Comments on: GPU review: Quadro 5000 vs GeForce GTX 580 http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/07/gpu-review-quadro-5000-vs-geforce-gtx-580/ Community for Entertainment Artists Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: GPU_Freak http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/07/gpu-review-quadro-5000-vs-geforce-gtx-580/#comment-31328 GPU_Freak Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:52:30 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=40265#comment-31328 Short answer: because AMD and Nvidia don’t provide them. (comes over as a cheap answer)

And you cant get either
a) A suplier to loan them out
b) Gnomon group of companies cant shell out a few bucks?

]]> By: Razor http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/07/gpu-review-quadro-5000-vs-geforce-gtx-580/#comment-31310 Razor Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:22:59 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=40265#comment-31310 If memory was a deciding factor for day-to-day use, then why not test the Quadro 5000 against a GeForce GTX 680 with 4GB of RAM as in an EVGA 04G-P4-3685-KR GeForce GTX 680 FTW..? In that comparison we would be talking about 1536 CUDA cores on the GTX vs. 352 CUDA cores on the Quadro and 4GB RAM on the GTX vs. 2.5GB RAM on the Quadro. The Quadro should get an overall beating at that point.

]]> By: Armie http://www.cgchannel.com/2012/07/gpu-review-quadro-5000-vs-geforce-gtx-580/#comment-31110 Armie Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:41:54 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=40265#comment-31110 Mind you though, for the price difference you could buy a whole second machine. Also, the test is skewed towards extreme memory use and favours Quadro heavily because of a bigger RAM. 90% of artists don’t have to deal with 5 million polygon scenes 90% of the time and for the test to be more realistic, it had to include a more normal use scenario. As it is, the test is useful for one smaller subset of artists but not across the board.

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