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Quadro FX 4800 installed

These are from my macbook running at native resolution... just for comparison. I didn't have an external monitor to run the test on at the time.
 

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MrRage said:
This is what I got when I ran the test.
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Thank you....Sorry to be picky - but netkas' benchmark had some other boxes checked for anisotropy and benchmark - maybe this makes a difference to the numbers?Were those numbers under OSX 10.5.7?
 
netkas has clearly found better drivers - I can't find them though - where is #gt200????
 
I apologize for not noticing the checkboxes on the benchmark I ran for the 4800. I will be unable to rerun those benchmarks because I RMA the card after being disappointed by its performance. Oh well, the 285 should be out in a week or so.
 
Hi everybody! This is my first post here :)

I OWN A NVIDIA QUADRO FX 4800 - PC VERSION.

I sold my pc one month ago for buying a Mac Pro (3,1 refurbished, excellent price)

BUT MY QUADRO IS STILL HERE.

I'm asking if there is a way to install it on a Mac Pro. They're slightly different (1 dvi instead of 2). But they are the same card. I still didn't try.

Asking around the internet someone told me that I should flash the firmware with the one that the mac version has.

I guess that this operation isn't 100% safe.... and we're talking about a 1800$ card.

Someone here can help me? :))
 
Gnorkie said:
ha ha ha

I do 3D modeling with Cinema 4D. So I need the Quadro
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I wrote the LightWave 3D manual and did some design work on the new nodal shading system, I taught 3D modeling and animation at University in Maya, XSI, LW, MotionBuilder, etc. etc., and I make TV commercials in my spare time - all for a living.

I have the 7300GT with dual 24" monitors. ;)
 
Tesselator said:
I wrote the LightWave 3D manual and did some design work on the new nodal shading system, I taught 3D modeling and animation at University in Maya, XSI, LW, MotionBuilder, etc. etc., and I make TV commercials in my spare time - all for a living.

I have the 7300GT with dual 24" monitors. ;)
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Greetings to you.

But this isn't answer. ;)
 
Tesselator said:
I wrote the LightWave 3D manual and did some design work on the new nodal shading system, I taught 3D modeling and animation at University in Maya, XSI, LW, MotionBuilder, etc. etc., and I make TV commercials in my spare time - all for a living.

I have the 7300GT with dual 24" monitors. ;)
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Tesselator, u failed to mention using c4d ;)
probably that's why some need alternative cards.
 
Gnorkie said:
Greetings to you.

But this isn't answer. ;)
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Greetz bro.

I just meant that a Quadro isn't actually "needed" to do this kind of work. And in a Mac under OS X it may not even be advantageous at all to have a Quadro over a GeForce.

So far, in this thread I'm thinking it's not at all.
 
Tesselator said:
So far, in this thread I'm thinking it's not at all.
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I can't get the meaning of this phrase. (I'm italian)

Anyway, I work in Architectural Renderings (mostly exteriors). So I always have to work with 3D Trees (with foliage - at least 5 in a file), Flowers on balconies, 3D cars....... the file gets heavy, and it's hard to manage it with a normal card. And I NEED OpenGL 3.0 to activate "Enhanced OpenGL" under Cinema 4D to have a "good" preview of the lights and to move far far far far better the model.
 
Tesselator said:
Greetz bro.

I just meant that a Quadro isn't actually "needed" to do this kind of work. And in a Mac under OS X it may not even be advantageous at all to have a Quadro over a GeForce.

So far, in this thread I'm thinking it's not at all.
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Some companies won't provide support unless you use
one of their listed configurations. I don't know if that's
an issue in this case, though.
 
Gnorkie said:
ha ha ha

I do 3D modeling with Cinema 4D. So I need the Quadro
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I owned a Quadro 4800 and returned it because my GeForce 8800GT performed almost as well as my Quadro. Cinema 4D has been proven in benchmarks to run as well on Quadro series as on the gameing cards under Windows, I suspect under OSX the Quadro would be slower than the GeForce 880GT, or beat it by under 10% difference.

Not worth $1800 to downgrade. At least not for me.
 
MrRage said:
I owned a Quadro 4800 and returned it because my GeForce 8800GT performed almost as well as my Quadro. Cinema 4D has been proven in benchmarks to run as well on Quadro series as on the gameing cards under Windows, I suspect under OSX the Quadro would be slower than the GeForce 880GT, or beat it by under 10% difference.

Not worth $1800 to downgrade. At least not for me.
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The benchmark you're talking about it's Cinebench, based on Cinema 4D. That is reliable only for the CPU test. The OpenGL test of Cinebench isn't reliable at ALL.

Anyway, do you own that 4800 for Mac Pro?
 
Gnorkie said:
The benchmark you're talking about it's Cinebench, based on Cinema 4D. That is reliable only for the CPU test. The OpenGL test of Cinebench isn't reliable at ALL.

Anyway, do you own that 4800 for Mac Pro?
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Yeah it was the mac one -- you can see pictures of it on the first post ;)

I got it to work with 3D application such as Modo, Blender, Houdini and an in-house OpenGL gaming library I was working on. But I just didn't notice any performance increase worth mentioning -- at least for me on a dual quad 2.8ghz mac pro. Disappointed, I returned the card and went back to my 8800GT.

I'm not saying that its a total loss getting the 4800 but its one of those things where you get you get very little for your money, compared to any other upgrade you can do to your computer. And given OSX is all OpenGL bases most gaming cards can offer you almost the same quality for a fraction of the price.
 
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