Quadro graphics card

[k3v]

Quick question, whats the deal with these? Why are they better than gaming card for 3d work? I use strucad at work and ive just been given a new computer and it has a quadro 3500 in it. It got me thinking what makes it better than a gaming card as I think strucad just uses opengl

kev

 

[willhub]

Well they are mainly for CAD stuff and Open GL and dont perform as well in games, you can softmod cards like a 2900XT into there FireGL counterpart aswell.

 

[k3v]

I was thinking more the other way. Why would you have one for cad rather than a game card

 

[willhub]

I was thinking more the other way. Why would you have one for cad rather than a game card

Well graphics designers proberbly would prefer a card for CAD, I dont know much as to the differences all I know is the ones designed for CAD do better at what they do, like the ones designed for games. The thing that confuses me is that they are litrally the exact same card as the gaming card but have different bioses but like the 2900XT you could softmod to be a FireGL.

 

[Bubo]

I use a Quadro card in my work pc, basically there are several opengl instructions which are not supported in the consumer level cards, eg hardware clipping and overlay features.

 

[willhub]

I use a Quadro card in my work pc, basically there are several opengl instructions which are not supported in the consumer level cards, eg hardware clipping and overlay features.

I guess they are supported after a Bios or softmod since surely thats what happenes after a bios mod to an Quadro or FireGL.