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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
The hardware probably don't mean much unless you are a workstation user. I
just read the article for the pictures. Nothing quite like two massive video cards that don't require a kickstand... ATi even went as far as putting a gusset in the heatsink plate, making it a semi-stressed structural member. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...Card_Shootout/ -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
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The hardware probably don't mean much unless you are a workstation user. I just read the article for the pictures. Nothing quite like two massive video cards that don't require a kickstand... ATi even went as far as putting a gusset in the heatsink plate, making it a semi-stressed structural member. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...Card_Shootout/ Thanks for the link. Having upgraded from Quadro FX 4600 to the Quadro FX 5600 recently I found that a very interesting read. IMHO they should have used a dual processor system as a single CPU system probably can't bring any of these GPUs to their limits. Benjamin |
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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
"Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... * First of One: The hardware probably don't mean much unless you are a workstation user. I just read the article for the pictures. Nothing quite like two massive video cards that don't require a kickstand... ATi even went as far as putting a gusset in the heatsink plate, making it a semi-stressed structural member. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...Card_Shootout/ Thanks for the link. Having upgraded from Quadro FX 4600 to the Quadro FX 5600 recently I found that a very interesting read. IMHO they should have used a dual processor system as a single CPU system probably can't bring any of these GPUs to their limits. Benjamin There was a quad core CPU in their test bed. I think all of the programs they used to test are multi-core/processor aware, so if a quad-core processor can't remove any sort of CPU limitations from the equation, I don't think adding a second processor would. RF. |
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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
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There was a quad core CPU in their test bed. I think all of the programs they used to test are multi-core/processor aware, so if a quad-core processor can't remove any sort of CPU limitations from the equation, I don't think adding a second processor would. No matter how much cores you have a single CPU system (at least if it uses intel processors) *always* is limited by the bus system (FSB). A dual processor system has two independent FSBs, raising the FSB bottleneck by a a noticeable amount. I'd always take a dual dual-core system over a single quad-core system. Benjamin |
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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
"Benjamin Gawert" wrote in message ... * RF: There was a quad core CPU in their test bed. I think all of the programs they used to test are multi-core/processor aware, so if a quad-core processor can't remove any sort of CPU limitations from the equation, I don't think adding a second processor would. No matter how much cores you have a single CPU system (at least if it uses intel processors) *always* is limited by the bus system (FSB). A dual processor system has two independent FSBs, raising the FSB bottleneck by a a noticeable amount. I'd always take a dual dual-core system over a single quad-core system. Benjamin Ah yes, that's true. I hadn't thought of that. Be interested to see a benchmark between the two systems. Would there actually be enough data going through the FSB to saturate it? RF. |
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FireGL V8650 Vs. NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 Review
* RF:
No matter how much cores you have a single CPU system (at least if it uses intel processors) *always* is limited by the bus system (FSB). A dual processor system has two independent FSBs, raising the FSB bottleneck by a a noticeable amount. Ah yes, that's true. I hadn't thought of that. Be interested to see a benchmark between the two systems. I can't remember any benchmarks on the web but at work we did several application benchmarks between dual dual-core systems and single quad-core systems. The dual dual-core system always performed better, sometimes just a tad (5%, so barely measureable and not noticeable), often very noticeably (20%). Would there actually be enough data going through the FSB to saturate it? With two FSB1333 processors, yes. Definitely. But even with a single CPU system the test is very interesting and shows that (unlike for games) in the professional market there simply is not the fastest gfx card for all purposes. ATI/AMD for example always was strong in Maya, and if you do Maya you'd be stupid to spend the money for a Quadro FX 5600 when a much cheaper FireGL brings you more performance. I don't use Maya so I'm better of with the Quadro. Benjamin |
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