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Quadro Card Question(s)

rrwardrrward Posts: 556
edited March 2022 in The Commons

I recently upgraded to a Quadro A5000. My intention was to use that as my render compute card, rather than the pair of 2080ti's in there now, and use my 1070ti card to run the display, as I've always had better luck if the compute card is not also trying to keep the display updated (I like to take care of other business while my render cooks). Well, it seems you can't do that as the Quadro drivers will kill the GeForce drivers and your GeForce card doesn't work as intended (you get an OpenGL version error when launching DS, for instance).

So, it looks like I either need to add a lower-spec Quadro card or an AMD card to the system. It's been a long time since I've dealt with AMD cards, and this is my first Quadro card (with the prices and availablity of 30x0 cards, it just made more sense to grab a Quadro). So, I'm really sure which card would be a good choice to drive the monitor. I'm running a 4K at 60hz, and the 1070ti was doing a good enough job, so I don't need anything absurdly powerful. Any recomendations on a card that's not too expensive and not too weak to do the job?

I don't play video games (unless you count Freecell) on this computer, so I don't need something that can run Crysis. Just Photoshop, video streams, browsers, stuff like that there.

I am right that I can run an AMD card and a Quadro at the same time? And, if I go with a Quadro, is there a generation limit? Do I need to stick with another Ampere card, or will Pascal or Turing cards work?

Thanks.

Or, am I over thinking this? Does regular Windows desktop shenanigans even impact the Cuda nad tensor cores enough to matter?

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  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975

    Hmmm ... I am using a Quadro M6000 (yes, a Maxwell series card). It is techinically rather outdated, but it still deals with Daz studio surprisingly well. I am sure a newer card would do better.  That said, the Quadro is a workhorse and will last a long, long time - it is better quality that the geforce cards (even if clocked slightly slower, it is more stable). I cannot speak for AMD, but I quite recommend Quadro from experience.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited March 2022

    rrward said:

    Or, am I over thinking this? Does regular Windows desktop shenanigans even impact the Cuda nad tensor cores enough to matter?

    Running three monitors with my 2070 super and can not see any reason* to complicate the system with an additional, different GPU, especially one with a different chip manufacturer. 

     

    Edit; *Not for just getting the monitors out of the rendering GPU

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  • OmnifluxOmniflux Posts: 383

    I currently have a Quadro M2000 and a GeForce 2080 Ti.

    To use both in the same system, I have to install the Quadro driver first, and then the GeForce driver every time I update.

    Installing in the other order has never worked for me, but both work correctly for me when done this way.

  • rrwardrrward Posts: 556

    Omniflux said:

    I currently have a Quadro M2000 and a GeForce 2080 Ti.

    To use both in the same system, I have to install the Quadro driver first, and then the GeForce driver every time I update.

    Installing in the other order has never worked for me, but both work correctly for me when done this way.

    Which is running the display?

  • OmnifluxOmniflux Posts: 383
    edited March 2022

    I have 2 5K screens on the Quadro and 1 5K + TV + Oculus 2 Link on the GeForce.

    Both are used by Iray.

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  • duckbombduckbomb Posts: 585

    I may have done something wrong, but I wasn't able to get the two different types of cards to play well... I have 2 Quadro RTX 8000s, and I wanted to run them both in headless mode and use a smaller powered AMD card to drive the display.  THis ended up being problematic.  It wasn't that I couldn't get it to work, but various updates would cause issues and more often than not I ended up in a situation where none of my cards outputted video and I had to keep plugging/unplugging my wacom monitor to get an image to finally come up.

     

    I just eliminated the smaller card and now just drive the display with one of the QUadros and I don't have any issues.

     

    Not super helpful, I don't think, but I guess if you are having issues with mismatched GPU brands take solice in the fact that you aren't the only one lol.

  • rrwardrrward Posts: 556

    duckbomb said:

    Not super helpful, I don't think, but I guess if you are having issues with mismatched GPU brands take solice in the fact that you aren't the only one lol.

    No, no. This is very helpful. I'm trying to find the best option before I spend any more money. And maybe I don't need a second card at all now. When I started out you really needed a second card to get the most outof your render cards, but maybe the A5000 is enough of a beast that ity no longer matters. And knowing what other people have tried and the problems they had really helps me know what to do, or not to do.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,212

    ...before I was notified by EVGA that a 3060 was available at a very fair price, I was considering a 16 GB  A4000. Consumed less power than my old 1 GB GTX 460, was a single slot card (OK no NVLink) and the markup was minimal compared to the RTX cards at the time (I was even seeing 3060s going for upwards of 900$ - 1,000$.while A4000s were priced between 1,125$ and 1,200$). 

    I actually would have taken the A5000 over the 3090 if I had the finances as like most Quadro GPUs, it is clocked slightly lower and thus has a lower TDP (20 W less than my current Titan-X) and was standard dual rather than 2.5 to triple slot card.  As I am not into gaming, frame rate is meaningless. However even at MSRP affording one would be a stretch.

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