K4000 or Titan

adamtron,

Deciding between a K4000 and Titan for 3D is going to be dependent on the applications used. For example, in Maya and Solidworks, a Quadro is essential to run the viewports- a $175 Firepro V4900 will surpass a $1,000 Titan. However, in Inventor a GTX- the Titan, will have the advantage. With both cards there are benefits by way of CUDA acceleration in a lot of Autodesk, Adobe, and Dessault (Solidworks, Catia). For most rendering applications- not all- the CPU is more important- clock speed and number of cores available.

If your client is using applications that together seem to require both cards, then I would suggest a Quadro K5000, which appears to run everything well.

I have this same dilemma, and have looking into the possibility of some sort of dual boot configuration where one configuration would boot to a Quadro as primary and the other to a GTX, but it seems that the card would have to selected as primary in BIOS for each change. As I have two workstation systems, I have considered running one with a Quadro and the other with a GTX and on a KVM switch!

If you list the applications used, and something about the system being used, I might be able to comment more specifically, although I'm not knowledgeable about Linux.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

HP z420 (2014) > Xeon E5-1620 quad core @ 3.6 / 3.8GHz > 24GB ECC 1600 RAM > Quadro 4000 (2GB)> Samsung 840 SSD 250GB /Western Digital WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card > AE3000 USB WiFi > HP 2711X, 27" 1920 X 1080 > Windows 7 Ultimate 64 > Autodesk Building Design Suite, Inventor Pro, Solidworks, Adobe CS MC, Corel Technical Design Sketchup Pro, WordP Office, MS Office Pro [Passmark system rating = 3815, 2D= 767 / 3D=2044]

Dell Precision T5400 (2008) > 2X Xeon X5460 quad core @3.16GHz > 16GB ECC 667> Quadro FX 4800 (1.5GB) > WD RE4 500GB / Seagate Barracuda 500GB > M-Audio 2496 Sound Card / Linksys 600N WiFi > Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit > (earlier versions) AutoCad, Revit, Solidworks, Sketchup Pro, Corel Technical Designer, Adobe CS MC, WordP Office, MS Office Pro [Passmark system rating = 1859, 2D= 512 / 3D=1097]