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ATI FireGL V3100 vs. nVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 ?

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NickM   10-30-2006 at 08:27:01 PM

Can anybody give me an opinion, please,
I need to choose between two workstations for CAD:

- a newer IBM IntelliStation M 6218 (2-core Pentium 4-630, 2.8 GHz, Prescott, 200x14 MHz FSB,
16 KB L1 cache, 2048 KB L2 cache;
MMX,SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T;
i955X chipset;
ATI FireGL V3100, DAC 400 MHz, with 128 MB video memory)
and

- an older Dell Precision 650 (2-processor Xeon 2.4 GHz Prestonia,
8 KB L1 cache per processor, 512 KB L2 cache per processor;
MMX, SSE, SSE2;
nVIDIA Quadro FX 1000 with 128 MB video memory )

Both machines have 1 GB RAM.

Is there a simple benchmark software to compare the machines?

Thank you.

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Cleeve   10-30-2006 at 08:38:38 PM
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Erf...

Based on the cards alone... the V3100 is based on the 9600 or X600 I think, the FX1000 is based on the Geforce 5800 (a suck card but pretty darn good for CAD stuff).

In CAD viewport refreshes, I believe the FX1000 would probably give some serious hurt to the V3100, but I don't have any benchmarks to offer. But that's the way I'd go, disregarding the platform entirely.

Bringing the platforms into consideration really bungs things up, I don't know enough about Xeon performance to recommend anything. The clockspeeds look similar so I don't THINK there would be a massive difference in render times, but I'm not sure.

Personally, I'd probably take the Xeons & FX1000 just for the video card.

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