Best card to take advantage of PProCC

[Chris Borjis]

probably not if your on a mac.

if your on a pc though, you might look into the latest GTX cards
if there’s one with more cuda cores.

might end up costing less.

[Alex Rod]

I’m on a Mac Chris. I want the most performance I can get. Do you think one of the GTX cards will give me better performance than the Quadro K5000?

thanks

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Alex Rod] “Is there something better than the Quadro K5000 at that price point?”

GeForce GTX-680 Mac Edition.

[Alex Rod]

I wonder, why the huge difference in price?
The k5000 is about $2000 when the GTX680 is less than $600

[Greg Jones]

I have a GTX-680 Mac edition and it screams. Much cheaper than k5000.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

[Greg Jones]

I believe for Premiere Pro there would be no difference since they both have the same number of Cuda Cores. I think where you might see the k5000 pull ahead is if you are doing complex 3D animation.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Alex Rod] “I wonder, why the huge difference in price?”

Primarily marketing although Quadro cards support a 10-bit color pipeline (not on a Mac though); some offer the added reliability of ECC memory. I haven’t seen a single benchmark on today’s apps where K5000 would pull away from a GTX-580 or 680 in performance. If anyone has seen one, please share.

That said, K5000 only needs 122W peak power and a single 6-pin power connector that a Mac Pro already has. GTX-680 Mac – 195W and two 6-pin plugs. It comes with the right power adapters though.

For performance alone in most apps (including Pr CC), it’s GTX-680 Mac.

[Tim Kolb]

The Quadro vs GTX card question comes up quite often.

A 10 bit color pipeline is critical for monitoring sophisticated projects…but of course a 10 bit display is needed to realize that benefit.

One other difference is that Quadro cards are built by NVIDIA only. GTX cards are built under license by a variety of manufacturers, and there very well may be small differences in components from manufacturer to manufacturer…

There’s also the matter of heat and power consumption, and the arrival of the Kepler technology has increased the differences in this aspect…most people tend to look at display card specs from the standpoint of processing cores and VRAM…so the GTX670 vs the K5000 makes a close comparison. The K5000 has the same amount of RAM, and an equal number of cores, yet max power consumption for the K5000 card in the spec is 122 watts.

The spec for the GTX670 is 170 watts…about 40% more power…for 8 bit color vs 10.

Cooling also needs to be considered…GeForce cards create heat…the GTX670 specs to operate at temperatures in excess of 200F degrees.

For many, these compromises may seem minor compared to the difference in purchase price, but different factors carry different value for each customer. In environments where noise and temperature are important considerations in addition to visual quality and speed, this is not the slam-dunk decision that it is sometimes portrayed to be.

If I’m playing Halo and I need to tolerate some fan noise and an occasional alien shields texture redraw error for a frame…then it’s an easy decision.

…however, my clients aren’t nearly as flexible about their logo animating in their commercials.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Alex Rod]

So what you’re saying is that the k5000 is the one to get?

I am still confused about this. Don’t know if the k5000 or the gtx680

[Greg Jones]

My advice would be if money is no object then get the K5000. If you want to get 95% of the k5000 at a third of the price then get the GTX680.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

Greg Jones
Orlando,Fl.
https://www.d7-inc.com