Quadro for Editing?

[questkid44]

Hi, I have a GTX 750 Ti, and i am getting into editing in lightworks. I can get a Quadro 1800 for 20 dollars, and i was wondering if the quadro would improve my performance.

 

[firefoxx04]

That card is significantly weaker than the 750ti

There is nothing special about those cards other than they are "certified" for workstation tasks. A cuda core is a cuda core, and the 750ti has significantly more cores.

 

[questkid44]

Okay. Would there be a way that I could add the power of the Quadro to the 750 Ti? I have 3 more PCI-E X16 slots.

 

[questkid44]

And i know that i cannot SLI them.

 

[iamacow]

If you want more power, get a different card. That Quadro is basically a GeForce 9600 GSO (G94 Core). completely worthless for anything modern besides driving another monitor or two.

it so old in fact it does not support H.264 acceleration

 

[questkid44]

OH WOW! That is a bad card. I looked up the specs and its only 64 Cuda Cores as opposed to 640. Thanks for your help!

 

[iamacow]

Also you cannot mix Quadro and Geforce cards for a few years now. You can thank Nvidia for that. If you want to a second card to offload editing with Quadro you will need to buy a Tesla card.

Some editing software will use every card available, others will only see the 1st/main card. It's software dependent.

 

[firefoxx04]

generally gaming cards do fine. Autocad uses Dirext X now, so gaming cards are actually BETTER.

Now your program might not use direct X, but its worth thinking about. Gaming cards are just rebranded and not promised to be as stable.