Best work station cards quaddro or 1080ti?

[R9mpo]

Hi all,

I'm looking to build a work station for processing vast amounts of photogrammetry and mobile mapping.

I'm trying to find out the real difference between using a quadro or fire pro card to using a gtx1080ti?

There's no video or image editing involved just data processing.

Will be programs such as pix4d, lss etc being used although their not widely used I'm hoping someone could give me their opinions on the benefits of each.

Thanks in advance

 

[Armageus]

Looking at the following, I would say it doesn't matter much:
https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/203405619-Use-of-the-GPU-in-Pix4Dmapper


as it looks like it uses CUDA on any Nvidia GPU to provide a speed up

 

[R9mpo]

Looking at the following, I would say it doesn't matter much:
https://support.pix4d.com/hc/en-us/articles/203405619-Use-of-the-GPU-in-Pix4Dmapper


as it looks like it uses CUDA on any Nvidia GPU to provide a speed up

Annoyingly the other software we use specifically mentions the quaddro cards. Are they just higher binned cards?

 

[Armageus]

Annoyingly the other software we use specifically mentions the quaddro cards. Are they just higher binned cards?

Nope they generally have better floating point performance (ideal for GPU acceleration of some tasks), and have professional certified drivers for specific software

 

[R9mpo]

Nope they generally have better floating point performance (ideal for GPU acceleration of some tasks), and have professional certified drivers for specific software

So for the software I'm looking to use hardly worth it?

 

[Armageus]

So for the software I'm looking to use hardly worth it?

Depends on what the speedup in the other software is in the scheme of things (e.g. if it provides a 70% speedup that saves you 3 hours a day, only you can decide if it's worth it)

 

[R9mpo]

Depends on what the speedup in the other software is in the scheme of things (e.g. if it provides a 70% speedup that saves you 3 hours a day, only you can decide if it's worth it)

Well any time saved would be a huge help.

But looking at benchmarks there's no difference between a rx480 and an wx7100.

Am I just missing the point?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

some reason, consumer cards work better then workstation for that program , gtx 1080ti beats a Titan V...

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Well any time saved would be a huge help.

But looking at benchmarks there's no difference between a rx480 and an wx7100.

Am I just missing the floating point?