8800 vs 5600

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I use video card for mostly playing games, but recently i find myself more and more into CAD and 3dsmax.

I know very little about Quatro cards, but on paper they look like a better version of 8800. I searched the net, but didnt find any benchmarks of how 5600 peforms in games. Id does peform admirably in CAD/3D though.
 
I've always heard that workstation cards (be it Quadro or FireGL) aren't great at gaming. Something about driver limitations.
 
First when i read this i tough you wanted to know if the GeForce 8800 beat a GeForce FX 5600 :p
 
AliP said:
First when i read this i tough you wanted to know if the GeForce 8800 beat a GeForce FX 5600 :p
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my first thought as well, then two secons later i was like "hmm, this guy must be wondering if an amd x2 5600 would bottleneck a GF8800"

anyway, my advice, as long as the 3d stuff is still a hobby, and not a paid for job, dont bother with a quadro. The only difference is drivers, but the cards do cost 3-4 times that of the equivalent Geforce hardware.

and old generations of GF cards could be softmodded to be seen as quadros >> install quadro drivers and your done, im not sure if that is still possible on 8 series cards though
 
From what I've heard, they're not much good for gaming at all. They might do alright, but you could probably do better with a $250 gaming card.

Unless you're filthy rich, I don't know how you could justify buying a 5600 though... $3000 seems a little steep, especially considering how close it is to an 8800GTX.
 
lol, darn, but yea for gaming they are pretty bad, i think they are somewhere around an ati 1800 performance wise, and that's a big maybe
 
So what does a $3000 card get you that's worth paying for?

It must do other things really really well?
 
jmackay said:
Its built for rendering and 3d work not for gaming.
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nope, it is built the same way as a GF8800GTX, perhaps with double memory, and a different BIOS (or perhaps hardwired ID), the architecture is the same, its the drivers which are highly optimised for 3d work
 
No it dosent assist the fial render it just help with the manipulations of the mesh etc... The final render is still gonna take the same time. The difference is the driver, if someone modded the drivers to run on a 8800GTX then it would work. The drivers of the Quatro suck in games tho.

If the final render speed improvement is your goal, get yourself a Mac Pro with Dual Quad Core CPU's + bootcamp or a similar PC...
 
markintosh13 said:
As in... it actually assists in doing the render?

Wouldn't more cpu cores be more cost effective?
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It renders the viewport. It does not have any effect on the final rendering of a scene. That is all CPU and memory intensive more than anything else.
 
If you look at the specs the 8800 GTX has twice the theoretical texture fillrate as the Quadro FX 5600, so I think there could be some real hardware differences.
 
If your renduring hookers, make sure you crank up (no pun intended) the AA/AF... Nobody likes a case of the jaggies!
 
Nvidia has its own GPU-accelerated renderer called Gelato for Quadro cards. Geforce cards are not officially supported but may still work with it.

I bought a Quadro 4600 on ebay for $1000 and will be testing it in a few weeks when I finish my build. I've been using a soft-modded 6800GT, so it'll be interesting to see how it compares. I wonder if Geforce drivers can be used with the Quadro for improved game performance.
 
AliP said:
First when i read this i tough you wanted to know if the GeForce 8800 beat a GeForce FX 5600 :p
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lol same here and I was going to click the reply button right away and say The
8800 series blows the 5600 out of the water :D, anyways someone was saying how a firegl card isn't good for gaming.. well I am using a ati fire gl x3 2566(agp) in my amd system and I could run bf2 on high, 1024x740 res and get 60+fps. But now my 8800gts = ownage running bf2 everything high... 2x anti aliasing, 1600x1200res(ea needs to make a patch to make the game run at 1920x1200 :p, and the lowest fps ive gotten was 70fps so far.
 
DrFreeze said:
nope, it is built the same way as a GF8800GTX, perhaps with double memory, and a different BIOS (or perhaps hardwired ID), the architecture is the same, its the drivers which are highly optimised for 3d work
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Besides I believe its the Bios if anything the way it controls ram and its shader because . I run the Qaudro 106.02 drivers on my 8800Gts320 and the Drivers give me higher FPS, all games run smoother, performance is more responsive in desktop apps..By far the Nvidia contol panel even gave me the same options as the 158.22 driver! X64 Xp Pro

Just my 2cents
 
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