Do NVIDIA GPUs support Direct3D and OpenGL in 3ds Max?
Both GeForce and Quadro boards support Direct3D and OpenGL, although the drivers may behave somewhat differently as GeForce drivers are tuned for Games performance while Quadro drivers are tuned for Tools performance. Direct3D is the most feature rich graphics API for 3ds Max, and Quadro products include a 3ds Max Performance Driver for additional performance when using Direct3D. In contrast, Tesla boards have minimal graphics API support and are not recommended for driving graphics applications. Tesla products based on the Fermi architecture have DVI ports, but this is solely to make it easy to load the NVIDIA driver (earlier Tesla products had no video out).
