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nVIDIA Quadro K6000

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May 22, 2014 3:06:56 AM

Hey, I am a professional 3D modeller. I work in multiple game development teams (Kran0x, Blacklight Studios) and am looking for a card to do my stuff on. I also texture and render edits on videos. So far I have my eye on the nVIDIA Quadro K6000. Thoughts? Could I have chosen better?

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May 22, 2014 3:12:32 AM

The K6000 is a hella fast card. I personally tend to go with FirePro cards as they're pretty good value for money (comparatively), although it is very driver dependent (I'm into 3-D Cad which the FirePro cards are pretty well optimised for, depends on what software you're running if it makes sense over the Quardro).

The equivalent Fire Pro would be the W9000 or the new W9100 (review of the latter: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/firepro-w9100-performance...). I'd have a look at the benchmarks for the software you use most before deciding.
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May 22, 2014 3:15:14 AM

OK. Thanks. I am leaning towards the nVIDIA Quadro because of nVIDIA's technologies that help with modelling, rendering e.c.t. such as CUDA, PhysX
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May 22, 2014 3:20:34 AM

PCJoe said:
OK. Thanks. I am leaning towards the nVIDIA Quadro because of nVIDIA's technologies that help with modelling, rendering e.c.t. such as CUDA, PhysX


Yeah if the software you're using supports those it's worth having.

The advantages of the Fire Pro cards over Nvidia- better multi screen support (something AMD does very well- 6 independent screens off 1 card is always impressive) and AMD cards have very high FP64 performance in Open CL.

Still if you're doing animation or something that supports PhysX and Cuda acceleration (but not Open CL) then that is probably going to save you allot of time compared to using the CPU in software mode.
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May 22, 2014 3:28:25 AM

Yeh, I just hunted around the web that is the internet and managed to drag up a few comparisons. The FirePro is the clear winner in most. I may buy this as when I apply HLSL or GLSL to my projects rendering time can take a while, so I may be leaning more toward the FirePro side now. Would it be worth buying a water block for this? I imagine it would get quite hot under load. Also, would my Corsair AX850 gold standard PSU be enough to run this and a Titan Black?
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May 22, 2014 3:34:00 AM

PCJoe said:
Yeh, I just hunted around the web that is the internet and managed to drag up a few comparisons. The FirePro is the clear winner in most. I may buy this as when I apply HLSL or GLSL to my projects rendering time can take a while, so I may be leaning more toward the FirePro side now. Would it be worth buying a water block for this? I imagine it would get quite hot under load. Also, would my Corsair AX850 gold standard PSU be enough to run this and a Titan Black?


I'd say you should be able to run both- as it's unlikely that you will be running both maxed out at the same time? Even if you were, a good quality 850W supply should be enough for both (I'm assuming you're going to use the Titan as a co processor for PhysX and Cuda?)...
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May 22, 2014 3:37:48 AM

Exactly. And the odd bit of gaming ;) 
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May 22, 2014 3:59:48 AM

And would a water block/extra coolant be necessary for this card?
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May 22, 2014 4:16:21 AM

Well based on the reviews the air cooler can be a bit loud so the water cooler would be quieter...
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