Workstation GPU vs Gamer Card

[Vince Becquiot]

The difference isn’t as much in the speed than it is in the reliability. Drivers are much more stable because they have been tested in the production environment.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Brian Louis]

[Justin Parker] “I’ve yet to see a comparison anywhere”
Here is a good link to read:
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

[Alex Udell]

Brian…

great Link!!!

completely demystifies MPE. Thanks!

Alex

[Justin Parker]

interesting article, but I’d still like to see how the gamer cards perform vs the Quadro cards.

[Alex Udell]

I think the point of the article is that if the gamer card fits the spec….then you’re likely to see similar performance.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
Younversity TV
http://www.youniversity.tv

[Brian Louis]

First Ppro uses whatever card as a display card primarily, if the card can keep up with the refresh rate and monitor res I don’t see what a $1600 would have over a $100-200 with the MPE disabled, there is no difference with the displays(I use dual) whether the card was a GT9600, GTX260, FX3800, FX4800, the overlays used in the Source and Program monitor is low res and basically the same, there maybe a bit of difference if the preview is blown to full size on a second monitor but I couldn’t tell, with using the MPE hack, the GTX260 performed about the same as the FXs I was able to use, I did get more RT layer using a Fermi 460 but after reading the article I would attribute it to using DDR5 memory vice DDR3, The GT9600 performed ok as a display card only, it didn’t have enough memory or cuda cores to work with MPE.

[Saturn Padua]

https://ppbm5.com/Benchmark5.html

Most of the systems measured are using off the shelf “gamer” video cards instead of Adobe-certified Quadros. The fastest system was equipped with a GTX480 (equipped w/ RAID 0 SSDs)