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How Much Performance Increase Can You Expect?
zentrani also modded his NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX to the Quadro FX 4600. Here are his results, using this system :
Processors |
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53 GHz |
Motherboard |
ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 |
Memory |
Two Apacer 1GB PC2-5300 DDR2 modules |
Graphics Card |
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX |
Graphics Drivers |
GeForce ForceWare 190.62 |
SPECviewperf 10
|
Unmodded |
Soft-Modded |
Difference |
3ds Max |
9.34 |
16.13 |
+ 72.7 % |
CATIA |
8.32 |
15.38 |
+ 84.9 % |
EnSight |
16.43 |
19.46 |
+ 18.4 % |
Maya |
29.92 |
30.13 |
+ 0.7 % |
Pro/ENGINEER |
11.98 |
13.16 |
+ 9.9 % |
SolidWorks |
8.22 |
23.42 |
+ 184.9 % |
UGS Teamcenter |
4.01 |
6.62 |
+ 65.1 % |
USG NX |
5.27 |
5.27 |
+/- 0.0 % |
As you can see, the softmod delivered the best results in SolidWorks, CATIA, 3ds Max and UGS Teamcenter Visualization with significant performance improvements in EnSight and Pro/ENGINEER. However, Maya and USG NX saw almost no improvement in performance.
Performance Compared With A True Quadro
zentrani also took the trouble to benchmark a Quadro FX 1700 which is a "lower-end" workstation graphics card based on the NVIDIA G84 GPU.
|
Soft-Modded |
Real |
Difference |
3ds Max |
16.13 |
37.12 |
- 56.5 % |
CATIA |
15.38 |
38.85 |
- 60.4 % |
EnSight |
19.46 |
26.32 |
- 26.1 % |
Maya |
30.13 |
60.00 |
- 49.8 % |
Pro/ENGINEER |
13.16 |
36.43 |
- 63.9 % |
SolidWorks |
23.42 |
48.20 |
- 51.4 % |
UGS Teamcenter |
6.62 |
18.49 |
- 64.2 % |
USG NX |
5.27 |
16.40 |
- 67.9 % |
So, a genuine NVIDIA Quadro card is at least 2X faster than a soft-modded NVIDIA GeForce card. However, NVIDIA prices the Quadro cards at ridiculously high prices which are often 4-10X higher than the equivalent GeForce cards. As such, soft-modded GeForce cards definitely offer much better value for money, even if they do run much slower than the "real" things.
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| Date | Revision | Revision History |
09-05-2008 |
1.0 |
Comprehensive review release. |
20-05-2008 |
2.0 |
Added two new pages on what works with the soft-mod and the performance increase you can expect from it. |
13-06-2008 |
3.0 |
Added a new page with performance results from the soft-modding of an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB and an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT to the Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 1700 respectively. |
19-08-2008 |
3.1 |
Added a new page with performance results from the soft-modding of an NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT to the Quadro FX 3500. |
15-01-2009 |
4.0 |
Added a new page with performance results from the soft-modding of an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX to the Quadro FX 4600. |
05-09-2009 |
4.1 |
Added a new page with performance results from the soft-modding of an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX to the Quadro FX 4600. |
