Do I really need a Quadro?

[Blakester122]

I am looking at purchasing new PC's for a couple of users here and doing the price comparison it is a lot cheaper to get a better GeForce card than a Quadro setup. Does anyone know if Revit and AutoCAD will run well on the newer GeForce Cards or even a Radeon?

We will be using Revit 2011 and 2012 in a 64bit environment.

[cdatechguy]

Depends on what level your going to use Revit....for lots of folk a GeForce works just fine... I compared a GTX 580 and Quadro 2000 recently...okay, the 580 was probably overkill, but it was fun to play with.

[patricks]

Quadro FX cards? Absolutely not necessary since Revit switched from OpenGL graphics acceleration to DirectX. I know of quite a few people who report good results with GTX cards (which share some of the same components with Quadro FX cards at a fraction of the cost), and I myself have an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB that works fine with Revit. I personally prefer nVIDIA over ATI but that's just me. I hope to switch out to a GTX card some time soon.

This 2GB GTX 560 card would probably do everything you need and more for under $300: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814261099

[gtarch]

It does depend on what you need to do.

We run Revit on some real low-level video cards, for simple day-to-day production work and it runs fine.

[sinc]

What would make you want to go with a Quadro as opposed to a GeForce? For example, are there rendering engines in Revit that work on Quadros but not on GeForce?