nVidia Quadro 2 MXR 32MB vs. Visiontek GeForce2 GTS/Pro 32MB - which is better?

[StattlichPassat]

I currently have the said Visiontek card, but have a great opportunity to pick up a Quadro card- would this be an upgrade or a downgrade? I don't do much gaming- I just want a Quadro card.

NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR
The NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR reference card has an AGP x2/x4 interface, 32 MBytes SDR SDRAM located in 4 chips on the right side of the PCB.

Brief characteritics:

Triangles per Second: 25 Million
Pixels Per Second: 400 Million
Memory Bandwidth: 2.93 GBytes/s
NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer (NSR)
Second Generation Transform and Lighting (T&L)
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
32-bit Z/Stencil Buffer
32 MBytes Unified Frame Buffer
AGP 4X with Fast Writes
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)

The NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR serves a base also for only one card - ELSA Sinergy III which is a reference card from ELSA; it comes with special software.

Reference from here

 

[Boogak]

The SDR memory cripples the Quadro2's performance (which I believe is based of the GeForce2 GPU). Plus Quadro drivers are optimized for CAD applications, not gaming. I'm not sure of any 2d quality differences, but unless you are a CAD user, I'd stick with your Visiontek.

 

[StattlichPassat]

Yeah, I believe my GF2 is DDR. Thanks for your input!

 

[ElFenix]

quadro 2 mx is a gf2mx with better drivers... your current card slaughters it at gaming

 

[StattlichPassat]

Heh, ok that's about the analogy that I was looking for. Thanks, Fenix.

 

[Rand]

If your actually going to use the board for it's intended purpose... CAD/DCC/3D Aniumation, Scientific visualization etc then I'd probably leant towards the Quadro 2 MXR... though it's worth mentioning for light 3D rendering and fillrate/texturing intensive CAD the GTS will manage to top it.
For ANY other tasks the GF2 GTS will be a considerably better board however, and you'll avoid the slight incompatibilities the Quadro has will a few games.

 

[dew042]

i can't attest to the quality of the quadro2, but i just got a quadro4 nvs 200 and it is hands down the sharpest card i have ever seen for 2d image quality. this comes from a longtime matrox diehard.

cheap off ebay too.

dew.