Nico D. Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 What is better, a cheap QUADRO FX560 or a nvidia 8800GT ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 What is better, a cheap QUADRO FX560 or a nvidia 8800GT ? Go for the Quadro, we have both cards here and the entry level cad cards win by streets for Houdini type work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico D. Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 Go for the Quadro, we have both cards here and the entry level cad cards win by streets for Houdini type work. Thanks for the info ! I will go with the Quadro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I have an 8800GT at home and Houdini is pretty snappy with it. Seems comparable to my work card anyway (although I haven't done nearly the level of work here as I do there, so who knows ). edit: Not that it means much in the real world, but here are the comparisons between the two : Model Fab(nm) mem mem interface mem bandwidth tex fill openGL 8800GT 65 512MB 256bit 57.6GB/sec 33.6(billion/sec) 2.1 FX560 90 128MB 128bit 19.2GB/sec 2.8(billion/sec) 2.0 Seems to me that the 8800GT wins from a hardware point of view. Plus I'm not sure if the FX cards can be used in SLI mode, which will make a huge difference too. M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 That may be true, but we found as you chuck more and more polys at them the games cards start to fall away. The cad cards just keep chewing them up, much more stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetu Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 I don't have either of those cards, but I'd take a newer generation high-end geforce over an older quadro. In the same generation, quadro of course. Also, I think SLI only doubles your fillrate and doesn't help you push more polygons - good for gaming but I doubt 3d content generation is ever fill-bound.. eetu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Yeah, mine is for my home machine so I had a few other things to consider (like games .. oh and photoshop). If it was for a work machine then I'm not sure which one I'd choose...probably the quadro. M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldon Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 anyone aware of any geforce 8800 performance differences under linux vs vista / xp 64? Or is there no significant difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyFrmn Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 I don't have anything technical but here are my impressions. I installed the 8800 GTX in September, about the same time I installed Ubuntu 7.10. The card runs well under Windows XP (not 64). No longer am I plagued by Houdini GUI redraw errors. The view port is smooth, and Houdini 9 would go longer then 10 minutes without crashing, About a week after I installed the card I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, Under Ubuntu after turning on the restricted drives, the 8800 is a dream, It runs smoothly, without issue or error, and gives me unneeded confidence. To be honest I was impressed how well the Ubuntu 7.10 and 8800 worked together. I would recommend this card to anyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 there seems to be a bug in the current (169.07) linux driver for gforce cards: The fan starts at 100% and never slows down. very annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Houdini really doesn't stress the fill rate of a modern graphics card, which is why you won't find much of a difference between various generations. The difference between the GEForce and Quadro *driver* though, is quite noticeable. The GEForce is tuned for games, the Quadro for graphics workstations, and it shows. The Quadro driver runs Houdini and other 3D apps very well, but tends to be noticeably slower playing games. Not that anyone here is playing games.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michal Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Any comment on GT9600 ? I'm going to buy some new components and want to listen to your guys' advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I believe the 9600GT is pretty close to the 8800GT. Not quite as fast, but it's cheaper and uses the same generation hardware so it should be good. You can search for 8800GT vs 9600GT and you'll get tons of comparisons... The 8800 is regarded as the better card though. Cheers Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 That's bizarre I always assumed the higher the number the better... have to watch out for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetu Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 A general rule of thumb for nvidia chips: - the thousands -part of the number is the chip generation - for the hundreds 100-200-ish are the low-end cards 500-600 are the mid-end cards 800-900 are the high-end cards - the letters in the end tend to be about the core and memory frequency (sometimes also # of shader units) Usually the next generation chips are about one "low-mid-high-end"-step faster than the previous gen. In other words, a medium-end card of a new generation is roughly equal to the high-end of the preceding gen. So, true to tradition, 9600 is roughly equal to 8800. This "rule" might be just lucky happenstance, but it has worked uncannily well for many chip generations now (with exceptions, of course) eetu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Interesting, cheers for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sascha Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Interesting, cheers for that I thought nVidia Series 8 cards are still pretty buggy under Linux. I heard the drivers are as slow as ATI drivers before they released completely new ones at the end of 2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetu Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 For the more adventurous among your here's a guide explaining how to soft-mod you geforce into a quadro. (Or perhaps a better wording would be "how to get quadro drivers to run with your geforce") I haven't tried it yet - if someone does, please tell us how it went eetu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 yeah, let me know too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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