Additional Card near Quadro..

#1

Hi;

I want to use my Quadro k4000 as slave, with its %100 performance…

I want to buy a regular nvidia gpu card for windows and its applications…it will be master, quadro will be slave and inactive…

I wonder i can do it or not?

#2

Just remove it and sell it? It wont do you a great deal of good.

#3

Thanks for your brilliant idea :wink:

I did a big mistake,dear friend… I bought it with its high-price few months ago… I regret, but it’s too late… Just wondered i can do it or not…

#4

I dont understand, if you dont want it, if you think it is too slow for the cost, just sell it and use the money for something else. Holding onto it wont do you any good.

#5

It will only help with gpu rendering - will be problematic since it will have less ram than the other gpu, or can be useful for driving more than 3 monitors, or extreme monitors (4k, or 61200-144hz), otherwise pointless to have more than one video card

#6

My main focus is improving FPS rate in viewport…

I have a work which has 7million polygoned, it has 19 fps or less…

I also suspicious about my quadro works well or not, but i did cinebench benchmark, the results was normal according to recommenders on this forum…

I thought k4000 is powerful while working on viewport, with high count polygoned scene with fps…but i was mistaken…

#7

what 3d software are you using? I’ve found the quadros to be fantastic at maya’s legacy viewport, but bad at everything else

#8

Generally, i use “3ds max 2014” software…

#9

yeah, you for sure are better off with a nice geforce with 3dsmax than a quadro

#10

The Quadro k4000 is based on the budget low end geforce 650, a £90 card which whilst not bad, can only be politely described as incredibly mediocre. If you have problems with your frame rate in 3D then it is entirely possible it is caused by the gfx card. the reason I suggest selling it rather than keeping it is because the k4000 is £800 just sat there doing nothing. You could sell it and use that money to buy one of the fastest cards available.

The other thing you need to consider is whether the speed is caused by the gfx card. Remember your cpu has to feed the gfx card, if the cpu has a slow speed then this can be the culprit. And no, having a xeon doesn’t mean it will be fast.

#11

Thanks for your comments…

You’re right, i must sell it, but it’s hard to sell in Turkish market, but i will try…

In gtx series, which features i must consider? High cuda core counts?

#12

There’s no reason to debate really, Quadro and GTX on the same box don’t mix easy and are a pain, end of story. Hope to find someone that will buy the k4k and buy whatever gtx you can afford that isnt’t a dual card.
A healthy amount of memory will help for gpu rendering and heavy texture loads, especially in Mari or mudbox, the rest is largely down to the clock, which generally tends to be aligned to the core count anyway.

#13

Your best chance would be ebay, just make sure you open it up to EU/worldwide bidders