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ATI
Nvidia
ATI FirePro V8700
Nvidia Quadro FX 5600
ATI FireGL V8650
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
ATI FireGL V7700
Nvidia Quadro FX 4600
ATI FireGL V7600
Nvidia Quadro FX 1700
ATI FireGL V7300
Nvidia Quadro FX 5500
ATI FireGL V7200
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
ATI FireGL V7100
Nvidia Quadro FX 3500
ATI FireGL V5600
Nvidia Quadro FX 570
ATI FireGL V5200
Nvidia Quadro FX 370
ATI FireGL V3600
Nvidia Quadro FX 1500
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CPU
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (2.93 GHz)
Motherboard
Asus P5W64 WS Pro (rev 1.01, BIOS 0802) with Intel 975X Chipset
System Memory (RAM)
4 GB (4 x 1 GB) Corsair XMS2-6400 (CM2X10246400-C3) with CL 4.0-4-4-12
Optical drive
Samsung SH-D163A , SATA150
Power supply
Zalman, ATX 2.01, 510 W
Hard disk
Western Digital WD1500ADFD 150 GB
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Operating System
Windows XP Service Pack 3
3D API Update
DirectX 9.0c
Intel Chipset drivers
Version 8.3.1.1009
ATI FireGL driver
Catalyst 8.453.1-081008
Nvidia Quadro driver
Quadro 182.08 + Maxtreme 11
SPEC Benchmarks settings
Application settings according to SPEC Project Group Rules, driver using application optimizations if available
SPEC Benchmarks run
SpecViewperf 10.0SPECapc 3ds Max 9 (3D Studio Max)SPECapc Solidworks 2007SPECapc Maya 6.5
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why do i feel like when everyone compares workstation cards to gaming ones they get it wrong. a 4800 Fx will performs 99% like a 260GTX and if you softmod it to a Quadro than you have the same effect the other way around. really you are paying for driver support. i much rather just pay for the card.
They really mean it when they say great support. I once got a custom driver made specificly for my system overnight for a glitch I had. It saved me from loosing a client and a few thousand dollars for that one specific gig...
bob49574why do i feel like when everyone compares workstation cards to gaming ones they get it wrong. a 4800 Fx will performs 99% like a 260GTX and if you softmod it to a Quadro than you have the same effect the other way around. really you are paying for driver support. i much rather just pay for the card.
I think the comparison to the gaming card came from readers in past workstation card stories requesting such comparisons.
Great article, I appreciate the benches comparing the GTX 280 on workstation apps. I'll spend my money on gaming cards and leave it to corporations to purchase workstations...
cangeliniI think the comparison to the gaming card came from readers in past workstation card stories requesting such comparisons.this is challanging the consumers intelect with all things on the table ... actulay is the same GPU chip but performs so differently because of few modifications ... wonder how much this thing will keep up from nvidia and amd ... makeing their customers stupid so obvious ... i mean it is the same fukin engine at heart why sell it so overpriced ?
Looking at the results, I cannot understand how you can wholeheartedly recommend FX 4800 over cheaper FirePro V8700. Quadro benchmark results do not seem "convincing" to me since differences are quite small in most cases. The recommendation has to be based on type of work/application someone is using.
I'm getting tired of NVIDIA's crap: "....but our cards have CUDA support". Enough marketing! I think someone who's willing to buy a card because they want to program on the GPU MUST know that both vendors have a SDK for stream programming and it's actually the SAME thing. I've tried them both (FireStream and CUDA) and there are very little differences between them. If they wanna brag about 3rd party apps...well how many are they? 2? 3? Just wait until OpenCL (sdk and cl) is finally released and maybe then we'll see more applications in this GPGPU area and maybe they'll stop with this "oh but we have CUDA" thing.
I would like to see them use riva tuner and to tell the drivers it is not a geforce and see what kind of bench marking they get then. Or the other way around. Turn the workstation card into a gaming card. How about throwing a game on a workstaion card. See how it handles it.