That was extremely well written, to the point where it was fun to read even though I am only marginally interested in workstation graphics. Great article!
That was extremely well written, to the point where it was fun to read even though I am only marginally interested in workstation graphics. Great article!
Hey, dumb dumb. When your video is shorter than the commercial we're required to watch before it, it might be a good idea to use a YouTube embed instead.
I think I'll have to start saving, This is the kind of CUDA monster I've been hoping to put in my machine. I'm just sad it'll take me years to save up for a $5000 card.
I wounder how long it will take for adobe to release an update to the mercury playback engine that will support these new fermi Quadro cards???
LokloMedia - SPEC removed 3DS Max from their ViewPerf suite with release 11, they replaced it with Lightwave. Not sure why they did this, but Lightwave is a good addition.
Photodude - Adobe reps at SIGGRAPH are already demoing Mercury Playback on Quadro 5000 and 6000 GPUs at NVIDIA's booth. If they haven't implemented a patch that gives support yet, they will very soon.
So, is the GPU actually more powerful? Or, is it just the 5gig of memory that's powering the results. You make it sound like real time rendering power is a non factor. Is that your actual stance? Also, no factoring in the 4 fold price difference between the V8800 and the 6000. Nor have you mentioned anything about power consumption or how much cooler the V8800 runs. Just some synthetic results. It would be helpful if you fired up some real graphics apps. for a comparison.
It's the GPU. Fermi introduced a new raster architecture that can handle much more triangles than any other GPU before.
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I wonder how well it folds.
Given the GPU on the card has 448 Cuda cores (shaders), I would assume it's Folding production would be similar to a GTX 470, which is the same Fermi architecture and also has 448 shaders. The Quadro 6000 has a different PCB and tons more video memory than either the GTX 470 or 480, but for Folding, at least with Nvidia GPUs/video cards, shader count and shader clocks are the most important performance factors. I did not find a shader clock specification for the Quadro, but I assume (yes, assuming, again) that it's probably about the same as the 470 or 480.
I'm trying to find anyone who can give an educated guess as to how well the new Quadro 4000 will stack up against a V8800, since those two are the closest in price. Anyone here have an opinion on that?
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It Would be great if you'd use your own independent tests for those applications - you could use Demo/Trial versions maybe. Thanks for the review anyway.
Morgoth - the price difference is a huge factor in these GPUs. The Quadro 5000 and 6000 may push pixels better, but when the FirePro GPUs perform as well as they do at a fraction of the cost, that plays a huge roll in purchase deciding factor. CUDA not withstanding, I'd be hard pressed to find the price of the Quadro 5000 or 6000 convincing if I were to buy one of these GPUs.
Also, we did have plans to set up our own independant tests, but under the time frame we had with this GPU, building a new test setup didn't happen. We do have plans to establish our own testing methodologies in the future for more accurate real-world results.
El Guapo, as far as I understand, no publication has been given the Quadro 4000 for review. I could be wrong, but everyone I've spoken with at SIGGRAPH and at other places, no one has put their own eyes on that GPU yet. Honestly, I think the Quadro 5000 is going to compare closer to the FirePro v8800 than the 4000 will, but again, I'm really not sure without having it on the test bench.
Icrontic does have a Quadro 5000 on the way, so expect a review of it some time soon in the future.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm on the brink of building a workstation pc for 3D, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, etc. Everyone says I'm going to want CUDA, but is the 5000 really worth the ~$700 premium over the V8800? Tough call.
sorry, i had to write that.
can this card be used for gaming or is a GeForce 580 better? I don't see the difference between the GeForce and Quadro series...
This card is RADICALLY inferior to a GTX 580 (or virtually any modern GPU) for gaming. Likewise, the Quadro series is RADICALLY superior to any gaming GPU for 3D modeling and rendering.
You can move the contents of your house with a Prius (eventually).
You can commute 3 blocks in a semi truck.
But you're much better off doing it the other way around. Each is vastly more suited for their designed workload, even though they can serve much of the same purpose.
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Same for me, great article !
I wounder how long it will take for adobe to release an update to the mercury playback engine that will support these new fermi Quadro cards???
Photodude - Adobe reps at SIGGRAPH are already demoing Mercury Playback on Quadro 5000 and 6000 GPUs at NVIDIA's booth. If they haven't implemented a patch that gives support yet, they will very soon.
Quadro 6000 = 4000 EUR +
Quadro 5000 = 2000 EUR +
ATi FirePro v8800 = 1000 EUR +
ATi FirePro v7800 = 600 EUR +
See the price difference?
4 x Ati v8800 cards = 1 x Quadro 6000 card
SpecView 11 = synthetic ( driver specific optimization ) = not a real world performance
It Would be great if you'd use your own independent tests for those applications - you could use Demo/Trial versions maybe. Thanks for the review anyway.
Also, we did have plans to set up our own independant tests, but under the time frame we had with this GPU, building a new test setup didn't happen. We do have plans to establish our own testing methodologies in the future for more accurate real-world results.
El Guapo, as far as I understand, no publication has been given the Quadro 4000 for review. I could be wrong, but everyone I've spoken with at SIGGRAPH and at other places, no one has put their own eyes on that GPU yet. Honestly, I think the Quadro 5000 is going to compare closer to the FirePro v8800 than the 4000 will, but again, I'm really not sure without having it on the test bench.
Icrontic does have a Quadro 5000 on the way, so expect a review of it some time soon in the future.
All in all, great review!!!
sorry, i had to write that.
can this card be used for gaming or is a GeForce 580 better? I don't see the difference between the GeForce and Quadro series...
You can move the contents of your house with a Prius (eventually).
You can commute 3 blocks in a semi truck.
But you're much better off doing it the other way around. Each is vastly more suited for their designed workload, even though they can serve much of the same purpose.
Also, that's why this article is in Blue, not Orange.