looking for a workstation card....

[HardD99]

ok my boss asked me to pick out a new gfx card, i am looking at the Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 and ATI FIREGL V3300 128MB PCIE/V3400. i am having a really hard time choosing what would be better. the new firegl's have ddr2 and ddr3 ram respectively and they are newly released cards so i cant find any reviews. the FX1300 which has been around a couple years is a very respected card but spending money on 2 yr old technology kinda sux. can anyone help me with my decision, maybe give me some goods/bads of each card? it would be greatly apprciated!

 

[leSLIe]

the problem is how much do u want to spend? if money if not an option you could go for the Quadro FX 4500, that is around $1800, i´ve been working with those cards for some time and are good, u could also play doom3. But if u really want to break your piggy bank u should go for the either a FX 4500 X2 (two GPUs in one card) or the Quadro FX 5500, which i believe is the lastest vid card from nvidia. I dont have experience with Ati Cad cards.

 

[ElMoIsEviL]

Workstation?

Quadro... ATi's is not the best at OpenGL workstation cards. They're the best in gaming and Multimedia cards however.

 

[chinesepiratefood]

Being the best is a pretty broad statement that you should likely put your flame shield on for because the !!!!!!s will be out

But NVIDIA has had control of the professional market for a long time

 

[Yashu]

I think the FX1300 is based on the geforceFX series, where the FX1400 is the lower end quadro based on the 6 series.

I would go with the FX1400 quadro if you are looking for good workstation card that isn't over $1000


now, I will also say, that you can buy an AGP 6800gs right now and you can run a simple modification that will turn it into a quadro FX4000 and that is a fast fucking workstation card still (over $1000 new).

but only the 6800GS agp works because it is based on the NV40 core. it has to be NV40 for the mod to work. the 6800GT and ultra and NU cards also work but are no longer made.

you can find a few early 6800gt PCIe cards that are nv40 based and have a translation to PCIe chip... they work too but are a crapshoot to find.


but right now the absolute best deal on workstation graphics is 6800gs mod to quadro FX4000.

 

[Yoshiyuki Blade]

Being the best is a pretty broad statement that you should likely put your flame shield on for because the !!!!!!s will be out

But NVIDIA has had control of the professional market for a long time

The vast majority (with no extensive experience with workstation cards) aren't going to be able to hold their arguments, so it'll be easy to ignore them . I for example have zero experience in workstation cards, so I basically have nothing valuable to contribute to this thread . However I do agree that "best" is a broad term, but I don't know for sure. Hopefully there won't be a team of bashers with experience out there lol.

 

[yevaud]

ok my boss asked me to pick out a new gfx card, i am looking at the Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 and ATI FIREGL V3300 128MB PCIE/V3400. i am having a really hard time choosing what would be better. the new firegl's have ddr2 and ddr3 ram respectively and they are newly released cards so i cant find any reviews. the FX1300 which has been around a couple years is a very respected card but spending money on 2 yr old technology kinda sux. can anyone help me with my decision, maybe give me some goods/bads of each card? it would be greatly apprciated!

I haven't seen an updated set of benches, but here is one from 2004 that may help you out. What program(s) are you looking to use this card on? From what I saw reading the article, your choice may depend on it.

 

[HardD99]

hey thx for all the replies guys, i ended up just giving by boss the rundown of the 2 cards and telling him to make the decision, lol. the thing is i doubt im even going to use the card for what its meant for. im doing mainly programming, and database related stuff. i really appriciate all your replies guys, ill let me boss know what everyone said.