The Quadro is much better than the previous card which was an Nvidia GT730 - but rendering is still slow. So I'll use this for a while and upgrade again.

All depends on what kind of rendering you are talking about...

If you are using a GPU powered render engine and you want to spend under 700-750USD you have only ONE valid choice : NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti!
Or if you can spend more you can build a powerful rig with a pair of 1080 Ti.
But in that case you have to build a very powerful rig with a very efficient cooling system and a powerful CPU/Mother Board.

But if you really NEED the Quadro line and want to get (almost) the same speed of a single 1080 Ti (and even better) you are forced to buy a super expensive Quadro P6000 that costs about 6K USD!!!!


I have an overclocked version of a "Gtx 1080 Ti" and I usually use Thea Render with the "Presto" engine that leverages on the GPU and it's very very powerful and fast.

Hi Marco,

Thanks - I had a gaming card before the Quadro but it required power - does the 1080Ti? The problem is although have a fairly powerful computer (quad core, 32 gigs or RAM) it isn't made for upgrading and there are no extra power cables - the power supply could be replaced - but would rather try and find a card that doesn't require extra power.

I think this is not a serious problem if you can spend some extra money.

With about 100 USD you can easily get a serious PC case with a lot of room and a good "80+ gold" power supply of 700-750 watt.

Most of the 1080 Ti around have a TDP of 250W.

This is my config (May 2017), and as I said is very good for me because for rendering I don't leverage on CPU but on the GPU 1080 Ti.

Cases Cooler Master ATX MasterBox 5 (but yo can get a much better case)
Mb Intel 1151 MSI Z270 SLI PLUS Chipset Z270
Intel Core i7-7700K (4,20Ghz/4,50Ghz) 1151 BOX KABY LAKE
memory D4 3000 32GB C15 Corsair Ven K2
750W EVGA SuperNOVA GQ
SSD SAMSUNG 960 EVO NVMe SSD, PCIe 3.0 M.2 Typ 2280 - 500 GB
HDD int. 3,5 2TB Seagate Barracuda
Svga MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Armor 11G OC Boost: 1645mhz
Cpu liquid cooler Corsair Hydro H100i v2

Marco (mkdm)