An interesting question. The problem, without trying both directly on the
same machine, is that nVidia pushes the quadro for workstation applications
and you can see Viewperf benchmarks while the GeForce is for gamers, for
which you won't typically find Viewperf results posted. They do share some
of the underlying components. Of course, there is over a 4x difference in
street prices. System vendors will configure machines with the Quadro for
"professional workstations" while they will use the other for home PCs.
The best you probably can do for "standard" benchmarks is look for tests
using Quake or some other OpenGL-based game. I had crudely compared
previous generation cards on older machines (GeForce4 MX and Quadro2). The
quadro2 was a bit faster, but a lot more money.
Take a look at http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q2/020418/index.html
vs. http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.data/vp7/dx-perf.html
But I did find the following, which suggests there is a significant
difference, but not one that justifies the price difference...
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/profcards/profcards-09-2002-svp.html
Marilyn E Noz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 11/07/2002
10:30:15 AM
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Subject: [opendx-dev] QUADRO4 900 XGL graphics card versus GEFORCE4 Ti
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Does anyone know which of these NVIDIA graphics cards performs better
with DX - particularly for large volume arrays and heavy processing.
Thank you.
Marilyn
