We’re having a PC upgrade in our office and although we are generally an engineering / CAD office a couple of us use our machines for Unity visualisation and animations, so I put in a request for RTX 2080 cards, thinking we’d be able to take advantage of the new lighting features in Unity.
Now, our IT guy has talked to our supplier and they’ve come back saying they can’t supply PCs with gaming cards such as the RTX2080, but they can provide Quadro RTX 4000 cards.
Does anyone know if we’d be able to use the Quadro cards for the Unity RTX features (such as seen in the Unity Experimental HDRP DXR project)?
The Quadro RTX 4000 is effectively an underclocked RTX 2070. Outside of CAD viewport rendering, the Quadro RTX 4000 will be noticeably slower than a Geforce RTX 2080, or even an RTX 2070.
If your main reason for getting an RTX GPU is to be able to use DXR, I would highly suggest going for an Quadro RTX 5000 or Quadro RTX 6000. Realistically the RTX 4000 isn’t going to be fast enough to use with DXR without significantly sacrificing quality or framerate. Using multiple Quadro RTX 4000 GPUs aren’t an option as DXR is limited to single GPU rendering. The Titan RTX is another option, I would even recommend the Titan RTX over the Quadro RTX 5000 as it’ll absolutely crush it in performance in all but a handful of applications (even for CAD) for about the same price. The Titan RTX and Quadro RTX 6000 are the same GPU, the Quadro just uses slower ECC memory, but as a non Quadro card it might not be something your supplier is willing to supply.
But, shorter answer: Yes, the Quadro RTX 4000 should work with the HDRP DXR features.