Nubius
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ehh no....cards that work in programs like CAD aren't meant for gaming...these cards aren't meant for joe blow home buyer as well....as we've discussed they are for desktop workstations and doing a different kind of rendering compared to computer games.I know for a FACT that the price is higher because they don't move as much of the product. It's a simple law of economics.
Read the specs below it and it is pretty much common sense
The NVIDIA Quadro® FX 4400 sets a new bar for professional graphics, shattering the limits of performance, programmability, precision, and quality for professional CAD, DCC, and scientific applications
Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL shading language, and Microsoft HLSL
OpenGL 1.5 and DirectX 9.0 support
Open source compiler
Yes it's got support for DX9, but it's not because they are meant to play games at all.
Those cards dont work on the same kind of instructions
It has nothing to do with them not 'moving enough of them' or this so called 'simply economics' that you're blatantly wrong about.
Yeah of course they dont sell them like graphic cards because theres a crapload of gamers out there...but of places that use CAD and other such programs will buy those things in bulk for multiple work stations.