Re: hardware - which card is certified?

["Steven Caron" <carons(at)gmail.com>]

our desktop admin paul was mentioning to me these are pretty much the same card. i hope i am representing our conversation properly but the geforce has something inhibiting it. he mentioned flashing it?

steven

On 5/8/07, Morten Bartholdy <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk> wrote:

I just tested a GeForce 8800 GTX vs. a Quadro 4600 on the same machine
today. These cards are supposedly based on the same gpu and have the same
amount of texture memory - 768 MB RAM. I used the latest GeForce standard
driver and the correct Quadro set to XSI ogl, and found a baffling
performance difference in favour of the Quadro!! It was 2-3 times as fast as
the GeForce in most tests - wireframe, hidden line, depth cue, shaded and
textured. I made a test with about 3000 objects and 1,6 million triangles
and one with one object and the same triangle amount - a merged version af
the first scene. Actually the Quadro was relative faster at handling the
scene with many objects thna the merged one. I am guessing it might be
possible to find a better OGL setting for the GeForce driver and perhaps
increase the performance some, but still, the difference is remarkable.

I wonder if someone here has had a chance to make more thorough camparisons
between GeForce and Quadro hardware twins, and can offer some insight? I am
really beginning to wonder if the Quadro isn't worth the extra pricetag -
actually it makes sense - it is 2-3 times faster and cost about 3 times as
much as the GeForce.

Best regards

Morten Bartholdy
3D & VFX Artist





----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Alan Peleg" <todd(at)theholdingcell.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: hardware - which card is certified?


>i have a bad experience with 2 fx3500's and the fx3000's
>
> there are 2 of them here at the place i am at and the performance of them
> has been whipped by my 5 year old laptop's nvidia
>
> (i have yet to explain it)
>
> some other people have offered MANY options to fix what seems to be for no
> reason.. i haven't had time to investigate it.. but.. for it to be the
> case in multiple machines... i doubt its a rare thing..
>
> for what its worth
>
> todd
>
>
>
> Jeff McFall wrote:
>
>>Trying to pick cards for new machines and we are looking for some
>>clarification regarding the QuadroFx3500.
>>
>>On the Softimage support site the QuadroFx3500 is not listed as
>>"certified"
>> http://www.softimage.com/support/xsi/certified_graphics_cards/xp32/default.aspx
>>
>>However on the workstation page
>> http://www.softimage.com/support/xsi/certified_workstations/default.aspx
>>The 3500 is listed as certified (at least for 5.11) in a Dell 690 and Dell
>>490
>>
>>Trying to get some solid info as to why this is.
>>
>>Is this just an oversight or something that should be considered given
>>changes in XSI 6.  ?
>>
>>
>>Also curious if there are any major performance differences between the
>>two cards.
>>>From the specs it appears the 3500 may be more adept at handling
>>>textures.
>>Any other points to consider if we went with the lesser card?
>>
>>
>>Thanks for any feedback or suggestions
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
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