Top single width GPU for GPU cluster (2011)

[Milad80]

Greetings,

We just purchased a c410x from Dell
http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/poweredge-c410x/pd.aspx?refid=poweredge-c410x&cs=555&s=biz

We had geForce 580s ready to pile into it and on the first one we noticed its not going to take a dual width card. So now im stuck trying to figure out what is the best single width card to go with.

Im looking at the quadro 4000 to fill the slots right now....

It needs to have lots of memory and be fast. It will be used for a VDI environment using RemoteFX and Hyper-V where the users will be using AutoCad and Sketchup as the main hogs of the video cards. Which I don't think the Tesla line up from Nvidia can do? Someone correct me if im wrong.

Price range should be under $2000 each. We did test fit a quadro 600 that fit nicely but we want more power per card.

 

[nforce4max]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133324

256 shaders and is single slot, based on GF100 Fermi and only requires the use of a single 6pin connector.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133353

Cheaper but less powerful and out of stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127558

A lot less powerful but cheaper. Will not run as fast as one will expect.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162072

More powerful but more expensive.

Beyond that if you want better you may need to consider some form of liquid cooling.

 

[EXT64]

Unless you can get a different cooler (such as the one shown in the pics on the Dell site) and switch every cooler, I think the 4000 is the highest single slot. Quadro should be good for AutoCAD since you can get the AutoCAD specific drivers for them.

 

[EXT64]

Also on a side note, B&H has the Quadros in stock, cheaper, and with free shipping (for US obviously): http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/726171-REG/PNY_Technologies_VCQ4000_PB_nVIDIA_Quadro_4000_Display.html