LETTERS WE TACKLE TOUGH READER QUESTIONS ON…
> Dream Machine Storage
> Buyer’s Remorse
> GeForce vs Quadro
Gaming & Dev Work
Max PC, I intend to build a system for 2 primary purposes, to play the latest AAA games at max settings and to develop AAA games using Blender, GoDot, Gimp, Inkscape, and MakeHuman. What video card would I need for this? The latest Ti or a Quadro or both?
–Chris Williams
EDITOR ZAK STOREY RESPONDS: Hi Chris, well at the time of writing, sourcing any form of card is like trying to find a 7nm transistor in a haystack, and that doesn’t look likely to change any time soon. But nonetheless you raise an interesting question.
Realistically there’s not a massive difference between a GeForce card and something like a Quadro. Traditionally, what a Quadro or enterprise-styled card would get you was access to way better customer support from Nvidia directly (if you’re having problems with its drivers, for example), more memory (which can be a massive boon in certain workloads), a maxed out GPU die (for slightly more
