PNY NVIDIA Quadro K2200 Graphics Card VCQK2200-PB

When using MasterCAM or Solidworks, videocard choice is very important. The reason you shouldn't just use a stock or gaming card for CAD/CAM, even if it's GPU stats are better, is the software companies write specific optimized video drivers for their products (this is a good thing). That's why for engineering workstations the NVidia Quadro line and it's lateral AMD competitors give better performance. Quadro cards can be very expensive, so it's always cost-benefit quandary. You can spend thousands on a great CAD/CAM graphics card, but the speed benefits drop off at a certain point. We've found the 4GB Quadro K2200 is reasonably priced and provides solid improvements to our engineering PC's. Obviously, if you can afford a higher model Quadro, go for it, but this one is solid for latest version of MasterCAM and Solidworks. Time is money, and you don't want an engineer of CNC operator waiting around for a part to render or an optimal toolpath calculation to finish. Save them 30 minutes a day by getting a better graphics card, and that really adds up over the year.

Not much to say that isn't in documentation. Card was bought as an upgrade to old 3700 series, which can't accommodate 4K screens The K architecture is a plus, but not apparent to this user. This card drives a ultrawide 3400x1440 screen perfectly, and can be configured to make the one extra wide monitor look like two separate ones. I could likely throw on a third 3K monitor if I had the need. Tips: remember to uninstall previous card driver software before installing card. It will drive the display in basic mode while you install the up to date driver.

Purchased a few of these to replace some of our aging Quadro FX 1800's. For the AutoCAD, and Revit applications we use them for, they noticeably outperform they older counterparts. No additional power pins is always a nice touch too. We've tried gaming cards at similar price points, but got tired of dealing with supported hardware issues with autodesk software. You definately get what you pay for in these professional graphics cards.

So far so good as it delivers on all levels as advertised HOWEVER I purchased the generation prior to this one (i.e. 2000) and I got only two years of use out of it before it died a violent death. I never seem to EVER get more then 4-5 years out of Nvidia cards but a mere two? Not good.

I am Revit user and I am working with Revit version 2013-2016. Last few weeks, I had problem with Revit 2013, it was crashing. I checked out my old video card (NVIDIA K600) on Autodesk hardware recommendation for Revit version 2013-2016. The K600 video card is an Autodesk recommended card for each Revit version. I think, it is apply only if you have one version installed on your system. Because I am a heavy Revit user and all version installed on my workstation, I decided to swap the old K600 to K2200. (I use the Dell Precision T3610 model) The Revit 2013 problem is solved and I do not have any problem with Revit 2013 and other Revit version. I think Autodesk recommendation is partially valid, newer Revit version and multiple version installed on same system should suggest better video card with newer processor and more memory on board than K600. The new K2200 works perfect, easy to install. The K2200 card works much better with all Revit application and faster with regenerating 3D views. I would recommend this card for heavy CAD/Revit workstation.

NVIDIA GFORCE boards have tremendous bang for the buck. BUT, NVIDIA considers OpenGL based stereo rendering to be a "professional" task. Thus, quad buffered rendering is disabled from OpenGL on GEFORCE boards. (Interestingly, you can do this for DirectX with a GEFORCE). Thus the only way to render stereo with OpenGL and an NVIDIA product is to also have a QUADRO in your system. The K2200 has price / performance that makes it ideal for "just enough" QUADRO to be able to do stereo in OpenGL while still preserving your wallet. I can do my simulation on a high-end GFORCE and the rendering on the QUADRO to get the best of both worlds.

I recently purchased 4 of these for my T3500 Dell work stations. I run them 24/7 as GPUs running Seti. I also render video. Not a hiccup or a problem. These are in the lower mid level of Nvidia Graphics Solutions. They fit into the card slots without requiring extra power hook ups. I'd purchase these again and recommend them for their intended uses.

We were in a rush for this graphics card. We made a special request to expedite the shipment. Our request was granted and once the product was received and installed it worked very well. We are very pleased with the purchase experience.

Seems to be a used card, has broken down not long after purchase.

I got this card specifically for solid works. I had another nvidia $800 graphics card that was physically 2x the size of this one and took alot of power. This card runs solid works 8x faster for some reason and it looks like a dinky card. I'm VERY happy with this purchase. On a side note, the box within the amazon box was really beat up but everything works.

Working fine. It's New grafic card. Value for money.

Great card for the work I do (mainly photography, video and basic CAD.) Main reason I purchased this is to support 10bit colour on my 4k display which only workstation card drivers support. A little overkill most of the time though.

I purchased this older budget card for a graphics arts based workstation. It's performing perfectly well for a great price. Very happy with it.