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For CAD software that uses OpenGL, Geforce or Quadro?

MxPhenom 216

MxPhenom 216

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I am helping a friend of mine upgrade his computer for his lighting design business for events in ampitheatre's using Capture Argo CAD software. Last upgrade was a whole new system with a Xeon Haswell proc, 16gb of ram, and a GTX970. Capture was recently updated and sounds like performance isnt very good anymore, they changed a lot in the rendering and graphics part of it from what it sounds like. My question now is, stay with the geforce line or have him switch to a Quadro card that is more designed for this stuff like the M4000? The developers of the software emphasize GPU importance, so I think that is the only thing we are looking to upgrade right now.


What he does is a lot more involved that what is shown in the video. I just posted the video to show what the software is for the most part.
 
anyone have an idea?
 
quadro or firepro. get whatever is better deal
 
No ideas; however, this from the FAQ at their site:

What kind of computer is needed to run Capture
Apart from our current minimum operating system requirements, Capture should run fine on any standard desktop or laptop computer with functional OpenGL drivers.

However, bear in mind that visualization software is very demanding on the video card. As a good referenced point for the capabilities of your hardware you may find PassMask Software's video card benchmark pages for high end GPU's useful. A PassMark G3D mark of 2000 or more could be considered a general minimum performance requirement for Capture, but in practice the actual requirements will vary a lot depending on how you use Capture.
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They, also, have this FAQ: Visualization performance tuning
 
Quadro cards are ultra fast on whatever comes realted to design, compared to GeForce proccessors, if the price is not a problem you can seek both nividia Quadro or even Nividia Tesla for workstations, but they are high priced....

Regards,
 
95Viper said:
No ideas; however, this from the FAQ at their site:



They, also, have this FAQ: Visualization performance tuning
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Yeah ive seen those. and Geforce cards are doing a lot better in those passmark benchmarks than Quadro. Which is why i made the post in the first place. I dont think those benchmarks are or 100% about performance in CAD software, etc. Seems more like for gaming.
 
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