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    Quadro 5010m or Ge force 485m?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Chaos92, Apr 28, 2011.

  1. Chaos92

    Chaos92 Notebook Consultant

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    Quadro 5010m or Ge force 485m? Which is better?
    I know that 485m is gaming graphic card and quadro is professional card but what is the difference?

    Y is 5010m so insanely costly?

    The 485 will not accelerate CAD right?
    But can the 5010m play games too on top of being able to accelerate CAD?
     
    Chaos92, Apr 28, 2011
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  2. HTWingNut

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    Difference is primarily drivers. But if you're looking to use it for CAD work, it will run games fine too, just not optimized for them.
     
    HTWingNut, Apr 28, 2011
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  3. Kel ghu

    Kel ghu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Games work just fine. Not the other way around though, there's a performance hit.
     
    Kel ghu, Apr 28, 2011
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    What laptop does have 5010M?
     
    Kel ghu, Apr 28, 2011
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  5. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    Isn't the 5010M like $2k or something?
     
    Kevin, Apr 28, 2011
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    Elitebook 8760w and the Precision M6600 and yes they aren't cheap.
     
    Star Forge, Apr 28, 2011
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    The drivers and validation are the only difference.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 28, 2011
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    No hardware differences like some of the past generation QuadrovsGeforce chips?
     
    Harleyquin07, Apr 28, 2011
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    Expect some hardware modification that prevents cross-modding the Quadros to a GeForce still. Also, I forgot to mention that the Quadros also uses ECC Buffered GDDR 5 VRAM.
     
    Star Forge, Apr 28, 2011
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