Jesus this kid still doesn't understand does he? 8O :lol: Why would they spend money on a complete different job for geforce, I think they incorperate the work done first with the quadro's into the ge-force.
..... you really are ignorant! :trophy:
Ok, prove me wrong with some proof on how nvidia cards are made
You asked for it, so now I get to rape your eyes and lower your IQ with the amount of data I'm gonna give you.
Regardless of who builds a workstation VGA (ATI or Nvidia), these cards are never designed with the intent of gaming. To put this in perspective my 10 yr old GeForce 256 was able to outscore an FX1500 Quadro in one of the older 3DMark benches (forget which one it was about 5 yrs ago when that happened). But this is just perspective the following is hardcore data.
The 2 VGA's I'm going to be comparing are ASUS 7900GTX and the PNY FX5500 Quadro. Here are the specs for each (links will be provided to each website for reference):
7900GTX:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121023
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core: G71 at 650mhz
Memory: 512mb GDDR3 256-bit interface at 56gb/s bandwith at 800mhz (1600mhz DDR)
PPL: 24
3D API: DX9 & Open GL 2.0
Max Res: 2560 x 1600
SLI enabled
$500 price tag
no specific driver set
FX 5500
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133189
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro
http://www2.pny.com/Nvidia-Quadro-FX-5500-PCIE-P1804C36.aspx
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core: G71 at 700mhz
Memory: 1gb GDDR2 256-bit interface at 64gb/s bandwith at 500mhz (1000mhz DDR)
PPL: 12
3D API: DX9 & Open GL 2.0
Max Res: 3840 x 2400
SLI enabled
$2400 price tag
application specific driver set
Now, just going by the numbers you can see that the quality of a frame is the focus of importance in the Quadro cards. The GeForce line is meant for gaming. Now if you can see that the cards have the same core, I'll clear up one of your mis-informations about the Quadro. Quadro's are loosely based on the GeForce cards. The reason I say this is for 2 reasons (large dose of IMHO comes with this):
a) the G71 equipped Geforce came out 1 yr before the G71 equipped Quadro's
b) some GeForce cards do well in CAD applications. This is not by design, rather this is due to "flukes" in how well the hardware works CAD style programs.
Also, Quadro's are designed to run off of the Open GL library rather than the DX library because DX is all about speed and GL is about quality. A CAD render at 2560 x 1600 on my 7900GTX takes about 4-5hrs to complete with all of the Quality settings cranked to max. However if I go to school and do it there on a FX1500 Quadro the render time goes down to 1-1.5hrs and my GTX is 4 times larger than that thing.
In lay mans terms if your worn out by now: The Quadro's are designed with an Open GL CAD application specific driver set and have been built from the ground up to render a single frame in extremely high quality within a reasonable time frame. The GeForce's are designed with DX specific driver set and are optimized for gaming with very generalized VGA architecture.
You wont be making any records in the 3DMark benches (although the Quadro will do nice in the batch and fill PPL/PXLS tests
😀 )
Also, you saying the P4D is nice is like saying the sun is cool to the touch. Here's an article chronicling the K8's rise to power over the P4:
http://www.cpuid.com/reviews/K8/index.php
Sad thing about that article is that its over 2 yrs old now.
Hope you save money on your next build.
SPARTAN-117 out.