Quadro vs Geforce?
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Tom,
you are going to get the biggest benefit of a quadro card on Photoshop over all the programs you noted. Just be very careful when upgrading drivers. We had to actually step back a few driver version due to glitches. We finally found a very stable version in 7.15.11.7823. We are running the 4gb FX5800. It is a blazing fast card but not for those without a hefty budget.
The nice thing is you will be able to take advantage of the new programs harnessing the power of the CUDA programming.
Let me know if you need anything else as we researched the purchase of these quite extensively.
Best regards,
Scott -
Good to hear. We decided to keep on buying Quadro cards for our workstations. And I should be getting my ATI card replaced soon as well.
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My only complaint about the fx5800 is it can whine under heavy load. We wear headphones the whole day so it is not bad unless you take them off. It sounds like an old tv going bad. We emailed them and they said that it is a known issue under load but that most customers do not push them to those extremes...whatever that is supposed to mean.
Scott
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That's annoying.
I've not had that sort of problem with my old 3500.
But at home with my 6800 and 8800 the ambient noise level was so low that I heard the GPU fans notably. So I got some third-party new fans that silenced them.
ahhComputer noise is all too often not considered. I often wonder why people put up with much of the noise they generate.
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No noise problems with the FX 4800 either. I have been using one for some weeks now. It's probably overkill for standard CAD work, maybe overkill for SU, too, but the 3D windows in BIM apps seem to like it.
Anssi
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I guess quadro fx have a deep acceleration effect on SU.
I use at my office an Old workstation (6 years) which kills all the recent dell precision we have bought on sketchup... The only difference is a quadro fx1400 with professional drivers...
I'll give you tomorow some precisions about the specifications of each computer.
As far as I know, Nvidia quadro with professionnal drivers are really better than Geforce for Autodesk application, CATIA, Sketchup and other CAD program... And a major part of this difference is due to driver's professionnal optimisation.
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@minguinhirigue said:
As far as I know, Nvidia quadro with professionnal drivers are really better than Geforce for Autodesk application, CATIA, Sketchup and other CAD program... And a major part of this difference is due to driver's professionnal optimisation.
Yea- from that link at Tom's Hardware it was illustrated well by the comparison of the Geforce and Quadro that used the same chipsets.
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There is also some stuff on the web about making a geforce into a quadro with some tweaking and sodering. From the sounds of it the gtx cards are only slightly different than a quadro.
Scott
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I bought a Quadro with my new computer, and since so many specs have changed compared to my old computer, I can't say with certainty that it's better. But in my research, I read that, as opposed to what an earlier post said, that Photoshop craves a fast processor and tons of RAM, and couldn't care less about the graphics card. I bought the Quadro because it made sense to me that SU and my CAD program would benefit from a GPU that's tailored to all the on-the-fly rendering of 3D objects. And I can certainly say I see an enormous improvement in orbiting with shadows turned on!
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@youemailme said:
But in my research, I read that, as opposed to what an earlier post said, that Photoshop craves a fast processor and tons of RAM, and couldn't care less about the graphics card.
When was that article written then? Photoshop utilising Hardware acceleration is new to CS4 I think.
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Tom you are correct. CS4 can be GPU hungry and having a decent card for large imagery can make the difference.
Scott
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