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by khedoros1 3363 days ago
In the past, I remember being told that the fixed-pipeline cards could push a ton of vertices, but that they couldn't hand the same volume of textures and rendering effects as a consumer card.

One of the first things on the FirePro and Quadro Wikipedia pages is that the actual graphics chip in the hardware is the same as consumer levels. Aside from hardware tweaks like ECC RAM and possibly different display connectors, I think that the biggest differences are the workload that the drivers are optimized for and reliability guarantees for the results that the hardware produces.