Rolf:
Quadro cards are generally performing much better under 3DE than consumer "GeForce" cards, because NVidia artificially cripples line rendering performance under these consumer cards...
Karp:
So for Unreal Engine, GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 are very good. Would P4000 and M4000 be worse for Unreal Engine than RTX 2080?
Rolf:
Why does NVidia artificially limit line rendering? From what I have seen, I really don't trust any video card with 3DE, besides M4000. Is the low 3DE performance of other cards just due to Line Rendering issues? Which cards, besides M4000, are good with 3DE?
I am just fine with the M4000, but as time goes by the vfx studios will want to use these newer Unreal Engine cards. Which video cards are good with 3DE, and why? The nVidiaTitan card is a disaster with 3DE.
Karp
I have a GTX 2070 for my personal Unreal Engine Windows 10 machine, because I don't do 3DE at home.
Rolf:
So for Unreal Engine, GeForce RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 are very good. Would P4000 and M4000 be worse for Unreal Engine than RTX 2080?I have no idea, I don't use UE. There are so many gfx cards out there that it is impossible for us to keep track. Usually, NVidia cards are running quite well - we do not use anything else in the office. Again, Quadro cards are much faster in terms of line rendering, a discipline which is highly being used for 3DE.
NVidia "officials" claim that the difference in line rendering performance between Quadro and GeForce comes through hardware, but I doubt that this is true. They will most likely manufacture the same chips for quadro and geforce, and then cripple their consumer brands in disciplines which are much more important to professional apps (in contrast to gaming), such as line rendering - unimportant for gaming/consumers, but very important for professionals (CAD/3D).
Otherwise there would be no point in buying these crazy expensive Quadro cards!
Karp:
Why does NVidia artificially limit line rendering? From what I have seen, I really don't trust any video card with 3DE, besides M4000. Is the low 3DE performance of other cards just due to Line Rendering issues? Which cards, besides M4000 are good with 3DE?
Rolf:
Yes, line rendering IS the main issue. If you import a large LIDAR into 3DE, you will notice a huge performance difference on GeForce and Quadro cards. As soon as you disable "line rendering" (disable "attr.editor->3d model->show lines") this performance difference is gone!
I am just fine with M4000, but as time goes by the vfx studios will want to use these newer Unreal Engine cards. Which video cards are good with 3DE, and why? The nVidiaTitan card is a disaster with 3DE.
Quadro. That's all I can say - we do not have the resources to do any fancy gfx card comparison tests. But, most likely the best gfx card for 3DE will be the fastest Quadro available!
No, you don't need to do a comparison. I once tested nVidia K2000, it was okay, but not enough VRAM.
BTW, the myriad nVidia models are confusing. But it appears that our hero M4000 is around the same price as the RTX2070 game engine (Unreal Engine), maybe $1,200. I guess that I could download the PLE to my RTX2070 home machine for a 3DE LIDAR test.
So we know that M4000 is excellent and that P4000 (my Scanline) is probably good. And we know that K2000 doesn't have enough VRAM (4gigs). Do you know what the difference is between the M4000 and P4000? Are there any other Quadros that you know are excellent for 3DE?
On our homepage there is a section "tech. specs" - but we simply state that "Quadro is recommended". Actually, every NVidia card works good (as far as we know). However, if you have to work with huge LIDAR scans, then Quadro will be superior to GeForce!
For a direct comparison between all of NVidia's gfx cards/chips take a look here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_Nvidia_graphics_ processing_units#Quadro_Mxxx_ series
According to this doc, the P4000 should be better than the M4000 (at least on paper)!