- Jan 23, 2007
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My youngest son installed a new Steam game that has a decent amount of 3D stuff going on, and he found it jerky. I was surprised, but then I looked at the system, and found that it did NOT have a Radeon RX 550 graphics card installed like our other 2 systems do. Instead, it had a GT 740. I found someone on here selling a couple of Quadro K2200 video cards for $30 each, shipped.
Turned out to be a pretty nice upgrade:
Geforce GT 740 64 Watts 1,540 G3D Marks
Quadro K2200 68 Watts 3,532 G3D Marks
= 129% performance increase, for about the same amount of power
This should be fine for us for another 4-5 years or so, until I eventually find a used deal on a Radeon RX 6400
for around 50 bucks.... (or similar performing Nvidia card in the 55 Watts or under range)
Radeon RX 6400 53 Watts 7,375 G3D Marks
Turned out to be a pretty nice upgrade:
Geforce GT 740 64 Watts 1,540 G3D Marks
Quadro K2200 68 Watts 3,532 G3D Marks
= 129% performance increase, for about the same amount of power
This should be fine for us for another 4-5 years or so, until I eventually find a used deal on a Radeon RX 6400
for around 50 bucks.... (or similar performing Nvidia card in the 55 Watts or under range)
Radeon RX 6400 53 Watts 7,375 G3D Marks