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nutball
02-08-03, 01:45 PM
...as a professional workstation card.

Comparison of the Quadro FX v. FireGL X1:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/3dsmax5-quadrofx/

A performance margin of ~50% in some of the tests, and is roughly equal in others. Wierd!
jAkUp
02-08-03, 02:00 PM
it can also cook eggs as well as bacon on the underside of the card when in 3d mode.
Uttar
02-08-03, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by jAkUp
it can also cook eggs as well as bacon on the underside of the card when in 3d mode.

Actually, no. The Quadro FX 2000 is clocked at 400/400, so it doesn't make more noise than the Fire GL

It does costs *3* times more, however. The Quadro FX 2000 is hella expensive!


Uttar
mariuz
02-08-03, 02:30 PM
Originally posted by nutball
...as a professional workstation card.

Comparison of the Quadro FX v. FireGL X1:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/3dsmax5-quadrofx/

A performance margin of ~50% in some of the tests, and is roughly equal in others. Wierd!
I don't trust on xbitlabs .They are somehow
Intella biased and ati tooo....somehow
MikeC
02-08-03, 08:51 PM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 Workstation Graphics Set Application Performance Records

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030206_6740
Spiritwalker
02-08-03, 10:31 PM
One thing that I did notice from an earlier Firegl preview, while faster than the previous 8800 by a considerable margin there seemed to be major driver related slowdowns.

This is going to be an interesting area to watch, comparing these 2 cores (nV30 and R300)
nutball
02-09-03, 05:43 AM
Yes, that's what intrigued me about the whole article.

What sort of differences in the core are there between professional and mainstream parts? I'd always assumed the answer was basically "none", that some features were disabled (either by hardware or software) on mainstream cards. Hence SoftQuadro, and similar simple-ish hardware mods.
StealthHawk
02-09-03, 05:59 AM
Originally posted by nutball
Yes, that's what intrigued me about the whole article.

What sort of differences in the core are there between professional and mainstream parts? I'd always assumed the answer was basically "none", that some features were disabled (either by hardware or software) on mainstream cards. Hence SoftQuadro, and similar simple-ish hardware mods.

it's all about drivers. Quadro drivers are optimized for workstation class rendering programs.
Uttar
02-09-03, 06:12 AM
Actually, since the NV25GL, there are *minor* modifications to the core. Those are very minor, but you still can't have *exactly* the same thing with SoftQuadro or similar utilities.
No idea if ATI also slightly modifies their workstation cards or not.

No matter what, the NV30GL does have an interesting hardware modification: 2048 PS instructions instead of 1024 on the NV30.
I really don't think that could be enabled on the NV30 with any type of software hack.


Uttar