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    What's the difference?

    Could someone just clear up something for me?

    What is the difference between the normal range of GeForce cards (6, 7, 8 series, etc.) and the workstation series (Quadro) - and more importantly, why are they so much more expensive?

    I'm guessing they have more processing power or something..?

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    They are designed for different tasks in mind. The normal series generally having gaming tasks intended for them but the quadro cards are designed to be better for graphics production type tasks. There is overlap between the two but they are optimized for specific jobs.

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    Gaming cards are intended for speed or pumping out pixels.

    Workstation cards are intended for accuracy with speed being slightly secondary.


    I think the chips are the same, but the way they work is different. I remember that with one of the previous generations of cards, you could trick drivers into thinking your consumer card was a workstation card.
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    As a symptom of the above, workstation cards almost always have killer OpenGL performance, and not so good DirectX compared to desktop cards.

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    The differance is usually the configuration of a few resitors on the board and the bios.

    Basically in quadro mode they have a few extra pro-graphics functions, stuff like hardware line anti-aliasing.
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    The Quadro is for the 3D Graphic designers out there and is for production work.

    Found this one a website:

    Quadro card works at a higher core frequency than GeForce, and has some professional graphic features that have been locked on the GeForce.

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    They are the same core though and I think Rivatuner can softmod a geforce into a quadro to unlock the few extra features.
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