Quadro vs 8 series

[itotallybelieveyou]

Always wondered this. Does Quadro FX5500 or FX5600 beat 8800 Ultra? I know it's got more VRAM so that's good. Besides that Does it out perform the 8800 Ultra? underperform it?

 

[emp]

Depends on what you're doing, if you mean games, then yes the Ultra will most likely be the better performer by a fair margin. But that's more because of gaming-oriented drivers for the Ultra than anything else in my opinion since I don't know the exact specs of the FX5600.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Cool thanks mate

 

[lostandwandering]

For the most part the FX cards are based directly off of the desktop cards. The only difference in most cases are the drivers. With laptops I know that you can use Go7900GTX drivers with the FX2500M and have the FX perform like the GTX. I'm not sure about desktop cards and, like emp, I don't know the specs of the FX5600. Be an interesting thing to find out.