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nVidia Quadro FX Go 1400

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IanE

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Thinking about a laptop. I'm going to need it for college for feature fillm animation and visual effects, so I'll be doing a lot of 3D work, but on the side I'd like to be able to have the laptop work as well as my desktop with the 6800GT. Would the Go 1400 be a good card for gaming, since it's a production card?

If anyone has any comparisons to the two, personal experiences or any helpful links that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Ian
 
Well, the Quadro FX 1400 is essentially a much-higher clocked 6800 Ultra. However, the driver optimization isn't quite there so I'm not sure how it would fare in games.
 
It will be very bad compared to a 6800GT in gaming though it will win in CAD applications.
As the 6800GT has 16 pipelines versus the Quadro's mere 8.
Also, the Quadro's memory clock is at a tiny 300MHz.

Not enough performance for games.
 
Hrm... would it be more practical to just get a 6800 Ultra then, save some money? I'd only be using it for when I'm not working in the labs at school, so not having a monster production card won't hurt, just as long as I can enjoy games and not have trouble in animation/video.

Any thoughts on that?
 
Originally posted by: Kensai
It will be very bad compared to a 6800GT in gaming though it will win in CAD applications.
As the 6800GT has 16 pipelines versus the Quadro's mere 8.
Also, the Quadro's memory clock is at a tiny 300MHz.

Not enough performance for games.
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What he said.
However, even if a production card has superior performance, it wouldn't work well in games (very bad indeed).
 
Problem allways with "Professional" cards is, that they will try to render everything as perfectly as possible. Gaming with a quadro looks awesome... with horrible framerates.
You can ofcourse tweak the settings, but if gaming is any priority, go with a normal consumer card and save your money.
 
I'll just settle for a 6800 Ultra then, my 6800Gt currently runs Maya without any problems.

Thanks for the help guys, keep it coming if you have more comments.
 
hrmm..I could have sworn the 6800 Go Ultra was still a 12 piped variant of the original 6800 Go using GDDR3, rather than GDDR1, and with higher clock speeds.
 
Originally posted by: Ronin
hrmm..I could have sworn the 6800 Go Ultra was still a 12 piped variant of the original 6800 Go using GDDR3, rather than GDDR1, and with higher clock speeds.
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What do you mean by that exactly?
 
Originally posted by: Ronin
hrmm..I could have sworn the 6800 Go Ultra was still a 12 piped variant of the original 6800 Go using GDDR3, rather than GDDR1, and with higher clock speeds.
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it is

and i remember reading some where about this possibly being an early varient of new technology ie G70

the 6800U go is a 12 pipe card, clocked at an amazing 450mhz in its top form. its got a 256bit mem bus and 1.1Ghz ram to boot

you can have one in the dell XPS 2 laptop, at full speed this card is faster than a 6800GT and it even out paces the 6800U in some areas. both the 6800GT and U are 16 pipe cards, and a small 25mhz clock advantage over the desktop ultra isnt enough to make up for a deficit of 4 pixel pipelines....so some serious efficency improvements have been made to the 6800U go core

which is why i beleive it could of been a test bed for future G70 platforms

ya know like a hybrid mix of mainly this generation with a few ideas from the new gen mixed in
 
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
Originally posted by: Ronin
hrmm..I could have sworn the 6800 Go Ultra was still a 12 piped variant of the original 6800 Go using GDDR3, rather than GDDR1, and with higher clock speeds.
Click to expand...


it is

and i remember reading some where about this possibly being an early varient of new technology ie G70

the 6800U go is a 12 pipe card, clocked at an amazing 450mhz in its top form. its got a 256bit mem bus and 1.1Ghz ram to boot

you can have one in the dell XPS 2 laptop, at full speed this card is faster than a 6800GT and it even out paces the 6800U in some areas. both the 6800GT and U are 16 pipe cards, and a small 25mhz clock advantage over the desktop ultra isnt enough to make up for a deficit of 4 pixel pipelines....so some serious efficency improvements have been made to the 6800U go core

which is why i beleive it could of been a test bed for future G70 platforms

ya know like a hybrid mix of mainly this generation with a few ideas from the new gen mixed in
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Right, but wouldn't the M processor in the Gen2 be kind of blah compared to getting an Alienware with a P4 with EMT64 and the 6800 Go Ultra? About the same price, too.

Laptops are complicated as hell... would it be practical to build one like you can with desktops?

 
Originally posted by: IanE
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
Originally posted by: Ronin
hrmm..I could have sworn the 6800 Go Ultra was still a 12 piped variant of the original 6800 Go using GDDR3, rather than GDDR1, and with higher clock speeds.
Click to expand...


it is

and i remember reading some where about this possibly being an early varient of new technology ie G70

the 6800U go is a 12 pipe card, clocked at an amazing 450mhz in its top form. its got a 256bit mem bus and 1.1Ghz ram to boot

you can have one in the dell XPS 2 laptop, at full speed this card is faster than a 6800GT and it even out paces the 6800U in some areas. both the 6800GT and U are 16 pipe cards, and a small 25mhz clock advantage over the desktop ultra isnt enough to make up for a deficit of 4 pixel pipelines....so some serious efficency improvements have been made to the 6800U go core

which is why i beleive it could of been a test bed for future G70 platforms

ya know like a hybrid mix of mainly this generation with a few ideas from the new gen mixed in
Click to expand...

Right, but wouldn't the M processor in the Gen2 be kind of blah compared to getting an Alienware with a P4 with EMT64 and the 6800 Go Ultra? About the same price, too.

Laptops are complicated as hell... would it be practical to build one like you can with desktops?
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A highly clocked P-M is incredibly fast. I remember reading somewhere a 2.5GHz P-M gets higher frame in games than the FX-55
 
This could be very true, but on the models with the M it only goes up to 2.13ghz, and I'm not one to overclock, nor do I think it would be very smart to do in a laptop haha.
 
Originally posted by: IanE
This could be very true, but on the models with the M it only goes up to 2.13ghz, and I'm not one to overclock, nor do I think it would be very smart to do in a laptop haha.
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I was just trying to say that a P-M @ 2.0GHz is not a slow gaming proc.
It is probably as fast as a A64 3200-3500+.
 
Ahhh, cool. I'm extremely happy with my A64 3000+, but would having a 32bit Pentium M make any difference, especially since there's not much of any software that's 64-bit yet.
 
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