Quadro + GeForce

Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:57 am

Hey there,

I have a Quadro K5000 for my main display in my workstation, no other GPUs in there, others are in network nodes.

The Quadro is awesome for viewport polygon handling speed, far better than GeForce in my experience (and benchmarks in reviews online back this up, despite what LW users generally say about there being no difference - there is and it's huge) but it sucks for Octane rendering.

If I added a second GPU, as a GeForce to the workstation, would Octane pick that up ok? I presume the nVidia drivers allow the mix and match but I don't even know to be honest.

Thanks,
Dom

Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:08 pm

Thats no problem. Just download the right K5000 drivers and you should be set. Myself I tried it a few times, works like a charm.

How many poly`s are you handling with it? I`m looking to get a quadro2000/4000, but so far a gtx590/80 seems to do the job as well

Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:42 pm

whersmy wrote:Thats no problem. Just download the right K5000 drivers and you should be set. Myself I tried it a few times, works like a charm.

How many poly`s are you handling with it? I`m looking to get a quadro2000/4000, but so far a gtx590/80 seems to do the job as well

Quadro 2000....LOL dont bother

I have one on my shelf....
In octane render performance was about 15% of 1 GTX 470
A quadro 4000 wont do much either...equal to a gtx 550 maybe 1/3 the performance of a 580

Stay away from quadros for octane....great cards but performance for the money is terrible

They are great for lots of polygons in OpenGL and for 10bit video out.....but thats about it

But ya...mixing drivers is no problem in windows 7 and up...

In windows 10, do not combine fermi architecture (4/5 series) with more current cards....they will not run together (problem being fixed...but could be 6 months)
a k5000 is kepler with wddm 2.0.....so best not to try running it with any fermi card.....generation 7 and up is fine, and 680/690 should work...just make sure it is NOT WDDM 1.3

This is a win 10 problem only....win 7/8 you can mix and match as much as you want