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Benchmarking NVidia’s new Quadro 5000

July 27th, 2010 Randall Hand

Maya Benchmarks

Another product that does a good job illustrating some of the raw power in the new Quadro 5000 is Maya. I personally don’t have a lot of experience with Maya, so I relied instead on the SPECapc Maya 2009 benchmark to do the testing instead. The full test, which takes approximately 4 hours to complete, generates approximately 200 unique test results covering characters, creatures, and environments rendering in wireframe, solid, and fully textured modes. To prevent overwhelming you with charts, here’s some of the more impressive ones.

Again, you see massive improvements when using the Quadro 5000. These are, like I said above, the most dramatic cases, but the Quadro 5000 offers a noticeable benefit in almost every benchmark case.

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Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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chris
“Add in the support for the new OptiX 2, 3d Vision Pro technology” but you would need 2 cards to do stereo on 3 monitors? makes it expensive
Randall Hand
@ chris True, but I don’t know of many professional types that are using Stereo on 3 monitors.
Sean Ahern
I wonder if NVIDIA could give you a 6000.
Nick D
Randall,
Other than drivers and memory, can you tell me why the 480 core nVidia GTX 480 would not be better than the Quadro 5000 with only 352 cores?
After waiting so long, I am really disappointed the Quadros don’t have the same AND more cores than the GTX 480…
Randall Hand
@ Nick D Well, for reasons similar to why you would choose a Quadro4800 over a GTX285. The GTX285 has 240 cores [link], while the Quadro4800 only has 192 [link], but you can look at the benchmarks I posted and see how the Quadro4800 smokes the GTX285 in several benchmarks.
While more cores is nice, it’s not the sole indicator of performance. The Quadro cards are optimized to use the advanced graphics features not typically used by games, but frequently used by CAD & Visualization products. Because of these optimizations, a Quadro will always beat a GeForce when those features come into play.
cosmopoasis
Just wondering if the Fermi based cards are Mac compatible…
Matt
Randall,
thanks for posting your assessment. I habe a pretty basic question as I am in no way an expert in graphics hardware. Do I benefit of the new GPU with all kinds of workstations or do I need to have a minimal configuration in terms of CPU, working memory etc. to really feel the difference between, let’s say, a 5000 and its predecessor, the 4800?
Randall Hand
@ Matt It depends heavily on the application, and faster/newer is always better. But, if you’re in the CAD or 3d Graphics market then I’m pretty sure you would see some improvement.
Griffin
Randall,
Thanks a lot for the review, please keep up the great work.
I was wondering if you could clarify the test setup, It was my understanding that Xeon 5550′s could only run 2-way, not 4-way like the 7500′s? Could you please shed some light on your system and its configuration.
Thanks a lot for your time
Randall Hand
@ Griffin Doh, you’re right.. I just checked the BIOS, I’ve got 2 Xeon 5550′s (8 cores) with HyperThreading enabled. I missed that. I’ll update the article.
Martijn
Dear Randall,
My company is involved in marine simulation (both for training and research purposes). We will upgrade to Presagis Vega Prime. We are currently debating the choice for a GTX 480 or Quadro 5000 for our image generator PCs in our simulators. Our Visual Database development workstations run on the Quadro GTX 4800.
I am curious to hear your advise!
Kind regards,
Martijn