Dell vs. HP Quadro FX5500

[LsD1977]

I ended going with dual FX4600 cards in my workstation build. I finally managed to make it stutter while doing some modeling the other night. The behavior it demonstrated lead me to believe that additional graphics memory may help.

I looked around online and stumbled accross some HP Quador FX500 cards for a good price.

My question is if there is a difference in the HP version of this card and the Dell version of this card? I do't want to buy something and then find out the power connectors don't match or the cooling solution causes a conflict. I have been digging around online as much as I can for the last two days, but haven't been able to find any concrete information.

I found only one Dell FX5500 and it was the price of two of the HP cards. They are all used. I believe the price difference is because the seller with the HP cards has a whole lot of them.

 

[bambiboom]

I ended going with dual FX4600 cards in my workstation build. I finally managed to make it stutter while doing some modeling the other night. The behavior it demonstrated lead me to believe that additional graphics memory may help.

I looked around online and stumbled accross some HP Quador FX500 cards for a good price.

My question is if there is a difference in the HP version of this card and the Dell version of this card? I do't want to buy something and then find out the power connectors don't match or the cooling solution causes a conflict. I have been digging around online as much as I can for the last two days, but haven't been able to find any concrete information.

I found only one Dell FX5500 and it was the price of two of the HP cards. They are all used. I believe the price difference is because the seller with the HP cards has a whole lot of them.

LsD1977,

The FX 5500 is inexpensive as it does not have any CUDA cores. It would not be satisfactory for 3D modeling and certainly not as competent as the FX 4600.

I am a big fan of used Quadros, having had eight in the last twelve years, and still have: around: 2X FX 550, FX 580, FX 4800 (in Precision T5400), 4000 (in Precision T5500), K 600 in Precision 390) and K2200 (in HP z420)- all working. I gave the FX 1700 away and it's still in use in a Precision 390.

However, GPU technology has significantly improved and you're doing 3D modeling with current software, my suggestion is to sell the two FX 4600's and buy a modern Quadro, which have a lot of CUDA cores and use less power. The best cost / performance Quadro is probably the K2200 (4GB) $420 :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133559&cm_re=Quadro_K2200-_-14-133-559-_-Product

> and which produces 3D scores on Passmark similar to a GTX 750ti but f course using Quadro drivers. I was going to buy a used K5000, but am actually perfectly happy with a K2200- which I bought used for $350.

And, the Quadro K620 (2GB) $160, :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133560&cm_re=K620-_-14-133-560-_-Product

>despite a small memory bandwidth performs better in 3D than a Quadro 4000 and on only 45W- much, much cooler than a Quadro 4000. If you're not working on large, complex 3D such as Solidworks files or animation, I would say a K620 might wok very well and will be a world better than the FX 4600.

If your budget extends to it, the 4GB K2200 could work very well for several years and on moderately large and complex projects. I've opened very Maya and Solidworks files on the K2200 and it's excellent. I have a 105MB Sketchup model, which on the Quadro FX 4800 was almost unusable and on the K2200 I can navigate smoothly with shadows on.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

HP z420 (2015) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 six core @ 3.7 /4.0GHz > 16GB DDR3 ECC 1866 RAM > Quadro K2200 (4GB) > Intel 730 480GB > Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card > Linksys AE3000 USB WiFi > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H 2560 X 1440 > Windows 7 Professional 64 >
[ Passmark Rating = 4918 > CPU= 13941 / 2D= 823 / 3D=3464 / Mem= 2669 / Disk= 4764]

Dell Precision T5500 > Xeon X5680 six -core @ 3.33 / 3.6GHz, 24GB DDR3 ECC 1333 > Quadro 4000 (2GB ) > Samsung 840 250GB /WD RE4 Enterprise 1TB > M-Audio 192 sound card > Linksys WMP600N PCI WiFi > Windows 7 Professional 64> HP 2711x (1920 X 1440)
[ Passmark system rating = 3339 / CPU = 9347 / 2D= 684 / 3D= 2030 / Mem= 1871 / Disk= 2234]

 

[LsD1977]

Thank you. I didn't look closely enough at the specs to see that the 5500 was not a cude GPU. I will stick with what I have until I have the money for something better.