Comments on: Benchmarking NVidia’s new Quadro 5000

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:15:30 +0000

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

By: Randall Hand

Randall Hand — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:18:08 +0000

@ 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.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:57:18 +0000

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

By: Randall Hand

Randall Hand — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:58:27 +0000

@ 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.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:53:14 +0000

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?

By: cosmopoasis

cosmopoasis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:08:32 +0000

Just wondering if the Fermi based cards are Mac compatible…

By: Randall Hand

Randall Hand — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:34:29 +0000

@ 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.

By: Nick D

Nick D — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:00:41 +0000

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…

By: Sean Ahern

Sean Ahern — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:30:24 +0000

I wonder if NVIDIA could give you a 6000.

By: Randall Hand

Randall Hand — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:33:29 +0000

@ chris True, but I don't know of many professional types that are using Stereo on 3 monitors.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:11:41 +0000

“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