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Quadro 4000 Graphics Card Preformance

feisthammela

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Irecently received a computer upgrade to aHP Z600 Workstation with a E5520 Xeon Processor and 3.00GB of RAM running on XP 32 bit. This computer came with an ATI FirePro V3700. So since this is not a Pro/E certified graphics card andI prefer to use Nvidia graphics cards anyway, I asked to have it replaced. What I got was a Nvidia Quadro 4000, which is certified. The problem is that I am not happy with the preformanceof this card. It seems to bog way down if I try to move a symbol in a drawing that has a lot of lines, for instance. So I checked the drivers that were installed, and they were newer than what was certified, so I had the correct ones installed, and it did not seem to make a big difference. Does anyone else know what I can do to improve the preformance of this card. I just do not understand why the ATI card I had preforms better than this Nvidia card, when on paper the Nvidia should be way better.
 
I have the 4000 in a HP Z400 and it runs Pro/E great. Did you remove the drivers from the FirePro? I have had similar lag type problems with gaming cards when installing a new card and driver before uninstalling the old one.
 
So I just tried removing all the old video card drivers and only installing the new ones and still no luck. I also tried to change the 3D image settings all the way to performance instead of quality, and that didn't help either. Any other suggestions???
 
Well...I got in contact with HP and they could not help me either even though I could have purchased this computer with the Quadro 4000 card in the first place. I think I've decided that I cannot live with the poor performance of this card. I am going to send it back and get a Quadro FX1800 instead.
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Hi All,


Last week I received the Dell Workstation T7500 with 2x Quadro 2000 and it is terrible. Intralink is slow as never before. It takes like two secs just to switch CS window to WS window. And around 5 sec to switch the sheets on the ProE drawing.I've sent an IT ticked and I'm waiting for some help... but in general I'm not happy with this card as well.


Cheers
Boleslawny
Edited by: boleslawny
 
Maybe something else to try. In the Nvidia control panel change all the settings to application controlled. I played around with overriding the settings and noticed a considerable performance loss when it wasn't using the application controlled option for the settings. I'm out of ideas if that doesn't make a difference.
 
Also i have big problem with this graphics card
I have the same workstetion with 12 GB ram and the results are bad
I run Inventor11
Autocad and UG on my machine
some solutions?
Best regards
 
I have exactly the same Performance if not worse
with my Quadro 4000 PCI Express x 16 card.

My system is as follows :
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Tower case : ThermalTake Level 10GT (Full AT
 
I'm hoping that the performance issue you guys are seeing are related to drivers or configuration, as my new machine is on the way with the Quadro 4000.
 
dross said:
I'm hoping that the performance issue you guys are seeing are related to drivers or configuration, as my new machine is on the way with the Quadro 4000.

Today I installed the new Quadro drivers 276.14 for my Quadro 4000 and to my dissapointment there was not a
single bit of change in performance.
Shame sh@t. If its not a driver issue I am beginning
to think that the Windows Quadro 4000 version is not
even 1/4th in performance compared with the same card
MAC version.

I dont understand what's wrong with it since the
hardware specs I think are the same with the MAC
version.

I did every fine tuning combination in the nvidia
control panel , with not a single change in performance.

video editting is still very slow. It can not handle
more than 2 1080p video streams with Video effects
applied to it in real time.
the MAC version can handle in real time (according
to the youTube video tests I saw) more than 9 full HD
video streams each one packed with video effects
(color correction & blur effects among others)
 
This worries me as I just built a new computer for home use for NLE video that also has the 4000 in it.


Do you have a link to those videos?
 
of course I did .. you mean the
Hardware Mercury Engine ..
I DID everything non stop .. and I am still trying
different calibration settings of all kinds with
no effect whatsoever.

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I'm searching...


I don't know if this will help, but it's worth a try!


From Nvidia:
Turning Off V-Sync to Boost Performance
To get the best benchmark and application performance measurements, turn V
 
This was one of the very first things I tried with
no any positive effect on video editting applications.
It still cant handle more than 2 1080p streams
with effects applied to them .
 
Your scores are good. Just wondered if there might be some issue with your system, scores show that there is not.


The link that part of the image that you posted is full of porn spam.
 
Today I updated the video editting applications
and things got 40% better and that makes me believe
that is software related after all.
Although that now the card can handle 2 video clips
(720p) with 1-2 color correction effects applied, still
has long road to go until it reaches the advertising
video with the single Quadro 4000 on a Macintosh with
10 video streams (1080p) every one of them with
many effects applied !!!

Macintosh version propably has a lot more optimised
drivers and/or video software .. who knows.

I am just very dissapointed from such an expensive
purchase and all that for nothing.

thank "God" (I'm an atheist) I didnt get another one
for SLI set up that I had in mind.
 

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