W5000 vs K2000 vs R9 290 vs GTX 780

W5000 vs K2000 vs R9 290 vs GTX 780

  • W5000

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  • K2000

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  • R9 290

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • GTX 780

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  • Total voters
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Evmo25

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Oct 13, 2013
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Hi

I'm looking to build a PC used for applications such Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects, Autodesk, Autocad, 3ds max, Maya and Keyshot. I'm not a professional but do video editing, animation and 3D design mostly as a hobby at the moment but am looking to study 3D design at university next year so will need a good computer to cope with the stresses of the various CAD software. I have basically decided on the components of the computer all bar the graphics card.
My options are the GTX 780 or a Radeon R9 290 or the Quadro K2000 or a Firepro W5000. I just cant decided which one to get so any suggestions/advice/opinions would be greatly appreciated. My budget for the GPU is around the £400 mark.

These are the other component that I am going to have in the build so far-

CPU Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D14 65.0 CFM
Motherboard Asus Z87-PRO ATX LGA1150
Memory Patriot Viper 3 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1866
Storage Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" SSD
Case Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply Corsair 750W ATX12V / EPS12V
Optical Drive Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)

I would also appreciate any opinions on these parts as well.

Many thanks
 

KingDWS

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Won't comment on most of the hardware as it looks good to me. I just went through researching video cards for a workstation and finally went with a W5000. For my use in solidworks it had very good performance. Slightly better than the K4000, better than the K2000 and dpending on the test 60-85% of the w7000. If you look at the Toms gpu tests you can find those cards being tested on the various programs. Thats really the trick here is to best match the card to the software. I can't recall which one it was but the K4000 in one of the Adobe's blew away the W5000 but as I mentioned in Solidworks the W5000 was a few points better. I really didn't have a preference on getting either a Nvidia or AMD when I started so I could ignore most of the my card is better than your card pettiness. I'd take each of those cards and go through the programs and look at your realistic settings etc in each program to see which will work or won't. Then take price into account. I found the W5000 cheaper than all of them by a fair margin and it performed very well for my needs so it was a no brainer. Your going to have to look at things a bit closer as your looking at several programs. Last comment is that while a workstation card such as the K4000/2000 or the W7000/5000 are pricey they are worth it if you are doing professional graphics. The differnce in display quality is amazing. And if you must they do pretty well on games. I can crank up BF4 to ultimate on my W5000 and it is smooth. Hope that helps a bit.