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'normal' GFX and CAD performance

qbazdz

qbazdz

qbazdz

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Hello,

does anyone know how the most recent cards cope with the CAD work and OpenGL tasks?
I'm not sure if it's worth trying to go for a CAD gfx or should I stick to normal cards and hope that the performance is going to be sufficient?

Thanks!
 
I would have thought so. I use CATIA version 5 at home and it runs fine on my old 4850 and now my 6950.

You must remember that a lot of these packages came out quite a few years ago when the cards at the time might have struggled. Obviously card technology has moved on a great deal so in my opinion any of the latest cards will run a CAD package fine.
 
I am mainly looking at the FirePro V4800 card and the standard ones up to about 150quid budget.
I don't game a lot, and would not use it at higher res than 1680x1050 but I am just concerned that getting the CAD card would mean that I won't be able to game smoothly at this res for the next year or two... (would upgrade by then).
 
cad cards struggle at normal games, in my experience, but that might have been with poor cards, but still, COD4 at 640 not even being playable......

Still, my 295s **** all over CAD.

I am curious though as to how much a decent card affects CAD, since I want a laptop for work, which iwll involve some CAD and cant decide if I need one with a graphics card in it or if just a I5 470m and onboard will be enough? Never used it on a machine without graphics acceleration lol.
 
Ive got a HP8510p which is a 3 year old machine and it has HD2600 in it. This card is exact match (hardwarewise) to the FireGL V5700 CAD card and I have it 'modified' to the FireGL. It was done by one of the NBR review forum members through changes in the driver config and worked a treat!
Performance measured with SpecViewPerf had over 300% improvement in CAD tasks on average, while I was still gaming The Witcher in 1680x1050 at full details (after some o/c). Recently, Starcraft II was playable on medium/high settings with plenty of fps to spare.
Actually this card is amazing in terms of o/c. Managed to get over 4600 3D Marks (2006) with overall improvement of 45%!!!
http://img651.imageshack.us/f/4647marks.png/
 
DuncanK, sorry to be a pain... would you mind running a SpecViewPerf on your machine for me? What is the rest of your spec?
 
Erm i would do if i even knew how lol.

My machine is also pretty low spec apart from my new graphics card.

Core2duo e6750
2gb ram
ati 6950 2gb card (although i ran catia v5 fine on my 4850)

CPU is a bottleneck for my new card but i got it with the intention of upgrading the rest later in the year:)
 
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Download the 10 version from -> here.
Its 600mb though, so I'll understand if you want to give it a miss :)

I'll let you know what to do next in 2h time, got to check how the menu's look like as I don't have it at the moment.
 
Sooo...
I presume you have a 32bit windows? If so, in the start menu find "SPECopc" entry and run at least Multithreading through "Viewperf 2 Threads". That should take 10-15min maybe. If you had extra time you could do "RunViewperf 1280x1024".
After each of these finish there should be a html page being displayed showing results for various CAD software. Either PM me these or link to a imageshack or sthing.

Thanks a lot!
 
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