI.

 

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Originally Posted by DrBrogbo

Sweet, so when I next upgrade, I'll just get the W9000 instead of the 7970, kill 2 birds with one stone.

Oh wait, what's that? I could buy 6 7970's, throw 2 in my current system, plus design an entire system around the other 4?

I'm gonna take what's behind door #2.

I love threads in which sarcasm is so very evident.
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It's a funny article. Anyone wanting to buy my watercooled Quadro 6000 overclocked to 670MHz/1800MHz at stock voltages, just let me know. You can play games on it while I use the money to buy 3 Titans in tri-SLI.

Do I see a Guy Gavriel Kay book cover as your avatar?

Read The Fionavar Tapestry?

 

I found this article pretty interesting having never owned or needed to own a workstation GPU, I've always wondered how they go in games but why no Tesla's? or are they not classified as workstation GPUs.

 

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I found this article pretty interesting having never owned or needed to own a workstation GPU, I've always wondered how they go in games but why no Tesla's? or are they not classified as workstation GPUs.

Tesla's aren't workstation GPU's, they are purely for raw processing, which is why they have no video output of any kind (VGA, DVI or HDMI).

Link to Tesla information page.

 

Hmmm when did the 680 get that bad?

 

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Originally Posted by Liranan

Tesla's aren't workstation GPU's, they are purely for raw processing, which is why they have no video output of any kind (VGA, DVI or HDMI).

Link to Tesla information page.

Thanks for the clarification, like I said I don't know anything about workstation GPU's.

 

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Originally Posted by Liranan

Do I see a Guy Gavriel Kay book cover as your avatar?

Read The Fionavar Tapestry?

Yes and yes! Yay, another fan!

 

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Originally Posted by cdoublejj

don't workstation cards excel at a few things normal cards don't or is that outdated information?

....that's the entire point of the article! They are using professional cards.

 

How would consumer grade cards behave in this benchmark with modified Quadro/Firepro drivers?
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Yes and yes! Yay, another fan!

More fan than you, for you do/did not recognise the name Liranan

 

People don't see a point to this review? It means if you do a lot of photoshopping, etc you can get the benefits of a FirePro/Quadro and still game on it, makes it much easier to build a workstation.

 

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Originally Posted by Brutuz

People don't see a point to this review? It means if you do a lot of photoshopping, etc you can get the benefits of a FirePro/Quadro and still game on it, makes it much easier to build a workstation.

Except you don't need a professional card for PS: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cs6-gpu-faq.html

If you need a professional card, you probably are getting one any way for work.

 

Ive always wanted to know if a gaming GPU can do workstation rendering? In CAD programs?

The Quadro 400 isnt cheap but according to that is quite pathetic...
Could you just buy a GTX 650 and call it a day? Or do they do something special?

Another example is the AMD FirePro W900 VS the 7970Ghz edition

I did a quick ebay search and the W900 is $3,500!!! could you not just get a 7970 to get better performance?

I see that the W9000 has 6GB VRAM so I guess you could get the GTX Titan to keep it equal and still save $2,000