K2000m vs GT 650m?

I configured a Dell M4700 with a K2000m graphics card just recently, and what I wanted to know is how does it compare with a consumer grade 650m graphics card?

 

Very similar to the DDR3 version.

 

Yup, expect a drop in gaming performance (~10-15% if I recall correctly), but much better performance in CAD.

 

I plan on using Adobe CS, mostly Photoshop & Premiere. That's as of now.

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You should see better performance with the quadro than the 650m.

 

noticeably better, not quite as much of a gap in Premier CS6 but latter updates quite a bit more since CUDA is on the way out

 

wait so no CUDA on the quadro cards?

 

no not on the quadro cards but in Adobe Creative suite and many other professional applications, as of CS6 only Premier has CUDA support and that is the end of the line for it in the Mercury Rendering Engine. all of Adobe CS is moved to OpenCL as of the summer update.

FYI Premier pro is about 45% faster on CL than CUDA

 

So would a Firepro be a better option for me, what are the benefits of each?

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The Nvidia cards have better graphics switching technology, if you want to have both power when wanted and battery life when needed. And both Nvidia and AMD options support OpenCL. Ironically, the fastest GPGPU encoding/decoding algorithm currently in use is Intel's QuickSync, which is noticeably faster than CUDA for the same applications.

 

a Quadro, Firepro or Radeon 7970m are much better in Open CL, to be honest a 7970m is 4x faster than the 680m in CL. as for the above post, no Adobe products use Quicksync nor do any pro applications I use, it is more for cheap consumer software and is actually not used at all in professional software as an intel IGP is incapable of dealing with 10 bit color and many other features.

 

Do you know/ have an example of what uses OpenCl?

 

Photoshops advanced filters and re-rendering/redrawing, same with illustrator use it fairly extensively and even more so with some third party plugins.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 + OpenCL GPU acceleration = MIND boggling result - AnandTech Forums

it is also used to a lesser extent in most of the other applications in masters suite. as for Premier Pro the new version is VERY heavily OpenCL as going with the CUDA side of the MRE will cut your performance 40% ( a tessla card cant even keep up )

out side of that you have most software from AVID, Autodesk and Corel going the same route.

 

In case you're interested in OpenCL performance, here are some Luxmark 2.0 results gathered with the help of NBR members: http://forum.notebookreview.com/att...6709-call-benchmarks-cad-opencl-luxmark_2.png. Unfortunately, I don't have results for the firepro M4000 and Quadro K2000m, but the M6000 vs K3000m results already paint a good portrait of OpenCl performance on the firepros vs the quadros.

That being said, Optimus is nice for battery life and nVidia tends to have better driver support overall as well so there are reasons to go with nVidia despite the lower OpenCL performance.