PNYNVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 - The World’S First Ray Tracing GPU

I now own both the Quadro P4000 and Quadro RTX 4000 – so, I’ll try to help with your Professional decision making. Gamers should refer to Geforce RTX & GTX reviews:From research and what I have experienced personally – Quadro leans heavily towards OpenGL stability and accuracy – especially, when matched with ECC memory and multi-core CPUs (greater than 4 cores IMO). The exception is single-core performance when modeling (CPU architecture – which I favor Intel in this category).The RTX 4000 is unique – because it unlocks FP16 performance normally reserved for Gaming cards (hmmm..). And, every program I have based on Direct 3D performance is on steroids now.**UPDATE: My favorite programs (SolidWorks 2019, **Solid Edge 2020, Adobe Premiere/Photoshop,** Keyshot 9, Blender) – all love this new RTX 4000 card (in one form or another):>SolidWorks 2019 (heavy on OpenGL and some D3D) – the performance increase is ridiculous (thank you Dassault) – especially viewport performance, animation, and rendering. Go bigger than the 4000 – if you need scientific data / accuracy. Dassault is paying attention (IMO)>** Solid Edge 2020 (OpenGL with acceptance to D3D) – is stable and functional – WELL DONE SIEMENS - the newest version is a treasure (Simulation & Generative design are incredible). RTX 4000 and P4000 are both good choices>** Keyshot 9 Render (Holy God!!!) – I have to change this review - because the new Keyshot 9 is amazing with GPU / CPU rendering that will blow your socks off. The RTX 4000 is a beast at GPU rendering (Thank You Keyshot Team)>Blender (Direct 3D heavy) – models are much more fluent, viewports load and manipulate better, Mesh conversions and animations are incredible (thanks to FP16 performance gains). A lot easier to work between Parametric (files with high triangles) and Polygonal (files with low triangles) with the RTX>**Adobe (Everything You Got) – A lot more support for RTX since my last review. Adobe will not be silenced in this revolution. The RTX 4000 is a strong performer with Adobe products.OpenGL (professionals): is used extensively in the fields of computer-aided design (CAD), virtual reality, scientific visualization, information visualization, flight simulation, and video games. [Wikipedia]Direct3D (gamers & professionals now): is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games. [Wikipedia]Please do your research – and, I hope this helps the newbies looking for the Quadro experience

Both my daughters got married this year and I made them very nice video's of their 800+ largeformat professional photos that my old computer couldn't do with Proshow 9 Producer. The old computer was pretty strong in video creation until I tried to do this huge job. This card wasn't blazing fast but it smoothly handled the task without giving any errors like "ran out of memory" which I got with my old computer that I built myself specifically geared towards video creation. I finally got 2 beautiful keepsake videos of each wedding and hopefully these will be passed down through the future generations. I'm not a gamer but tried Crysis on it and it worked well. I also use Vegas Pro and that works well so I'm happy with it.

Once set up works really well and at a good price. The original install included a black screen for quite a while, then several reboots from an unfinished boot and finally after a long time it finished the install and has worked well since quickly booting up. It took so much time the first time to boot I almost returned it.

I am not a gamer... Now that that is out of the way. I use this card with Blender, Maya, Unity, and Adobe Dimension, as well as various other multimedia software for video/audio like Adobe Illustrator, Davinci Resolve, and Steinberg Cubase. Overall, I am very pleased with the no-hassle performance of this card, along with the very fast real-time render performance I get in Blender and Unity. It carries a load well, and the drivers are rock solid, which was important for me. I had several driver issues with my previous Radeon RX 5700 XT with Win 10 Pro. For reference, my CPU is an Intel i9-10990k and my MB is an Asus ROG Strix z490-e.

I regret getting a expesive tech item from Amazon after this purchase. I personally did not know much about computers. however it sat for about 1.5-2 months before the our IT tech built the workstation. We Imediatly asked if we can return it. the seller kept saying no! and he guarentees its real... Well PNY can not and they will not warrienty it because there is no documents and the numbers did not match to their system. so i could not register this. we have not used it for 4-5 months and hardly done any Cad drawings it had now bottlenecked and showed down significantly. screen flickering, fan full high throttle. the IT guy reset it he said it is weird and would get a new card so i guess we are out $900 because we purchased it Via amazon. We though it was directly from PNY because there products are at the top and it was prime. last time i purchase anything expensive and tech from amazon unless sold by amazon. 3rd party sellers suck. it was brand new or opened and they would not return it at 40 days that's when a pro opened it and said i'm not sure about this card! I'm not going to straight say it was a fake but it there was something weird about it. PNY said they can not determine if its a fake unless i send it in. So now we have to buy a new card and spend around $2K so 3k thanks to this seller.

Took a little doing to get it set up in a Razer Core X Chroma egpu. Works great. The VirtualLink port is handy to drive a portable usb-c monitor (also works with other usb-c hardware such as a usb-c flash drive).The 3D virtualization software that was unusable before on my laptop is now faster than my workstation at work.

I used my computer mostly for Photography, and have appreciated the reliability of the Quadro series. My older Quadro P2000 was more than satisfactory for running Photoshop and Lightroom, however a program called Topaz Sharpen AI taxed its speed. I purchased the newer RTX 4000, and speed went up by 3X. A "stabilize" sharpening of a 24MP photo used to take about 3 minutes, but now takes just under a minute. The RTX 4000 still a one-slot card which I appreciate, although it does take an external power connector, unlike the slower P2000. I'm pleased with the purchase and the large speed improvement in Topaz Sharpen AI.