# which chipset? FFT over CUDA

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/which-chipset-fft-over-cuda/1124>\
**Category:** CUDA Programming and Performance\
**Created:** [July 13, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/which-chipset-fft-over-cuda/1124 "2007-07-13T21:04:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulocortes](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@paulocortes](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/paulocortes)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/which-chipset-fft-over-cuda/1124/1 "2007-07-13T21:04:09Z")

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Dear All

I am involve in algorithmic development for radio-interferometry. I would like to experiment with  
GPUs, but I am not sure which chipset to pick. Is any advantadge, from the calculation point  
of view, to pick QUADRO over Gforce?

best

Paulo

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**Author:** ![seibert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/seibert/32/520688_2.png) [@seibert](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/seibert)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/which-chipset-fft-over-cuda/1124/2 "2007-07-13T21:41:33Z")

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The Quadro 5600 costs 5x more for very similar floating point performance but 2x the on-board memory of the GeForce 8800 GTX. It sounds like NVIDIA does better quality control on the Quadro line than the 3rd party companies do for the gamer cards, so you do get something extra for your money.