nVidia Question??

We are upgrading our workstations, I was wondering if anyone has had any
experience with the nVidia Quadro FX700. It seems that a lot of people use
the FX 500, I was wondering about the performance difference. The nVidia web
site does show some better numbers, but I was wondering about in the real
world.

The new systems will be an Intel system with 3+ ghz (800fbs) 1mb cash, 1gb
of duel channel memory, win xp pro.

Is it worth the extra $500 canadian to go to the fx700??

Thanks
Kevin

 

Hello Kevin-
The FX700 requires an extra power connector from the power supply, whereas
the FX500 does not. So, the power supply should be >300 watts if the FX700
is used.
Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

We tested the 500, 700, and 1100, here in our office a few weeks ago.
And while I don't recall the exact numbers or what SolidWorks
benchmark was used, the 700 kicked the 500's ass, and we really didn't
see enough of a difference b/t the 700 and 1100 to warrant spending
the extra money. Hope this helps.

Todd

 

dont get a quadro at all
get the 6800 costs less and you can soft mod it to a quadro anyhow

 

Well thank you for the advice. We did end up going for the 500. The money we
saved we put into a faster processor and doubled our memory to 2gb. If we
find that we are having troubles with the 500, our supplier will trade in
the 500 and upgrade to the 700.. This is the same supplier as our var, he
recommended going this route.

Todd could you take a quick look and see if you could find the numbers??

Thanks
Kevin

 

See Mike Wilson 's post on "New Quadro FX Comparisons/Reviews" I found this
link to be well worth the read.

http://www.cgnetworks.com/story_custom.php?story_id=2214&page=1

Regards,
Scott

 

Hi

Here are the numbers from the SPEC benchmark that we did.

Results in sec.
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Ave

FX500 86 86 86 86.00

FX700 71 70 70 70.33

FX1100 70 71 71 70.67

FX3000 69 71 70 70.00

Don't remember the specs of the machine exactly -- 3.2GHz Pentium and 4 GB RAM.