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How Much Performance Increase Can You Expect?

suntrace1 modded his NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX to the Quadro FX 4600. Here are his results, using this system :

Processors

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 2.13 GHz

Motherboard

Gigabyte G31M-S2L

Memory

Two Patriot 1GB PC2-5400 DDR2 modules

Graphics Card

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Graphics Drivers

GeForce ForceWare 6.14.11.7474
Quadro ForceWare 6.14.11.7474

Operating System

Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)

Monitor

Dell 2407WFP

Chassis

Apple G3

 

SPECviewperf 10

 

Unmodded

Soft-Modded

Difference

3ds Max

8.64

13.93

+ 61.2 %

CATIA

7.45

13.91

+ 86.7 %

EnSight

15.96

17.46

+9.4 %

Maya

31.01

30.46

- 1.8 %

Pro/ENGINEER

10.88

12.24

+ 12.5 %

SolidWorks

10.24

24.02

+ 134.6 %

UGS Teamcenter
Visualization Mockup

3.86

6.34

+ 64.3 %

USG NX

5.18

4.81

- 7.1 %

The softmod delivered excellent results in SolidWorks, CATIA, 3ds Max and UGS Teamcenter Visualization with some performance improvements in EnSight and Pro/ENGINEER. However, Maya and USG NX saw a small drop in performance.

 

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Topics


1

Introduction
Some Caveats

2

Step 1 : Identify & Verify Your GPU

3

Step 2 : Soft-Mod It Into A Quadro!

4

Step 3 : Install The Quadro Driver & Verify
That's It!

5

What Works?

6

How Much Performance Increase Can You Expect?

7

More Performance Results!

8

Even More Performance Results!

9

New Performance Results!

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Latest Performance Results!
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