I'm a 3D graphics designer and I'm facing a video card choice question for the workstation I'm planning to build in May-June 2008.
On one hand, I'm having a professional video card, PNY Quadro FX 1700, featuring a nVidia G84GL chipset, 460 MHz core clock and 400 MHz mem clock freqs..
On the other hand, there's a new GeForce 9800 GTX, with a G92 chipset, 675 MHz core clock and 2200 MHz mem clock freqs..
On the above mentioned specs, the 9800 GTX certainely tops the Quadro FX board, but it's not a gaiming machine I want to build, but a workstation for Digital Content Creation production (mainly in Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere).
Having the two cards side by side, it seems to me that the Quadro FX 1700 video card has a more developped architecture towards CAD and DCC, featuring (just to name a few):
- 128-bit color precision
- Unlimited fragment instruction
- Unlimited vertex instruction
- 3D volumetric texture support
- 12 pixels per clock rendering engine
- Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
- Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
- Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
- Hardware accelerated clipping planes
- 3rd generation occlusion culling
- 16 textures per pixel in fragment programs
- Window ID clipping functionality
- Hardware accelerated line stippling
So even if the frequencies may be smaller than the GF 9800 card, I think that it may deliver more performance on 3D graphics software than a mainstream gaming video card. Unfortunately, I haven't found any head-to-gead comparisons between these two cards, especially for 3D graphics bench tests, and I would really like to know whitch one to choose for my workstation.
I'm also considering that the GeForce 9800 costs ~$100 less than the Quadro FX 1700 card. OTOH, I found a review that highlighted the noisy cooling system of the GF 9800, and I wouldn't like an aircraft reactor as a computer.
Any help will be appreciated.
Mihail.
I'm poining out the rest of the configuration, if anyone needs it:
- Mobo: Supermicro X7DWA-N (Intel 5400 chipset, 1600MHz FSB)
- CPU: 2 x Intel XEON E5410 quad-core (2.33 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 12MB L2 Cache)
- Mem: 2 x 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667 Mhz FB-DIMM, FB
- Vid: TBD (PNY Quadro FX 1700 or XFX GeForce 9800 GTX)
- HDD1: WD1500ADFD Raptor (150 GB, 10 krpm)
- HDD2: WD3200YS (320 GB, 7.2 krpm, enterprise)
- HDD3: WD3200YS (320 GB, 7.2 krpm, enterprise)
- Case: Coolermaster Cosmos1000 (EATX)
- PSU: Coolermaster RealPower Pro 850W
- Disp: 2 x Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (22" TFT WSXGA, 1680 x 1050)
On one hand, I'm having a professional video card, PNY Quadro FX 1700, featuring a nVidia G84GL chipset, 460 MHz core clock and 400 MHz mem clock freqs..
On the other hand, there's a new GeForce 9800 GTX, with a G92 chipset, 675 MHz core clock and 2200 MHz mem clock freqs..
On the above mentioned specs, the 9800 GTX certainely tops the Quadro FX board, but it's not a gaiming machine I want to build, but a workstation for Digital Content Creation production (mainly in Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere).
Having the two cards side by side, it seems to me that the Quadro FX 1700 video card has a more developped architecture towards CAD and DCC, featuring (just to name a few):
- 128-bit color precision
- Unlimited fragment instruction
- Unlimited vertex instruction
- 3D volumetric texture support
- 12 pixels per clock rendering engine
- Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
- Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
- Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
- Hardware accelerated clipping planes
- 3rd generation occlusion culling
- 16 textures per pixel in fragment programs
- Window ID clipping functionality
- Hardware accelerated line stippling
So even if the frequencies may be smaller than the GF 9800 card, I think that it may deliver more performance on 3D graphics software than a mainstream gaming video card. Unfortunately, I haven't found any head-to-gead comparisons between these two cards, especially for 3D graphics bench tests, and I would really like to know whitch one to choose for my workstation.
I'm also considering that the GeForce 9800 costs ~$100 less than the Quadro FX 1700 card. OTOH, I found a review that highlighted the noisy cooling system of the GF 9800, and I wouldn't like an aircraft reactor as a computer.
Any help will be appreciated.
Mihail.
I'm poining out the rest of the configuration, if anyone needs it:
- Mobo: Supermicro X7DWA-N (Intel 5400 chipset, 1600MHz FSB)
- CPU: 2 x Intel XEON E5410 quad-core (2.33 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB, 12MB L2 Cache)
- Mem: 2 x 2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667 Mhz FB-DIMM, FB
- Vid: TBD (PNY Quadro FX 1700 or XFX GeForce 9800 GTX)
- HDD1: WD1500ADFD Raptor (150 GB, 10 krpm)
- HDD2: WD3200YS (320 GB, 7.2 krpm, enterprise)
- HDD3: WD3200YS (320 GB, 7.2 krpm, enterprise)
- Case: Coolermaster Cosmos1000 (EATX)
- PSU: Coolermaster RealPower Pro 850W
- Disp: 2 x Samsung SyncMaster 226BW (22" TFT WSXGA, 1680 x 1050)