Workstation video card: Quadro or GeForce?

Jasconius

I have been tasked with researching a new workstation to get myself at work, but I am unsure of what sort of graphics card would be best suited to my tasks.

I deal with a lot of uncompressed video, as well as high res images (albeit occasionally). Would things like video and high res imagery be more suitably handled by a video card such as a Quadro (which as I understand is primarily for 3D work) or a typical desktop graphics card such as a GeForce?

Kthx.

*edit* Also I'm working off of 2 monitors at very high resolution so there's a lot of desktop space to render too.

Daemonion

A friend of mine was doing 3D/photoshop work on a 7800 for a few years and only noticed slowdowns when he included multiple real-time light sources.

He was working on one monitor, 1920x1200. He also wanted to be able to game here and there.


If you don't plan on any gaming, what-so-ever, I don't see why you wouldn't get a dedicated 3D card, though.

Jasconius

Yeah, this is an office computer, so no gaming.

In my reading I just can't see anything about the Quadros that make them a superior work station card beyond the 3D rendering stuff (which I don't do).

And they are a bit more expensive as I recall.

gneGne

Yeah unless you doing 3D rendering I would get the normal geforce. Quadros are quite expensive as well, I think they can go up to 1000$. The 9600GT should suffice enough to put some video workload off the CPU.