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Benefit of using Quadro FX 5800 vs. GTX 580 in CS6... Is there any?

May 8, 2012 2:19 PM

I've been looking around and could not find a good justification to use a Quadro FX 5800 vs. GTX 580. Is there something that I am missing about the Quadro?

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  • RjL190365
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    1. RjL190365,
    May 8, 2012 5:21 PM   in reply to h3ll0man
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    Here is a simple reason not to use the Quadro FX 5800:

     

    It is of a much older design than the GTX 680. In fact, the FX 5800 is based on a GeForce GTX 285, with only 240 CUDA cores (and it uses only DDR3 VRAM). The GTX 680 technically has 1,536 CUDA cores, but is hamstrung somewhat by a 256-bit VRAM bus (albeit GDDR5).

     
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    2. anat_usa,
    May 10, 2012 5:12 PM   in reply to RjL190365
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    so gtx 680 is not the best idea? does it fully supported my CS 5.5 / cs 6.0?

     
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    3. Bill Gehrke,
    May 10, 2012 5:40 PM   in reply to RjL190365
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    I have a question for you on the GTX 680, why do you and others say that the GTX680 is hamstrung by the 256-bit bus when the memory bandwidth of the GTX580 is 192.4 GB/s and the memory bandwidth of the GTX 680 is essentially the same at 192.2 GB/s.  The specifications show that despite a narrower interface that have much faster memory for the 600 series (Data rate of 6 GHz versus 4 GHz) Incidently there is a serious memory clock rate mistake on the nVidia page on the GTX 680 specs.   For backup I had to go to EVGA's specifications

     

    anat_usa, go with the GTX 6xx family there is now a new GTX 670 with either 2 GB of VRAM or 4 GB of VRAM.  You will be much happier in the long run.

     
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