1Gb FirePro M4000 VS 2Gb Invidia Quadro K3000M

[albertocosta]

I have to buy a new laptop (I travel a lot so, as some of you could suggest me, I cannot buy a workstation), and I have chosen the HP 8770w and I'm trying to configurate it according to my needs (I'm an architect so I mainly use autocad, 3dmax, photoshop and only few times video editing), and with a budget of around 1800 dollars. I've picked as CPU Intel i7-3820, 16 Gb of RAM, an 120 Gb SSD and as GPU the 1Gb FirePro M4000.

About the last one I'm wondering if it's enough and there is a lot of difference with the 2Gb Invidia Quadro K3000M (well 650 dollars more expensive and so out of my budget)?

[Umesh Raut]

That nVidia chip would come in handy in your renderings because Max is (and so are many other similar programs) optimized to use their cuda and physx instruction sets. An unfair advantage though, but yes, you get the extra bang for your (forcibly) spent buck.

[albertocosta]

Thanks the reply,

 

For that amount of money I can wait a couple of minutes more for each renders, what I'm wondering, about the two GPU, is when I will work in the viewport there will be a noticeable difference of the smoothness.