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reidbaker
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December 3, 2014

Geforce or Quadro graphics?

I'm running a Quadro card at work with UE4 and wondering if the card is not the best choice for using with the Oculus Rift DK2 - it's a Quadro K4000.

Is there any line of thought on this? What if I switched to a GTX 770?

    8 replies

    cybereality
    Inspiring
    December 3, 2014
    From what I've heard, Geforce cards are better for gaming purposes.
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    Cgpnz
    Up and Coming
    December 3, 2014
    Is Quadro just another means for NVidia to milk the 'professional'?
    Usual play: a 20% performance increase for a 60% whack.
    cybereality
    Inspiring
    December 3, 2014
    Quadros do have some benefits for professional work, but I've heard the drivers aren't optimized for gaming so you may even get worse performance playing games. However, you will pay a LOT more.

    For example, the Quadro K6000 ($5,000) is not even as good as a GTX 970 ($300).

    http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
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    owenwp
    Up and Coming
    December 4, 2014
    Buying a Quadro for gaming is like buying a pickup truck for racing. The pickup probably has more horsepower but that doesn't make it faster. It is designed to do lots of number crunching and to draw high density CAD models, heavy lifting not speed, and definitely not optimal latency.
    DSenter
    New Participant
    October 9, 2015
    Reidbaker, were you able to get your DK2 to work with the K4000 card? I am running a K5000 and haven't been able to get it to run with DK2 without crashing.
    Testdroid
    New Participant
    March 20, 2017

    Dear forum , a system I have available for the Oculus is  an Xeon Z800 work station with 2 quadro 6000 cards

    My question is , will this be enough ore should I buy a GTX 1080?

    Duncan
    Inspiring
    March 20, 2017
    Buying a Quadro for gaming is like buying a pickup truck for racing.
    The pickup probably has more horsepower but that doesn't make it faster.
    It is designed to do lots of number crunching and to draw high density
    CAD models, heavy lifting not speed, and definitely not optimal
    latency.
    I cannot speak for the drivers, but the Quadro hardware is actually faster than a matching GeForce. There are a number of memory bandwidth and DMA features that make the Quadros better.


    Dear forum , a system I have available for the Oculus is  an Xeon Z800 work station with 2 quadro 6000 cards. My question is , will this be enough ore should I buy a GTX 1080?

    In this case I would look into a GTX 1080. Quadro 6000s are nice but they are 2+ generations behind a GeForce 1080.

    Testdroid
    New Participant
    March 21, 2017
    Duncan thank for your info
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