So far keeping up with my graphics heavy drafting files much better than the 4080 and 7900X I used previously.

So... to start of with, the Quadro RTX 6000 is comparable in game performance to a GeForce RTX 3080, given that you should not buy this card if all you really do is game.

The RTX 6000 was released around the same time the GeForce 2000 series cards were released. But unlike the 2000 series which were not able to compete with the older 1000 series, the new Quadro RTX 6000 was able to out preform the older Quadro P6000 in almost every way, for, at the time, a much lower price. This, plus a more modern and stable ray tracing architecture, made it a fairly decent upgrade.

Fast forward to 2021 at the height of the crypto-boom and I need to build a workstation for my job. Thankfully, all the graphics cards people were building were gaming GPUs, and not workstation ones. So... the price tag for the RTX 6000 was actually unchanged, and is still unchanged today if you know where to look. The reason for this is because not even miners are stupid enough to buy a bunch of $4000+ graphics cards for a mining rig.

This card... is something else.

The fist thing I noticed when I popped it into the build was that it was... quiet, really quiet. It made about as much noise as the CPU cooler fans, and considering that I was running a Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4... that's saying something! The second thing I noticed was the stunning lack of how much I was using the card. In simple 3D modeling programs I was barely scraping around 30% of actual card usage, and these were on massive assemblies and detailed surfaces and models. And the third thing I noticed, was that I made the right choice. A slow PC is the main cause for engineering work to go extremely slow, and in many cases, being cheap can be extremely costly. Buy putting down the dough to get this card has saved a lot of time and money in terms of being able to get work done.

I am going to go back to what I said at the beginning. This is NOT a gaming card, this is meant to be used for WORK, and this is bolstered buy the fact that, though it runs like a 3080 playing games, the RTX 6000 will absolutely curb-stomp a 3080 once you open up anything else. Adobe Premieres GPU acceleration is able to utilize the Quadro architecture and makes video editing a breeze without crashing adobe premiere. The card is able to out preform the 3d scanning software I run on, and the program itself gives up and says there are too many data points for it to handle before the GPU bats an eye. Functions that would normally crash Fusion 360 on any gaming regular card are laughably easy for the RTX 6000 to handle and this allows me to make more complex shapes and drawings without having to worry about unsaved progress being lost.

This card, is for unbridled productivity, and if your job is to be productive, then I would highly recommend putting the money down on a good workstation card to save headache and time. I love how well this card runs that I am considering replacing my 2070 super in my home build with this one so that I don't have to deal with choppy video lag in premiere, and better performance in 3D modeling and 2d drawing in my free time.

You could opt for a RTX 8000, but when I have only ever reached the cap of this GPU only once or twice when using it for various computations and work, this card is for lack of a better term, more than enough as is.