Quadro FX 5800 vs GTX295

Very interesting as it seems the two are quite similar in power...ie: similar power consumtion, the gtx even has more cores however its very interesting how the gtx295 costs a whopping 500-600bucks while the quadro fx 5800 cost an unbelievable 3000 dollars....what is the benefit of the quadro...what makes it worth so f-ing much?

They accelerate the CAD (computer-adied design) and DCC (dgitall contect creation). Well these cards are usually used in workstations.

allthough they share the same core with Geforce, Geforce cards are nowhere near in terms of cad performance.




When you play game, performance (FPS) is really important so system can shut down shading textures rendeting shading, after only approximating a final output just in order to keep the Framerates at playable level.

And Cad cards complete all rendering operations even if that causes timings and delays.

BlueScreenDeath is correct, they are different architechure people usually have these cards in high ecnd workstations that do CAD designing.

Yep, the same is only skin deep here. Under the hood they are highly optimized for entirely different types of software.
Although a higher end workstation card can run games perfectly fine (notice I said higher-end) why would a gamer pay upwards of 3-5g's just to play a game that a much less expensive gaming card can do. Low-end cheaper workstation cards do a pretty bad job running games.

On the other hand though, no gaming card, no matter what the price, can touch a quadro running the applications it was designed to run.

thanks...i get the difference now cause I used to think that the gtx295 was the king of kings in quality and price but turns out I was wrong. LOL so i guess they have completely different purposes.