Does anyone use Quadro Graphics cards?

wintoons

Hi Guys, 

I wanted to ask, does anyone use Quadro graphics cards for rendering? 

If so, is it alot faster for rendering? 

SixDs

Like mainstream GFX cards, the Quadro lineup consists of many different models with different features and capabilities. To answer your qustion definitively, therefore, would require a more definitive question, like: "Would Quadro X be faster for rendering than GFX B?" That is a question that someone might be able to answer. As for any old Quadro card being faster, the answer is no. There are some GFX cards that would be faster than many of the available Quadros. Which Quadro are you considering?

wintoons

SixDs said:

Like mainstream GFX cards, the Quadro lineup consists of many different models with different features and capabilities. To answer your qustion definitively, therefore, would require a more definitive question, like: "Would Quadro X be faster for rendering than GFX B?" That is a question that someone might be able to answer. As for any old Quadro card being faster, the answer is no. There are some GFX cards that would be faster than many of the available Quadros. Which Quadro are you considering?

Ok, I was just curious. 

I was thinking about the P5000. I currently have a Geforce GTX 1080Ti. Which does a good job. I was curious as if it would perform better?

Kitsumo

Looking at the wikipedia page, the P5000's specs are closer to the 1080. The 1080ti has more cores and higher memory bandwith. The only advantage the P5000 has is more memory. I'd guess it's not worth the price for an extra 5 Gb of VRAM.

 

shaneseymourstudio

I render most everything on a mobile workstation that uses P5000 quadro card. My scenes typically hit 10GB+ and since it operates in TCC mode I have access to all 16GB. I started with Daz last November using a 1080Ti desktop and it was faster, has almost 1000 more cuda cores, but I ran into limitations with my scenes. I am still able to produce excellent scenes quickly with the P5000 just not as fast as the 1080Ti

One thing to note is that I use Dell's driver for my P5000. I tried using nvidia's current driver but it didn't play nice. The Dell driver does great for my setup. Whichever you decide to go with I would recommend at least 32GB ram. All my scenes could be lowered, and in fact were, to fit in whatever GB allotment I needed but I prefer to render my models at subD 3 and with full size textures and like the ability to include 3-5 full res models and environment without worrying if my card can handle it. If you are ok lowering scene textures and subD then go with the 1080Ti and just use Scene Optimizer or manually change.

Also, one thing I discovered with the 1080Ti...don't overclock it. At least for the drivers I used that were out at the time, it caused alot of issues where either the render would fail or messup or at the end things looked odd or it would fall out to cpu render even though it was not close to the 9ish available GB after WDDM has its way.

wintoons

shaneseymourstudio said:

I render most everything on a mobile workstation that uses P5000 quadro card. My scenes typically hit 10GB+ and since it operates in TCC mode I have access to all 16GB. I started with Daz last November using a 1080Ti desktop and it was faster, has almost 1000 more cuda cores, but I ran into limitations with my scenes. I am still able to produce excellent scenes quickly with the P5000 just not as fast as the 1080Ti

One thing to note is that I use Dell's driver for my P5000. I tried using nvidia's current driver but it didn't play nice. The Dell driver does great for my setup. Whichever you decide to go with I would recommend at least 32GB ram. All my scenes could be lowered, and in fact were, to fit in whatever GB allotment I needed but I prefer to render my models at subD 3 and with full size textures and like the ability to include 3-5 full res models and environment without worrying if my card can handle it. If you are ok lowering scene textures and subD then go with the 1080Ti and just use Scene Optimizer or manually change.

Also, one thing I discovered with the 1080Ti...don't overclock it. At least for the drivers I used that were out at the time, it caused alot of issues where either the render would fail or messup or at the end things looked odd or it would fall out to cpu render even though it was not close to the 9ish available GB after WDDM has its way.

Thanks for the tip, shaneseymourstudio . So really its not a big difference then if you use either a Quattro or a 1080ti. 

nicstt

Kitsumo said:

Looking at the wikipedia page, the P5000's specs are closer to the 1080. The 1080ti has more cores and higher memory bandwith. The only advantage the P5000 has is more memory. I'd guess it's not worth the price for an extra 5 Gb of VRAM.

 

If your scenes regularly use that extra; it would be a good buy, whereas a 1080ti would be a waste as it would be never used.