Precision M4600 - Dual Core - 4 DIMM RAM???

The Quadro series isn't gaming oriented, and their drivers aren't positioned towards gaming benchmarks. Load a modified GeForce driver and maybe you'll see the scores improve.

As it stands the Quadro line is optimized for stability and business app performance. According to what I've read the Quadro 4000m is roughly a GTX470, with Quadro drivers. One reason it's probably a bit weaker than the GTX570 is that the GTX570 is based on GF114, which is an evolutionary die improvement on Fermi. Therefore it will probably have noticeable performance gains over the GF104 based Quadro 4000/GTX470.

The power consumption also points to this not being a GTX-5 series die, since the GTX570 consumes only 75w. The Quadro 4000 consumes over 100w at load.

 

Nice analysis. Do you think that performance of the 4000M will see a big increase with latter drivers?

 

Did you ever give this a try?
I use my M18x primarily for CAD (ProEngineer) & the Quadro is better suited the the GTX's.

 

With later Quadro drivers, no. Not much, if any. It may improve stability or marginal OpenGL performance though.

The GeForce drivers are where the gaming performance gains are always improving. Though there's only so much you can optimize, and I'd expect the Quadro 4000m drivers to be pretty mature at this point... seeing as it's 10 months old, and the GF104 die that it's based on is older than that.

 

I'm trying to get dual AMD Firepro M8900's working in my R2. Just need to mod the drivers I think to allow the display drivers to install, but there is no crossfire option. Any simple way to add that to drivers? No option in CCC.

Good luck with the Quadro SLI. Is there a system out there with SLI Quadros? If so you may have an easier time than me.

 

Quadro's can sometimes outperform their GeForce counterparts due to higher core clock speeds/memory clock, but again as HAL stated, Quadro isn't intended for gaming. If you do CAD, business applications that is the point of Quadro.

 

@Dellienware creating a new thread for every single question isn't necessary. It is annoying. All of your semi-related threads have been merged into this one as an example.

And above all, do not cross post ... which I've seen you do in the past.