Help me to choose graphic card for architecture rendering

[suniltanwani1]

I want to purchase a system for that i want graphic card

 

From seller i got recommendation MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Gaming (4GB) Graphics

Card

and today i chat with nvidia support they are recommending NVIDIA Nvidia Quadro 4000 2 GB DDR3 Graphics Card

 

My Main Purpose is 3d Rendering and software i use 3ds max, vray, photoshop

 

Please help to choose best option

[philippelamoureux]

If it's for vray or octane renderer, go 970, 980 or titanX. Hard to find but a gtx 780 6gb is apparently very nice for rendering. Forget Quadro, we don't really need it for rendering purposes.

 

I don't know much about AMD but Octane render 3 will support openCL and vray already support it afaik.

[alexanderbong]

vray does not utilize graphics card when rendering. so this choice is purely for a smooth view port performance.

that being said, if you are on a tight budget, you might want to divert more of your money into CPU or other things you might have neglected.

 

Quadro is a "pro" graphics card that is supposedly more stable and accurate. however, is it MUCH MUCH more expensive.

Geforce is a "consumer" graphics card that is as powerful as Quadro for a fraction of the cost.

 

Quadro is aimed towards multi-million dollar production studio or researchers that pays their employee a lot of money per hour. Any instability or inaccurate calculations (scientific uses) will cost them more money in the long run. For a "one-man-band" kind of use, this is obviously not the way to go.

[philippelamoureux]

Well, I figured he would like to use Vray RT since he asked for a gpu but Alexander is right if you use vray advanced (regular) then the gpu isn't going to be used except for the viewport.

[suniltanwani1]

Thanks Everyone for your best suggestions, so now i m going with gtx 970