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    Quadro fx2500M for gaming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by tangent, Jul 14, 2006.

  1. tangent

    tangent Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, i am thinking of getting a laptop with a 512 quadro fx2500 and i want to know how it compairs with the 512 7900 gtx. I know that 3d mark scores are roughly the same, but i heard that the quadro was much better in opengl then it is in directX programs. i was wondering if it would, hands down beat a 256 7800gtx, and what people had to say about how it would preform in oblivion, fear, ect. thnx.
     
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    danton47 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Some performance tests are published in this and other forums, but it's usually difficult to compare two cards without well-defined benchmarks. F.E.A.R. has built-in video test, so it's more or less straightforward: here

    As to OpenGL, it doesn't look like Quadro's OpenGL implementation is better for gaming. From what I could gather, it seems that, at default driver settings, games run actually a bit slower than on supposedly equivalent 7900GTX, albeit with better picture quality. DirectX games, on the other hand, should not be affected by Quadro's OGL optimizations.
     
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    ew2x4 Notebook Guru

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    If it's the same clock speeds, it will perform the same, if not better than the 7900gtx.
     
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    And it will perform much better than a 256 7800GTX.
     
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  5. tangent

    tangent Notebook Evangelist

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    awsome, thnx
     
    tangent, Jul 15, 2006
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