Hmm, doesn't a third party manufacture the Quadro, formerly Elsa, now PNY?

In any case, I have both a Geforce 460 and a Quadro 4000 here in my
personal boxes. Price/performance is to the Geforce, but if I'm
working with anything big, I'll use the Quadro box.

If I can get them into the same room, I'll do a swap and run
benchmarks if anybody is interested. Spec stuff unless otherwise
suggested.

Cheers,

Christopher

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3D VFX | Matte Painting | IT services

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Vincent Liggio <vince@blueskystudios.com> wrote:
> The big difference from the support side is that nVidia manufactures the
> Quadro series boards and provides support for both the driver and board,
> while third party companies manufacture the GeForce series using nVidia
> chipsets, and sometimes they make changes to the design, and hence you're
> reliant on a third party company doing all the right things.
>
> On 06/03/2011 09:53 AM, Saham Ali wrote:
>>
>> We have had great luck with them, with no tweaks. For our pipeline, LW,
>> Nuke, Maya, AE, DF, RealFlow, and some custom apps, we recieve excellent
>> performance. We actually have MORE problems with our 3rd floor which is
>> filled with QuadroFx lowend to 4000 series cards.
>>
>> I wanna say GPU wise they are identical. Drivers are different to give
>> you more advanced features but there essentially the same card.
>> What your paying that big extra $$$ for is the support when things don't
>> work right. Which is great when your in a really large production and
>> shit just doesn't wanna work right.
>