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Red Falcon I should probably let go of the question about the Quadro 570 and 1700, but I was looking at nvidia's PDF's http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro_fx_product_literature.html At the bottom of page two, (of the 570 and 1700 pdf's) it lists the specs as identical, except one...

AreEss Great, someone who is opinionated. :) What else do I have? I don't have benchmarks for my application. I was wondering if I could create some sort of test.

Actually when I used the the phrase "OpenGL capable cards" I was referring to the main stream cards, and referring to the Quadro/FireGL cards as "cards with optimized drivers" I know I was incorrect in some of the things I said before.

So does that mean that the table at TechARP is incorrect? It lists both as having the G84GL GPU with 289M transistors @ 80nm, core speed 460MHz, 7360 Mtexels DDR2@400MHz, 128 bit bus, 12.8 GB/s

one other point about the 570. It does very well in some benchmarks, like SPECapc Solidworks 2007 Overall Score...

I never know what to make of the fill rate specs, I assume they apply mostly to high resolutions. I look at the other benchmarks more. According to this chart: (nvidia full list) http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=95 The 370,570 and 1700 all have the same GPU. the 370 has a...

pxc If you compare the scores if the link you provided to real Quadros, they are very poor. Even the low cost Quado FX 570 blows them away. The 570 is the same as a 1700 except it has 256MB and the 1700 has 512MB. Both are equivalent to a GeForce 8500...

Yes, no doubt. I appreciate your point about the difference between OpenGL capable cards, and cards with optimized drivers. If I wrote the OP over I, might not write it at all. I also appreciate your efforts to respond. I'm thinking now of waiting for the new cards from ATI and nvidia...

S I'll have to study that a while. Thanks for the link.

pxc At the bottom right corner of the page you provided in the link above it says "Good graphic cards like nVidia quadro"

Yes I'm having performance problems, but thats because my current computer is an antique. I just bought a computer off of ebay that I haven't received yet. (Athlon64 X2 6000+) I'm currently running a 21" CRT at 1600 x 1200, but I've been drooling over the new 30" LCD's. At 2560 x 1600...

All I can tell you is to read the article and the associated forum thread. There was also some discussion in this thread. http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/29160-quadro-fx1700-geforce-8800gt.html The results are not equal to a real Quadro. Since there are no IronCAD benchmarks, I usually...

I run IronCAD

I'm not sure what all that means, but some people have been hacking the Quadro drivers onto their GeForce cards. So called "soft modding" They do improve the benchmarks for CAD applications, compared to the stock Geforce drivers, but the scores are nowhere near a real Quadro card. There...