Quardo FX1000 or GeForce FX5900

[CgFX]

Oh, yes. A big giant "yes!"

[Gentle Fury]

ummmm, where are you finding a Quadro FX1000 for $350???????????????????????????????????

the cheapest ive seen has been about $800

please share your source, cuz i want that deal too!!!!

[Synthetic Rayne]

No where... :surprised

I'm getting a completely new system.

I can either get an Alienware with the GeForce FX5900
or
a computer from ABS with the Quardo for the same price.

After shipping, taxes with Alienware(cuz I live in Florida) are all handled out, they end up costing exactly the same (Give or take $20.) So......

I was just wondering to choose which.. et cetera.

Sorry to mislead.

[Digiegg]

i think alienwear is a scam. bleh.
buit is the Quardo better than FX?

[Joel Hooks]

Q-U-A-D-R-O

heh

Go for the alienware if you want a kickass jetplane spaceship case. Go for the other if you want graphics performance.

[Nem]

go wiv the quadro!! i got mine the other day and just holding it in my hand made me feel great!! :D

[Synthetic Rayne]

Specs I've found on the two cards....

NVIDIA GeFORCE FX 5900 (NV35)
Chip Tecnonology 256-bit
Process 0.13 Micron
Transistors 130 Million
Memory Bus 256-bit DDR
Memory Bandwidth 27.2 GB/s
AGP Bus 1x/2x/4x/8x
Memory 128/256MB
GPU Clock 450 MHz
Memory Clock 425 MHz (850 DDR)
Textures per Texture Unit 16
Vertex Shader Version 2.0+
Pixel Shader Version 2.0+
DirectX Generation 9.0+
FSAA Mode IntelliSample HCT (multisampling)
Memory Optimizations Z, texture Colour Compression; UltraShadow; crossbar memory architecture
Display Outputs 3 (2 plus TV-out)
Chip Internal RAMDACS 2 x 400 MHz
Computational Precision 128-bit
Special TV Encoder On-Chip, DVC, VMR, CineFX 2.0, NView,NVKeystone, NVRotate,


Quadro FX100
GPU NVIDIA® Quadro FX1000
Memory 128MB DDRAM
Bus Type AGP 8X
RAMDAC Dual 400 MHz
OS Support Windows® 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP
Ports OpenGL stereo connector and Dual DVI Connector
12-bit subpixel precision
8 pixels per clock rendering engine
Hardware accelerated antialiased points & lines
Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
Hardware accelerated clipping planes
3rd-generation occlusion culling
16 textures per pixel
OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
AGP 8x with Fast Writes and sideband addressing
High-speed 128MB DDR2 memory
Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 2.0/DirectX 9.0 class)
Optimized compiler for Cg and Microsoft HLSL
16x Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA) up to 2048x1536 per display or 840x2400 for single digital display
Dual DVI output - Drives two independent digital displays at 600x1200, or one at 3840x2400
NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Fully compliant with professional OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9.0

I know that everyone's saying the Quadro.. but... why? (: Need more than just "QUADRO!"... hehe. Any particular reason? From looking at the specs... there is little difference, no? I don't know. Argh. All this gives me a headache. :shrug:

[Joel Hooks]

Hardware accelerated antialiased points & lines
Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
Hardware accelerated clipping planes


You can read and search this forum to figure out some comparisons. Quadro is a professional card built to run 3d applications at maximum performance. Geforce is a consumer card meant to run games at maximum performance. You won't make anybody here sad by paying $500 extra for a computer with a gaming card and fancy case. If you really wanted to get the geforce instead why not get it from ABS and save $500. That'll almost buy a copy of lightwave.

[Synthetic Rayne]

ABS doesn't have the GeForce FX5900.. only the 5800....

I like the ABS systems mucho better.

I chose alien because its the only other one that has a GeForce 5900....

I'm just trying to get as many different opinions as I can.

Believe it or not... most people (not from CG talk), told me to stick with the GeForce.....

(:

I'm trying to get all things into consideration.

(:

[dmeyer]

It really depends on what you do. If you play games and do CG as a hobby, go for the Geforce. If you do CG and game occasionally, go for the Quadro.

Another somewhat intagible but noticiable benefit of the Quadros is a lot better stability in some pro apps.

[Synthetic Rayne]

I am going to school for Comp Animation... so... (:

Thanks for all your help you beautiful people. (:

Kee

[Joel Hooks]

I have never had any stability problems with my Geforce cards. In fact, my computer with the Quadro has a crash on exit of Max every time (though it doesn't affect my work)

I use both cards (comparable anyway, just one generation back) and the Quadro is awesome for FX work - but I think that maybe in a non-production environment the Geforce would be more than adequate.

[Synthetic Rayne]

Hehe.. precisely me die-lem-ma

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