Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000

davidjones8418

Does anybody have an opinion on the Quadro RTX 4000 GPU? For rendering.

Similar price to the GeForce RTX 2080 Super.

 

i53570k

The lowest end Quadro cards might be similar in price but are always ~30% slower to the highest end Nvidia cosumer card in general benchmarks.  The premium is only justified after factoring that Quadro can deliver comparabl performances at specific tasks (CAD) while using much less power.  Professionals looking at Quadro usually shop at the higher end in the line where more memory are available but Nvidia also ramps up the price curve aggressively as there are no alternative consumer grade solutions like the lowest end Quadro.

I guess if you render 24x7 and don't game then Quadro RTX4000 "might" be a better solution (might be because I have no idea if Daz iRay can use Quadro better than RTX). 

davidjones8418

Thank you for your input.

I don't game much anymore, but I think I'll try to pick up an RTX 2070 Super. I do want to do a lot of renders, but they will generally be inside, so less work for the card I think.

 

i53570k

If you are not in a rush then it might be better off to wait a few months.  The next gen RTX 3080 launch is imminent and in addition to better performance the rumors are indiciating we might finally see a VRAM bump from Nvidia after many years.  There is nothing more important to iRay than VRAM.

Peter_DA

I would prefer the Geforce RTX 2080 Super because the Quadro has 2.394 CUDA-cores and the RTX 2080 Super has 3.072 CUDA cores.  I'm not an expert, but I heard, more cuda-cores will speed up the rendertime.

billyben_0077a25354

A Quadro RTX 4000 is basically a RTX 2070 that runs slower with Enterprise level Professional drivers that costs more ($899.00 for the Quadro vs. $400 to $500 for the RTX 2070).  They both haver 2304 CUDA cores and 8GB of memory  The Quadro just has much more stable drivers because they have to be