[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 76, Issue 4

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Mar 3, 2009, at 13:32 , nate at portents.com wrote:

>> I don't see a real CAD or 3D rendering card being listed.
>
> Anyone know if Apple actually has a different OpenGL driver for the  
> Quadro
> and FireGL stuff on Macs?  On the PC, this is all they are:
>
> NVIDIA Quadro - typically just a consumer GeForce chip, maybe add a 3D
> stereo glasses port on the back, change the resistors so the PCIe ID  
> is
> different, then bundle a different, optimized (for quality/precsion
> rendering, not speed i.e. less corner-cutting) OpenGL driver for use  
> in
> "CAD or 3D rendering", charge a lot more money.

Are you sure about this?

When I was helping a guy do some video editing, he used Quadro cards,  
and they were far faster than non-quadro cards with that task.  2D  
operations were very fast, but 3D not so much.

I thought you were paying for pure memory speed on Quadro?


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Shannon Hendrix
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