I'm linking to this thread since it may be relevant. ...
New build advice saughtGraphics cards.Professional systems all seem to ship with either Quadro or AMD FirePro (Radion) cards which can cost as much as the processor and even go much higher into several thousand pounds.
My current system has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and I have been very happy with it's performance.
I have had some issues with a few scenes where I have loaded huge multiple populations and had a display slow down/stutter or even total failure but these have been rare and admittedly basically mu own fault.
I also intend to use the system for *occasional* gaming ... [cough] Star Citizen [cough]
So is there any real advantage in the either Quadro or AMD FirePro (Radion) cards?
Also is there any real disadvantage in them from the point of view of gaming?Obviously I want to be able to preview as many polygons at once as possible and the ability to perform some simulation calculations may prove useful at some point. From Terragens perspective all I need is to be able to preview a scene and for the time being all rendering and final output is down to having as much muscle as possible in the CPU (see linked thread above).
Bang for buck is difficult to work out for a graphics card since (in Terragens case) it has no output as such but I am interested in peoples experiences, thoughts, stories and recommendations.