**UPDATE**
Thought I'd post an update in case anyone else out there was looking for the same advice.
I took the plunge and ended up purchasing an AMD FirePro 5800 graphics card. After a little more research on the Internet, I found that the 5800 performed relatively close to the same...
I found some decent reviews of the V3800, V4800, V5800, and V7800. Some comparisons to the Quadro 4000 and Quadro 5000 as well.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_firepro_v4800_v7800&num=1
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMD-ATI-FirePro-Roundup-V7800-V4800-V3800/?page=1...
Yea, my mistake. I looked up some reviews on the V7800 and the power consumption is around 150W-idle and 250W-load. Average temp is around 60 degrees Celsius.
Yea, that is a pretty big difference. Do you know what feature they were testing for that particular benchmark? Scores are nice to look at but frames per second would be a better statistic to compare.
I'm starting to lean more towards your first suggestion, the V7800. It's a bit cheaper than...
Yea, I posted over there too but haven't gotten as many responses as I have here.
I think I need to re-evaluate how much I really need one of these cards. Paying $600, $700, or more for a graphics card is kind of a hard pill to swallow. The Quadro 2000 and the FirePro V5800, while cheaper...
Hey, 3DVagabond. Thanks for the input. Yea, I agree, viewport performance seems to be the only place where workstation cards outperform game-based cards. Especially when it comes to large-scale or high-poly scenes. If I'm going to be messing around with Mudbox or zBrush though, it might be best...
That was an interesting review, but they were basically comparing rendering speeds with 3DSMax 2010 and Lightwave 9.6. Rendering speeds aren't very helpful when comparing video cards as rendering relies heavily on the CPU, not the GPU.
It seems the main advantage of workstation graphics cards...
Yeah, there haven't been many articles written that really compare the Quadro Fermis' to the Firepros'. I've found one or two, but the one seemed really biased towards Nvidia. They didn't use the latest ATI drivers at the time of the review which basically meant take it with a grain of salt. I...
Hey, Slacker. I read that article the other day. It was very informative about the FirePro cards, but it didn't compare them to the new Quadro (Fermi) cards that Nvidia released shortly after that article was published. According to new benchmarks being published lately the Quadro (Fermi) cards...
Hey, 96Firebird. Thanks for your input. 3DSMax 2011 does support CUDA, but the only feature that seems to take advantage of the CUDA technology right now is the new Mental Ray iRay rendering engine that's included in the Subscription Advantage Pack of 3DSMax.
I've also noticed in my research...
Hello,
Im currently in the market for a graphics card for my new workstation. This will be my first workstation graphics card ever. Im stuck choosing between 4 different cards:
(Current cost range in parenthesis)
Quadro (Fermi) 2000 (~ $450)
Quadro (Fermi) 4000 (~ $700)
ATI FirePro...
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