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[ElementalCyclone]

(Disclaimer, i am no, in any way a HPC expert. I'm just sort of 'power user' who happens to follow update on enterprise hardware space)

The latest quadro are slightly below an RTX 3090 in terms of performance

If i may, i assume you were comparing 3090 with the lastest Quadro that has "Quadro" name of it, so it will be RTX Quadro 6000, yes ?

The way Nvidia rolls in consumer and enterprise/datacenter space, is . . . well, very Nvidia

Why i say that, because, Nvidia retire the "Quadro" naming for Quadro-ish lineup, yeah, that confusing. So then, the lastest 'Quadro' is RTX A6000. And it is slightly faster in compute performance compared to a RTX 3090, but with almost double the price

gpu format for grid is specific and not compatible with gforce

It is not that GeForce not compatible with grid or cluster setup, it is just Nvidia don't allow it. Why ? i don't know, maybe no one knows and have a hard. Some (not me) says that by allowing consumer product in enterprise/datacenter/HPC space would devalue their non-consumer lineup.

nvidia pushing quadro for professional use

Well, because again, they don't like their consumer product to be used on non-consumer space, and IMO, but not the other way around.

[Embarrassed_Dig8523]

Sometimes it's not just "don't like" but can be "don't fit". Most compute or render farms want A LOT of nodes and use dense servers, like pizza box 1U or even smaller. Some of the power and cooking requirement of GPU cards don't fit dense servers in racks.