Quadro FX - Games? Or just photo/video editing?

A friend of mine is a manager of an apple store. He tells me that the most expensive card you can currently have is the Quadro FX 5600 Which costs £1700 would wipe the floor with any other card you could throw at it. Is it ture?

This is not true for games whatsoever. The Geforce line of cards are designed for running games, and will outperform the Quadro series cards in consumer pc gaming. Do a few google searches for this type of subject as many people have had similar questions since they started coming out with the Quadro cards. Those are outstanding workstation modeling/rendering/editing cards, hence the high prices.. but are not comparable to any decent Geforce card in terms of gaming power.

I would use this analogy for your friend-- Think of pc games as race tracks. The Quadro is a dumptruck that costs over $100,000 with a ton of horsepower and torque, but it's not built to be effective on a racetrack. It's built to work and help construct the tracks. The Geforce is a sports car costing around $30,000-- it may not have the raw power of the dumptruck, but it's built to handle the race tracks (games).