Pro/e performance increase?

[thrawn7977]

Hi the computer I currently use wildfire 3.0 on at worrk
has a hd 3450 graphics card. I know this is not a very good
card so I was wondering if getting a better card like the
gtx 460 would improve pro/e speed a lot. How much of pro/e
speed is Dependant on the graphics card? thanks

 

[dr_gallup]

You need an nVidia Quadro series. FX580 at least (did somebody post that the FX380 is OK?).

 

[thrawn7977]

I know the fx series would be better but right now they are
using the hd3400 which can't hold a candle to the gtx460 so
I was wondering if there would be an improvement between
those to cards. unless you are saying there is no
improvement unless I go with the fx series?

 

[looslib]

There will be some improvement, BUT Pro/E is designed for a card that does the Open-GL display processing. The GTX series cards (and HD) do native Direct-X processing so the Open-GL stuff is being done back on your main processor, thus slowing down Pro/E.


The Quadro FX cards do the Open-GL processing on the graphics card which frees the main CPU to do Wildfire stuff.

 

[thrawn7977]

ok thanks. I just found out we only have a 280w psu in our
computers can you please recommend a low cost fx card that
would improve performance over what we are currently using?
I don't think they would be willing to go over the $200
range unless we had bench marks or some guaranteed
performance. if say a new card will decrease our waiting
time by %10 then they would probably go to around $500-$600

 

[dr_gallup]

There are posted benchmarks but I don't know if you can find anything for your existing hardware as no one would consider it adequate for the job.

 

[thrawn7977]

lol that makes me feel good I went to the proe benchmark
site and our system here is in the top 30 the last time I
checked but I wanted to see just graphics card difference's because there are other changes in the systems that are
quicker then ours

 

[orac]

If you make a change in the Windows settings.


In Vista


"Computer" -> "Properties" -> "Advanced system settings" -> "Advanced" -> "Settings"
and change the option "Let Windows choose what's best for my computer" to "Adjust for best performance", you'll see a performance increase. Ok all the fancy Windows stuff is now gone (temporarily, it is back when you switch the setting to the original position again), but the system works much faster.


Best regards,


John Bijnens
www.khlim.be
Edited by: orac

 

[thrawn7977]

well just thought I would post an update. We bought an
older quadro fx3500 and put in the system. I could not believe the difference. on 2 identical computers 1 with a
hd3450 the other with the fx3500 same drawing, drawing has
1 group of 110,000 line entities (give or take 1,000) the
hd3400 takes just a little over 2 minutes to highlight the
group once it is selected. the fx3500 takes about 5 seconds
to do the same thing. Not bad for a $70 upgrade
thanks for all the help Guys and gals, I hope this info
helps someone else too