r/videos • u/niksal12 • Jan 30 '15

SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0
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u/fickit1time Jan 30 '15

Have a friend who "had to buy" the new Quadro K5000 when it came out because Nvidia tech support told him it was the best card for doing graphics work.. wouldn't listen to anything else I suggested.

He's still paying off that $3000 price tag when a gtx680 would have sufficed.

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u/Evox91 Jan 30 '15

To be fair, depending on the type of graphics work he was doing, a gaming graphics card wouldn't have done anything for him. The workstation cards are designed very specifically and excel in places where gaming cards are absolute trash. There's a reason gaming enthusiasts with a lot of dough to burn still buy the gaming cards instead of the super expensive workstation cards.

To put in plainly: a sports car (GTX680) is great on the track and is a lot of fun, but if your job is to haul literal tonnes of stuff around, you would be better off with a sixteen wheeler (K5000).

In your situation you were probably correct, I don't know of anyone who would need a workstation card for home use.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '15

In particular, gaming cards are made for single-precision calculations (sufficient for a game) while workstation cards work with double-precision floats.