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Well, from my limited experience, its higher polycount models that benefit - viewport navigation around dense models was a lot smoother for me once I'd swapped cards from 8800gtx to quadro 4500 (5fps to 40fps in shaded view). Animation playback wasn't affected so much because its more cpu dependent. There were also a couple of niggles I was having (one selection issue in the AE and a glitch in xray shaded view that only came up occasionally that were resolved with the quadro. Power requirements for the 8800 cards are crazy, plus it was a LOT hotter. No serious issues though, apart from fitting it in the case!
In all probably not worth it for full price quadro cards, unless your company is willing to shell out.
On 30/01/2008, Gerbrand Nel <gerbrand(at)sphere-animation.com> wrote:
SH#t...
thanx for the info.
would you guys say that the quadro cards are that much better for xsi
than the gaming cards.... I've been doing 3d for 8 years and have never
used a quadro. so far the gaming cards seemed fine
Where exactly would one see the difference between a geforce 8800 gt and
a quadro fx 3500m except the price tag....?
G
Matt Morris wrote:
> sli won't help at all unfortunately - its a games thing
>
> On 30/01/2008, *Gerbrand Nel* <gerbrand(at)sphere-animation.com
> <mailto:gerbrand(at)sphere-animation.com>> wrote:
>
> Not to hog this thread but:
> does anyone know if using two cards link with the sli "thingy" makes a
> difference in xsi, and does it make enough of a difference to warrant
> the extra cost. I'm looking into the dell xps m1730 and they have an
> option to run two graphics cards with sli, but I've never tested
> the sli
> theory in xsi
>
> G
>
> Matt Morris wrote:
> > Sorry, meant to add, the geforce 8800 cards are ok, but the opengl
> > performance is pretty bad, and they do run hot. I ended up swapping
> > out my 8800gtx and don't regret it.
> >
> >
> > On 30/01/2008, *Matt Morris* <mattmos(at)gmail.com
> <mailto:mattmos(at)gmail.com>
> > <mailto:mattmos(at)gmail.com <mailto:mattmos(at)gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello fabrice!
> >
> > The 4600 has got a decent rep, but the newest firegl ati cards
> > (v5600, v7600, v8600) are beating it in performance and
> price - I
> > just don't know anyone who's using them with xsi to comment
> on the
> > display drivers etc.
> >
> > Is it for the company or personal? I picked up a dirt cheap
> quadro
> > 4500 on ebay, always one option :)
> >
> > cheers
> > matt
> >
> >
> >
> > On 30/01/2008, *Fabrice Altman* <fabrice(at)studioaka.co.uk
> <mailto:fabrice(at)studioaka.co.uk>
> > <mailto:fabrice(at)studioaka.co.uk
> <mailto:fabrice(at)studioaka.co.uk>>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > here we go again.
> > What would be your recommendations for a pro graphics card
> > without paying
> > top crazy price for an Quadro FX5600 ?
> >
> > It would be used for all XSI general tasks ( model,
> anim, sim
> > etc...) on medium to heavy scenes.
> >
> > I read from older posts that the Quadro FX 4600 has good all
> > round performance.
> > What about ATI cards ? Anyone using those ?
> >
> > Is there still a huge performance/stability gap with Geforce
> > cards ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance ,
> > F.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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