Nvidia Quadro

[Goody_GTI]

Just been looking on another e-tailor website (sorry i have sinned ) and came accross some nvidia quadro cards priced rather expensively? i.e. around £800?!

What are these cards as i have never heard of them before? I presume they are not for gaming and for more rendering intensive applications?

Thanks for any replies!

Goody

 

[Tom|Nbk]

there for intensive 3d rendering applications

 

[XtAsY]

there for intensive 3d rendering applications

yes indeed. They are not designed to run games. They are for 3D work stations for use with 3d content creation packages and CAD programs.

 

[Mud]

There's often very little difference between the gaming-oriented graphics cards and the quadro versions...you pay for the quadro drivers (and they often come with a nicer heatsink) since they take a lot of investment to make (say nVidia).

I'm not sure what the current state of play is, but the 6800's had plenty that modded to quadro nicely. My 6800GT got softmodded in rivatuner into a CAD-chewing monster

 

[lay-z-boy]

yes indeed. They are not designed to run games. They are for 3D work stations for use with 3d content creation packages and CAD programs.

Hold on, dont give the wrong impression here, they are designed for games, as they use the standard gpu's, they are just modified (driver/hardware level) to run CAD or DCC much faster than the general consumer version.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

yes they are for cad use.

BUT iv also modded 2 6800agp cards, a 6800nu and 6800le into QUADRO FX 4000 cards.

 

[sunlitsix]

but do rivatuner modded cards run at the same performance as the official quadro would?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

but do rivatuner modded cards run at the same performance as the official quadro would?

yes they do. do a search on it. quadro drivers enable opengl acceleration in apps as well as games so you get some serious speed boosts. no less the 10x the boost in speed.

 

[edgaruy1980]

I modded to enable workstation app, and I run spec viewperf 8.1, and I borrow from my exgf quadro drivers (powerdraft and Maxtreme), and the drivers you get on Nvidia.
First if you test on forceware drivers, you get an average of 20 to 15, then with the quadro modded, you can get almost the same, but there is improvement when you install powerdraft ( also you need autocad installed) and your scores jump to 40 on the cad apps.
MAxtreme enables OpenGL of precision, so you Open GL games will run based on quality and not performance, so you WILL LOSE FPS.
It's a mith that quadro cards are better for gaming.
Forceware driver doesn't use acceleration to render the wire frame, when quadro does, this make the rendering for games slower.
You can check for CAD apps, 3D labs realizm series, are getting cheap, and have good drivers for CAD, also great performance.

 

[XtAsY]

Hold on, dont give the wrong impression here, they are designed for games, as they use the standard gpu's, they are just modified (driver/hardware level) to run CAD or DCC much faster than the general consumer version.

They may run games, but they are more targeted at 3d workstation users rather than gamers

 

[Cyber-Mav]

im running my 6800le unlocked to 12 pipes / 6 vertex shader and its running in Quadro Fx4000 mode fine. using it as a development workstation on a xp3200 cpu. easy mod to do and the speed boost in maya is phenominal.