Dr.Edison
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Selecting a Video Card
Sunday, August 05, 2012 12:37 AM
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I'm in the midst of building a workstation using the SR-X, a pair of Xeon E5-2687W processors and 64GB of RAM. The machine will be used mostly for editing videos in Adobe Premiere and was wondering if we should go with a 690 card or opt for the more expensive professional cards such as a Quadro 5000.
Would the Quadro card be significantly faster when rendering video? Or would the 690 do as well, or almost as well?
Thanks!
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bayleyw
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Re:Selecting a Video Card
Sunday, August 05, 2012 9:24 PM
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The 690 will be fine.
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Re:Selecting a Video Card
Sunday, August 05, 2012 9:25 PM
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bayleyw
The 690 will be fine.
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Re:Selecting a Video Card
Monday, August 06, 2012 6:13 PM
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Dr.Edison
I'm in the midst of building a workstation using the SR-X, a pair of Xeon E5-2687W processors and 64GB of RAM. The machine will be used mostly for editing videos in Adobe Premiere and was wondering if we should go with a 690 card or opt for the more expensive professional cards such as a Quadro 5000.
Would the Quadro card be significantly faster when rendering video? Or would the 690 do as well, or almost as well?
Thanks!
certain apps like solidworks, ce5, 3dmax, and others definantly are better on a quatro 5000. some features are actually enabled with the profesional card that are not available to use with the 690. having said that, it is a diminishing return sort of thing, so if you want to pay 3 times the money for 1.5 times the return in performance then I highly recomend it. basically if your rendering makes you money, go with the quatro. if you do it for fun then do the 690.
 “I built a castle in the swamp and it sunk. I built a second castle and it sunk too. I built a third castle and it burned down and then sunk. But the fourth castle, Ahhhh! That one stood.” —Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Dr.Edison
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Re:Selecting a Video Card
Monday, August 06, 2012 6:20 PM
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Dr.Edison
I'm in the midst of building a workstation using the SR-X, a pair of Xeon E5-2687W processors and 64GB of RAM. The machine will be used mostly for editing videos in Adobe Premiere and was wondering if we should go with a 690 card or opt for the more expensive professional cards such as a Quadro 5000.
Would the Quadro card be significantly faster when rendering video? Or would the 690 do as well, or almost as well?
Thanks!
certain apps like solidworks, ce5, 3dmax, and others definantly are better on a quatro 5000. some features are actually enabled with the profesional card that are not available to use with the 690. having said that, it is a diminishing return sort of thing, so if you want to pay 3 times the money for 1.5 times the return in performance then I highly recomend it. basically if your rendering makes you money, go with the quatro. if you do it for fun then do the 690.
This machine will be used almost exclusively for Adobe Premiere, no Max, Maya or other rendering as far as I know. I have a friend who's attending SIGGRAPH and she asked an Nvidia engineer and the engineer said to go with the 690 if all the computer will be used for is [mostly] Adobe CS-6 stuff. Thanks for the input, much appreciated!
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