Quadro cards are recommended for Avid editing workstations. But they are quite expensive. My present card (9600GT) can't be made to emulate a Quadro, so I wonder if there is some other GeForce card that can do that and still being on the market. Any suggestions?
And how do I find out which cards are based on the G80 GPU? Are there any new ones that are? Is there a list of them?
I don't think you can buy any new G80 based cards anymore. I believe the first gen 8800GTX (640MB and 896MB models only) was running on G80 chip, or you have to get anything before that.
Ahh.. No. The G80 is an old GPU. You can check out what cards use the G80 or older GPU @ Tech ARP - Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 23.5
Unfortunately, no. However, if you check our Workstation Graphics Card Comparison Guide, you will see that NVIDIA is still using the G80 GPU to power Quadros like the Quadro FX 4600 and the Quadro FX 5600. Those are still pretty powerful workstation cards.
emulating the quadro is actually defeating the sole purpose of utilizing a quadro. Like xeon/opteron, you don't buy the quadro because of its feature, but for the amount of validation work the manufacturers have done to the hardware. the extra amount of money you pay guarantees you correct data. when you ask for 1, you get 1. Not 70/30 1:0. the hardware doesn't have to do the correction.
