PNY NVIDIA Quadro P620—Realizing Demanding Visual Computing WORKFLOW Performance

I purchased this card as an upgrade to an older slimline PC I'm refurbishing for office use, as the system's original Intel integrated graphics were incapable of driving a connected 4K monitor at 60Hz and provided no GPU acceleration to applications like Photoshop. Due to system constraints, my requirements were a single-slot card with a cooler that stayed within those dimensions, a low-profile form factor (including faceplate), power draw around 45 watts, and DisplayPort output capable of 4K or better.This card met my needs and provided a notable boost in performance alongside the other upgra

This is a great card for a Plex server and transcoding. Both encode and decode are now able to hardware accelerated. Conversions that used to run at 1-2x normal playback speed are now running at up to 13x speed depending on the video.If you have limited bandwidth to watch remotely, you can transcode to smaller bitrate files and maximize your connection much more quickly with this card. Sure, there are cards that can do it even faster, but for this price point this GPU is a good value.

It works just fine as a productivity card/2D/Soho setup. Physical installation was easy, but the driver setup is confusing under Windows 7 64 bit. I had to look in several different places, because the driver package kept identifying itself as a mobile package, not for the desktop version. I doubt it would work at all for gaming. I can't speak to ease of installation under any other operating system. Once I got the drivers installed, it has been trouble free to use.

Been an amazing budget card so far

Put this in a Dell Optiplex 9020 and made a beast! Of course, it's not the high-end Quadro, but it does an excellent job with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Ultimaker Cura, DesignCAD 3D Max, and even light SolidWorks use! Absolutely no complaints! Having SSD and 16GB RAM makes all the difference too.

Installed in my Fedora 28 workstation to drive a QHD ultrawide. After installing the nvidia Linux drivers everything runs super smooth.All I use is Chrome, tilix, and freerdp. It was more important to have a smooth visual experiance than anything else. The GDDR5 RAM really helps with this.Tip; Make sure to switch power modes in the nvidia console to always run at full clock speed. I find it makes for a mire consistent experience.

Less powerful than expected

As an experienced designer and technician, I was surprised that the P620 was simply not up to anything beyond Adobe CC suite. I bought for its workstation applications, but from the start it had problems seeing fairly new 1080 monitors on an extended desktop. It struggled with Windows Media Center TV, MS word, but worst of all it crashed Cinema 4D, which was why I bought it to begin with. All I can say is the performance was too spotty to depend on for work. It was installed by the book and showed no errors. It simply under performed the video card it replaced. I exchanged it for a GeForce GTX