Quadro is geared towards OpenGL apps like 3dmax, autocad, etc. I work for an oil company that uses em for seismic 3D rendering. When I tested to Quadro against the 8800 in 3Dmark (aimed at gaming graphics performance benchmarking), 8800 was 30 to 50% faster. There's another Benchmarking tool that wraps up 3Dmax run times etc.. sorry I can't recall the name right now but it was aimed at the Quardo class cards. 8800 performed a 20% of what the Quadros can do.
But, if you don't believe me, by all means go out and buy a Quadro 5700 so you can see for yourself... it's only 4200 bucks.
That's because even when the GeForce's chipsets are almost the same as the ones in the Quadro ones, their drivers are completely different. The Quadro are targered towards stability, while the GeForce go faster and faster to maintain frame rates. That's why Quadro are almost exclusive to 3D modeling, and that's why GeForce's are unstable when working with modeling software.
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No! It CAN'T run doom!
Crysis...maybe
Using nVIDIA Quadro for a game is a waste (and it would be laggy).
@ark
...why do you have to come in with a serious comment? I was doing it to ruin the joke before 18 people posted the same thing.
@Ark
Forgive me for this noobish question, but why is that? What would cause the Quadro to perform that much poorly?
Quadro is geared towards OpenGL apps like 3dmax, autocad, etc. I work for an oil company that uses em for seismic 3D rendering. When I tested to Quadro against the 8800 in 3Dmark (aimed at gaming graphics performance benchmarking), 8800 was 30 to 50% faster. There's another Benchmarking tool that wraps up 3Dmax run times etc.. sorry I can't recall the name right now but it was aimed at the Quardo class cards. 8800 performed a 20% of what the Quadros can do.
But, if you don't believe me, by all means go out and buy a Quadro 5700 so you can see for yourself... it's only 4200 bucks.
That's because even when the GeForce's chipsets are almost the same as the ones in the Quadro ones, their drivers are completely different. The Quadro are targered towards stability, while the GeForce go faster and faster to maintain frame rates. That's why Quadro are almost exclusive to 3D modeling, and that's why GeForce's are unstable when working with modeling software.