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Consumer cards have multiple monitor outputs too. Frankly, the rest of the stuff is scaremongering. Consumer class GPUs run gaming loads which stress the therm

Consumer cards have multiple monitor outputs too. Frankly, the rest of the stuff is scaremongering. Consumer class GPUs run gaming loads which stress the thermal envelope far more than say, Autodesk or SolidWorks. It's all FUD to sell someone a piece of hardware at 300% margin, and cognitive dissonance from those people who consider themselves "Pros" to have paid for a placebo. With the exception of NVidia cards with GPGPU tuned architecture (e.g. double precision FP at lower penalty) there is precious little advantage a workstation class GPU has. It's the same mentality of "no one ever get fired for buying IBM" as if buying the "Pro" version nets you any real advantage.

raverbashing 13y ago
"Consumer cards have multiple monitor outputs too" I mean something like this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs-compare-product-specs.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvs-compare-product-specs.html "Oh but you can add another video card", not always, this is needed in some cases (a niche case, true) For the other aspects, your guess is as good as mine. Sure, games stress the card more than Autocad, but maybe things like Maya put more (or different) stresses on it I don't disagree with you, I would use a regular video card first to see if it meets my needs. Now, for CUDA or other calculation apps, I would go for the Pro video cards, specifically because I would have someone to complain if it didn't work the way it should. And that's usually why things cost more sometimes.