I've been testing Quadro cards at work for the last month. We've landed on the 4600 which is a 1500$ card compared to these that are each close to $3K. PRoblem with the 5600 is the 1.5 GB of RAM eats your system RAM space in a 32bit environment.
Anyway the 8800 GTX blows these out of the water in crysis or any gaming application. Something like 80 to 100% difference.
Run an OpenGL app on the 8800 and you may as well put up a chair. A single frame took a full second or more while the 4600 was pulling 40-80 FPS.
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I've been testing Quadro cards at work for the last month. We've landed on the 4600 which is a 1500$ card compared to these that are each close to $3K. PRoblem with the 5600 is the 1.5 GB of RAM eats your system RAM space in a 32bit environment.
Anyway the 8800 GTX blows these out of the water in crysis or any gaming application. Something like 80 to 100% difference.
Run an OpenGL app on the 8800 and you may as well put up a chair. A single frame took a full second or more while the 4600 was pulling 40-80 FPS.
So in short, don't bother with a quadro for Doom