Quote Originally Posted by boost View Post
2) I'm not sure if this is still the case, but iirc, back in the day there was a difference between gaming cards and workhorse cards. I'm not sure why this would be, or if it is still the case, but your high end video card may be high end for running modeling software, but not for gaming.
I believe this is still true. I looked into it a year or two ago, and the gaming cards are more geared towards speed, and the professional cards are more geared towards accuracy. But I believe that's really only applicable to real-time rendering -- I didn't find anything that said rendering a final image from Maya, as an example, was significantly faster on a professional card over a similarly designed gaming card.