Is it better to buy those NVIDIA Quadro video cards or 3070/3080 for autocad?

[stam]

Quadro can use for basic gaming? whats the difference between Quadro and those gaming cards?

 

[shippogan]

Not sure are you referring to Autocad 2D or Autodesk Inventor 3D.
But for Autodesk products, they had been running on DirectX which Geforce is actually performs better. And bear in mind even though Quadro or Firepro (AMD) is the recommended GPU for professional software, they will only outperform when doing 3D render and simulation.
When you are sketching, opening heavy assembly, CPU and RAM is more important than GPU.

And yes Quadro can be used for gaming, just dont expect highest quality at 1080p

 

[86technie]

FYI Geforce 10XX series have studio driver meant to use
with Creative apps like Adobe.
Quadro is recommend for 3D applications like Autocad,
gaming is possible but it won't be that as smooth like
Geforce.

 

[congster2]

Depends on how much vram you need.

 

[stam]

I am just using AutoCAD 2D, sometimes may open multiple drawings. Which is better? Qoudro or 3060/3070?

 

[Kunkka]

I am just using AutoCAD 2D, sometimes may open multiple drawings. Which is better? Qoudro or 3060/3070?

get the RTX its the better all rounder

 

[easyxiaobin]

I am just using AutoCAD 2D, sometimes may open multiple drawings. Which is better? Qoudro or 3060/3070?

I would go for rtx instead, quadro has lesser power when it comes to modelling and assembly

 

[shippogan]

I am just using AutoCAD 2D, sometimes may open multiple drawings. Which is better? Qoudro or 3060/3070?

3060 better

 

[86technie]

I am just using AutoCAD 2D, sometimes may open multiple drawings. Which is better? Qoudro or 3060/3070?

What is your current rig spec? Is it in your sig?
Take note for multiple drawing you will need more RAM
at least 16GB.

 

[stam]

I am looking at AMD RYZEN 5 5600X | 4.6 GHZ | 6 Cores 12 Threads with 32Gb ram.

 

[wwenze]

Ok...............................................

First of all, a Quadro-branded card uses the same GPU chips as the GeForce version
For example Quadro RTX 5000 uses the fully enabled TU104 GPU also used in RTX 2080
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-rtx-5000.c3308
It has the same number of shader cores, TMU and *** as a fully-enabled TU104, which is 2080 SUPER
There are other chips too, like Quadro RTX 4000 is a less-enabled TU104, while RTX 6000 and 8000 use TU102.

And no, a Quadro is not just a freaking magical term that you throw around that when you say Quadro people go "oooooo this guy is an expert", no. There are many Quadro cards based on different GPU chips just like the gaming cards.

So what's the difference from the gaming version then? Two main things:

1) (*Not always*) FP64 calculation speed
You will see this term being thrown around: Double-precision speed is 1/2 of single-precision speed. Or 1/16 or some ratio. A ratio of 1/2 is a workstation GPU specifically designed for FP64.
For example Titan RTX and Quadro RTX 8000 based on TU102 both have the same 16TFLOPS SP and 0.5TFLOPS DP, or a roughly 1/32 ratio. The reason double precision is so poor compared to single precision is because the GPU only has single precision units so to perform a single double precision operation requires doing many steps.
While Quadro GP100 for example, this on uses the older GP100 GPU, with a SP of just 10TFLOPS but a DP of 5TFLOPS.

2) Bigger memory and ECC memory



So is a Quadro faster or slower or gaming? Hardware wise, because they are the same chips as the corresponding gaming card, they perform the same. In practice however, Quadro cards are not as tested as much by the gaming developers so expect more issues on the software side.

In terms of price-performance, a GeForce card is definitely way better than Quadro unless your task is memory size limited, needs more FP64, or requires ECC memory.

 

[stam]

Thank u, very detailed post I guess I just stick to the normal graphics card which I can use for both AutoCAD and gaming. Since my AutoCAD tasks are more CPU and ram dependent instead of the GPU.

Which is more worth for money 3060 or 3070? Thanks.

 

[86technie]

I am looking at AMD RYZEN 5 5600X | 4.6 GHZ | 6 Cores 12 Threads with 32Gb ram.

So your current rig is a Intel 4th gen?
Depend which version of Autocad 2D version you are using,
if latest version recommend upgrade the PC first
before graphic.

You can get Geforce 3070 but older Intel 4th gen may bottleneck it.

 

[stam]

So your current rig is a Intel 4th gen?
Depend which version of Autocad 2D version you are using,
if latest version recommend upgrade the PC first
before graphic.

You can get Geforce 3070 but older Intel 4th gen may bottleneck it.

I was thinking of buying a totally new rig, currently just a Ryzen 2400G.