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Benchmarking Workstation Cards

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Angelus897

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Does anyone know a good, free software for benchmarking workstation video cards? The reason I'm asking is because the primary application that we run at my workplace is AutoCAD 2008. We use a wide variety of cards ranging from old Quadro 2 AGP cards to current high end cards like the FX3500. We also purchased a couple of lower end cards like the FX570 and 1700 so it'd be nice to see how they compare with our higher end 3500. Any advice/suggestions is appreciated. Thanks!
 
I had a fx3500 and its a godawful card for gaming :p It wasn't made for that but for the price its godawful .
 
leoftw said:
I had a fx3500 and its a godawful card for gaming :p It wasn't made for that but for the price its godawful .
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I actually thought the card would be worse than it is in gaming. But then like you said, it's built with a different purpose in mind. Price isn't too bad for a high end workstation card.
 
Don't know if anyone is interested, but here's a result of all 4 video cards I tested today. They were run with the latest Quadro ForceWare driver 162.65 (I will be testing 169.61 and POWERdraft drivers at a later time). I ran the internal benchmark in AutoCAD Arch 2008 (will do a Cadalyst at a later time) and 3DMark06 (just for shits and giggles).

Cards Tested:
Quadro FX570 256MB - 2,258 Marks; 1109 fps CAD08
Quadro FX1700 512MB - 3,395 Marks; 1102 fps CAD08
Quadro FX3500 256MB - 4,296 Marks; 1809 fps CAD08
Radeon HD2900 Pro 512MB (512-bit ver) - 8,518 Marks; 803 fps CAD08

This was done on a Dell Workstation 490 with a single Xeon 5140 (2.33GHz) and 4GB of FB-DDR2 667 RAM. That just shows how different workstation and gaming cards really are. The HD2900Pro was the fastest of the group in a "gaming" type application, while being the slowest in CAD rendering.
 
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