Quadro K2000 vs Geforce GTX 680 for AE CS6

Hi,
I want to buy one of these two cards for using with After Effects CS6. The price point of these two are about the same, although the GTX is a bit cheaper. The specs of the GTX 680 on the other hand are much more appealing then the Quadro K2000.
Especially for the Ray-Traced Renderer the 1536 CUDA Cores vs 384 CUDA Cores seems much better.
The only donwside I could find is, that the GTX uses about 4 times the power of the Quadro and is going to be louder. Also the driver for the Quadro is working more stable than the Geforce driver.
Am I missing anything here or would be the GTX be the better choice?
Kind regards
Christian

Christian,
The main performance determining factor for a video card is the memory bandwidth, not the amount of memory. Memory bandwidth is more important than number of cores too.
See a limited performance comparison here: Video Card Performance and scroll down a bit till you see the relevant graph.
Interpolating, one would expect the performance of the K2000 to be between the GTX 550 Ti and the GT 640,  possibly with a score around 120-130 seconds, around 4 times slower than a GTX 680.

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