3D Modeling and Gaming GPU help

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i dont know where to do so if you can help me out here my spelling is rubbish and im typing this in a rush ...hope u understand

ok i build PC's for people all the time there always for office or for gaming but my friend has asked me to make him a pc he is using it for 3D Modeling using CAD and autodesk inventor and such other programs so that's me then a Quadro card or a firepro card 16GB Ram and an i7 ...not so you see my friend also wants to use this pc for gaming so my question here is will a r9 390 or a 980 be ok for these types of 3D modeling while also providing good gaming performance

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unfortunately no...

or at least, a 390 or 980 wont be half as good as a quadro or firepro card, but i suppose it depends on the scale of the CAD designs..

best option would be to have 2 cards, 1 for CAD other for gaming.

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how would i go about having 2 would i not have to turn drivers off and on depending on what im doing

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well if you went both nvidia or ATI you might have some issues, but i doubt it.. though i dont have any personal experience with installing 2 gfx cards so utterly different..

though you could run each card in a virtualized enviroment, having each passed through to a VM seperately, then you wouldny have to worry about any conflicts.

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that would be ok for me but my friend is not good with computers that would blow his mind lol .....at college he uses a quadro 600 its only got 1GB v Ram so would a r9 390 or a 980 surely must beat that little thing ??

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no, because the architecture of the cards is completely different..

if you set it up for him it wouldnt be too jarring, just a matter of. run this one for CAD, run this one for Games.

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how would u pick what card to run ? if there both installed how dose the software know what one ...is there an option ?? i don't do this type of work ....im a gamer lol

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https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/linux-steam-stream-server-w-gpu-passthrough/87164/1

on that thread,

that guide will walk you through setting it up, you specify which card is passed through to which machine.
so it would always be tied to that VM.

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You know a FirePro or Quadro won't refuse to play games. If you have a Quadro K4000 for example, it's got the same core as a GTX 650 Ti and will play any game the 650 Ti can play. They usually are slower at it, but it's not uncommon to play games on higher-end cards.

I built a CAD workstation for a friend and used a FirePro V7800, (a lower clocked HD 5850) and he would play Crysis 2, Battlefield 3 (low-ish settings), TF2, Metro 2033 and a few others on his off time all with the FirePro.

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I run a W8100 and a R9 Fury.
The FirePro will do a great job at CAD but does okay but not great at gaming. The Fury does a worse than okay job at CAD but a great job at gaming.
Can not speak for Nvidia in CAD, but from everything I heard AMD is better at it.