6 Replies Latest reply: May 20, 2014 11:25 AM by LJH RSS

    10 bit monitor option without Quadro

    LJH Community Member

      Hi All,

       

      The Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 is considerably more powerful in many ways than the NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and about £350 cheaper. For Video work this is accepted but I also edit in Photoshop,  where the handling of 10 bits [K4000] would be a definite advantage.

       

      Would anyone know if there is a PCIe card that can be added to provide 10 bit monitor output whilst maintaining the superior performance of the 780.

       

      I use an Asus P9X79-E WS MB with 32 Gb of Dominator Platinum DDR3  installed, so I don't believe slot suitability or memory should be an issue.

       

      Best Regards,

       

      LJ

       

      As a footnote I'm not interested in 3D Graphics or Cad, just Video/Still editing and the usual MS Office Apps.

        • 1. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
          ECBowen CommunityMVP

          I would suggest a Quadro K2000 for PS. Then use the 780GTX for GPU acceleration.

           

          Eric

          ADK

          • 2. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
            LJH Community Member

            Cheers Eric, seems like a sound suggestion to me. I assume in this scenario, the rear outputs from the 780 would be left unplugged and the monitor[s] plugged into the K2000 ?

            • 3. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
              ECBowen CommunityMVP

              Yes that would be correct. I believe the Quadro drivers now include the Geforce drivers again but I have not checked in a while. If they don't you have to uninstall the current Geforce drivers installed. Then install the latest Quadro performance driver for the card. If the Geforce doesn't install at that point then you want to manually install the GeForce driver. To do that simply run the latest Geforce installer till it extracts to the Nvidia directory. Then cancel the install. Go to device manager and double click on the Display adapter for the 780GTX. Select the driver tab and then update driver. Point the folder location to the Nvidia directory for the Geforce driver. That will manually install the driver without effecting the Quadro installs.

               

              Eric

              ADK

              • 4. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
                LJH Community Member

                Thanks for the sound advice Eric. I can get the K2000 and 780 for around the same price as one K4000 but with far superior combined performance, at least on paper. I just need the K2000 and I will put your suggestions into practice.

                 

                Just one thought though, if the 780 squirts its enhanced output at the K2000 for output to screen, will the K2000 not present a bottleneck, hence negating the reason for the 780 in the first place. I'm not being negative at all, just curious as to how the K2000 would cope.

                 

                LJ

                • 5. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
                  ECBowen CommunityMVP

                  Drawing out the frames ie screen is a completely different process and step than the GPU acceleration. As long as the application caching model is mature then having the 2nd GPU processing will not be effected by the output card. The driver itself negotiates that traffic based on the application requests.

                   

                  Eric

                  ADK

                  • 6. Re: 10 bit monitor option without Quadro
                    LJH Community Member

                    Thanks Eric, that's good news.