No way!!!

The much touted Maximus solution, at least by Adobe, is an utter waste of money, because it requires a very expensive Quadro card plus a Tesla C2075 card, that is even slower than a simple two generations old GTX 470, for the simple reason that it lacks CUDA cores and memory bandwidth to make it faster. We have several Maximus solutions in the current PPBM5 benchmark and despite prices up to € 6000 for the Quadro 6000 plus a Tesla C2075, these solutions are easily outperformed by many GTX 470/480/570/580/670 and 680 cards, that cost only a fraction.

BFTB wise, the 670/4GB is the much better option and is significantly faster than even the Quadro 6000 plus the Tesla C2075 for less than 10% of the price.

If you want a pro card, wait for the K20 to appear in Q4.

All the GTX cards I mentioned have CUDA cores and sufficient VRAM to allow the use of hardware accelerated MPE.

However the Tesla C2075 has only 448 CUDA cores and a memory bandwidth of around 150 GB/s. The GTX 580 has 512 CUDA cores and a memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s, so it is way faster, but does not cost € 2300, only € 350. Same argument applies to the latest Kepler range (670/680).

The problem is that nVidia keeps the prices of Quadro/Tesla artificially high and does not deliver any value over a simple Fermi/Kepler card for a fraction of the price.

Put it another way, when you have to commute 30 miles each day in the vicinity LA, with all the traffic jams, you can use a Maybach (€ 700,000) or a simple Lexus RX450H (€ 75,000) to get you from A to B, what do you think is more economical?

Yes.

See http://ppbm5.com/MPE%20Charts.php

No, since PR can not use more than 50% of that cards capabilities. PR only uses ONE GPU, so the second one is money down the drain.

Keep in mind that to use 10 bit output, you also need 10 bit HP Dreamcolor (€ 2100) monitors or better, like Eizo Colorgraphic (€ 3500). A simple Dell Ultrasharp or Apple Cinema monitor will not do.

If you only use 10 bit monitors like the models above - you did not tell that - then I would suggest the Quadro 6000 plus the Tesla C2075 and two Colorgraphic monitors. It does not fall in the best BFTB category with a price of € 13,000 just for the video card and monitors. That amount is around the same as SIX to SEVEN complete and very decent PC's that are used by many here.

If you haven't spent huge amounts of money on very expensive 10 bit monitors, you are best off with a single GTX 670/4GB card for less than € 500.

I am getting amazing performance from my new setup with 4K files in a 1080P sequence. I dont plan on using speedgrade for color correction so I added the GTX 570 to the system. I veiw at 1/2 resolution and have gotten realtime playback on a 6 way compositied animated split screen. Using Source Setting I also can do realtime 1 light of the R3D files.

HP Z820  ( 2 - 2687w CPUs)

64 GB ram

GTX 570

Dulce ProDQg2 16 TB raid (5)

That might be a PrecisionColor model, not the simple Ultrasharp, and btw, Dell does not even mention 10 bit color depth on their site, maybe because it is not really 10 bit. IPS has nothing to do with color depth.

But that is not a simple Ultrasharp, whether that is TN or IPS. So you were wrong.

The performance difference between the 670 and the 680 will be hard to discern, so from a BFTB view, the nod goes to the 670.