MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: No, they are not.

> They work. They aren't as good as a GeForce that costs half as much. I'm not spending
> $700-$4000 on graphics cards.

They are usually the same speed binned silicon with a slightly different BIOS on the card. The driver stack is usually tuned for graphical workflows not games. Sometimes the RAM will be clocked a bit different and a few extra features turned on/off, depending. On average the quadro will be slower on games (for the same gen card). The driver stack is not tuned for that. However, for gaming they tend to turn off the higher precision compute. Part of how the game path runs faster. Flip it around and use it for a CUDA sort of thing and the quadro will probably beat the game version of the card for what you are doing. Its just market segmentation. This is a fairly old review that shows it. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Can-you-game-on-an-NVIDIA-Quadro-GPU-604/

You are not paying that sort of money for a decent video card. You are paying for 'this API is borked in the 4th decimal position, fix it yesterday' and 'do not install extra things on this corporate server, we control everything'. Can you run games on them? Absolutely. They just are not configured for that use case.

Have not tried it lately but I think the 'geforce experience' can be uninstalled separately and it leaves the drivers behind? You do not get auto updates anymore and on the next reinstall I think it will put it back. Bit of a pain, but there you go... There are also a few services they like to install as well that do not really do anything useful.

Vas feels it is worth his time to pay to not have to mess with that sort of thing. I personally just leave it be. As my use case is probably different than his. Sounds like yours is cost. So you are going to be playing with the bundleware nvidia likes to put in.