Graphics cards
Graphics cards
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Does anyone know of a reputable website where I may compare benchmark tests of the latest graphics cards and read reviews related to SolidWorks? My company has tasked me with finding new graphics cards for our workstations. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.






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Its going to vary on how big your assemblies and drawings are going to be very complex and large assemblies get the highest end card you can afford.
Other then that there is no formal benchmarks... so pick on in the green and whaty ou can afford and go.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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I am writing my first article (the first for my own site) about this at the moment, I'm going to benchmark some different workstation hardware.
The hardware I have available:
Graphics cards:
HP / nVidia Quadro FX 1400 (128MB)
PNY / nVidia Quadro FX 3500 (256MB)
and perhaps I'll throw in a gaming card if I can borrow one.
CPUs:
AMD Opteron 175 (will be tested on stock 2.2GHz and a proven stable 2.65GHz)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (will be tested on 2.2GHz, the stock 2.4GHz and a stable 3.4GHz)
Further I will test the influence of using a single hard drive (single WD Raptor 74GB) and three of those in a RAID5 array.
100Mbit lan vs 1000Mbit lan is being considered.
This is just a hobby project, but if you have certain things you would like to see tested I can see what I can do.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
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Does it sound like we would need more than 128Mb of VRAM? Presently, we have 512Mb on Wildcat VP990 Pros, but these cards are 2 1/2 years old and were bought because they were extremely cheap back then. They have never really done a good job.
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Graphics cards
With what you're doing, you may want to consider the nVidia Quadro FX 1400 as your baseline ("mid-range") and cards with greater RAM as good candidates (higher-end), like Scott said above.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Graphics cards
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html