Most of the people is purely taking Quadro’s skyhigh price seriously but not the driver. In fact, hardware are almost identical, what really matters is the driver and stability accordingly.
In my experience Quadro are far more stable than consumer cards especially on workstations with very intensive loads. For example, in IDC industry, there’s a massive budget difference between stability 99%, 99.9% and 99.99%.
End of the day it still depends on your risk assessment, i.e. disruption. If I’m working on DIY project at home I wouldn’t mind it’s Quadro, GTX or Intel HD. But if there’s a deadline tomorrow for a $5M project, I wouldn’t put myself in the danger of having driver unloading frequently.
It’s a trade-off - you are not purely buying the performance. Simple fact - if you don’t see the benefit of using Quadro, then just ignore it. Unfortunately for us in AEC industry we do need to pay the sky high price and there’s no alternative.
As per AMD… lol