Help for Choosing: Quadro vs Firepro for Wobile Worstations

[hanser30]

Hi guys, I have stumblued into a problem that i can't figure out so far.
I have been looknig for a mobile workstation that can last me around 4 years and i decided that i was going to buy the next gen lenovo thinkpad with the 5th gen quad core processors but, I also saw other alternatives in dell and HP. I have seen that in HP and Dell somtimes they use AMD firepro GPUs and when i looked at the benchmarks, the amd gpu is faster even though it is way cheaper. The firepro m6100 is as fast as the k4100m, which is a very expensive card.

I would like to know the difference between nvidia Quadro cards and AMD Firepro cards, what i should consider, and which one should I choose and why.

Thanks.

 

[k1114]

What software will you be using?

 

[hanser30]

I will be using solidworks and Autodesk Inventor.

 

[jossrik]

You can totally ignore this, but from now on I'm referring to professional grade laptop sollutions as Wobile Worstations. That's gotta be in the top ten of best typos ever.

 

[hanser30]

You can totally ignore this, but from now on I'm referring to professional grade laptop sollutions as Wobile Worstations. That's gotta be in the top ten of best typos ever.

what do you mean?

 

[k1114]

There's nothing really worth noting when talking about the differences. Other than being graphics cards, everything is different but this doesn't matter much. Those software don't really prefer or need one over the other so go with whatever is more performance. They're very close and the m6100 actually leads a bit and is cheaper so I'd say go with that.

 

[okcnaline]

OpenCL seems to be the way to go, especially with the fact a HD 7990 (roughly a R9 290) does better than a Titan or a K5000, for that matter.

http/www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-workstation-graphics-card,3493-7.html
Note: I am aware this is a laptop question, and that the stuff I've been talking about is desktop-based, but it probably is still relevant. It's about the benchmark.

 

[hanser30]

There's nothing really worth noting when talking about the differences. Other than being graphics cards, everything is different but this doesn't matter much. Those software don't really prefer or need one over the other so go with whatever is more performance. They're very close and the m6100 actually leads a bit and is cheaper so I'd say go with that.

Thanks, I will keep looking through and decide which laptop to buy. By the way, one last question:
Which brand would you recomend for what I am doing? Quality? Reliability? Durability?
I am between Lenvovo, Dell, and HP.

 

[hanser30]

OpenCL seems to be the way to go, especially with the fact a HD 7990 (roughly a R9 290) does better than a Titan or a K5000, for that matter.

http/www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-workstation-graphics-card,3493-7.html
Note: I am aware this is a laptop question, and that the stuff I've been talking about is desktop-based, but it probably is still relevant. It's about the benchmark.

I have heard of openCL before but I have no experience with it. I really don't know how it works. Maybe I will look up a video later or read an article to understand how to use it.

Thanks.

 

[k1114]

Neither of those software support opencl so that doesn't matter. Viewports are opengl and directx and have no gpu acceleration beyond that. That's why before I said, they don't prefer or need one over the other. Not to mention, you can see the benchmarks are a pretty mixed bag of amd vs nvidia.

I've really never had an issue with lenovo, dell or hp but many others will say otherwise. Lenovo has been ranked higher afaik.

 

[velo3100]

I know that autodesk like quadrino cards as I use 3ds max. I don't know about solidworks though.
As for brands, get a hp or lenovo. Heard bad things about dell from people from this forum.

 

[hanser30]

Thank you all for your help.