NVIDIA Quadro DDR

by Gary Jones on January 25, 2000 11:44 AM EST

Indy3D Version 3

The Indy3D graphics evaluation tool was constructed by Sense8 to aid end-users in evaluating OpenGL 3D performance issues using application-focused metrics (MCAD, animation and simulation markets), image quality stress tests and 3D primitive metrics. The four application sub tests were used in the review measure the cards performance.  The tests were performed with the standard Indy3D default settings.  The screen resolution was 1280 x1024 truecolor with Vsync off.

First, a word about the driver profiles used for these tests.  For the ELSA and 3Dlabs drivers, the four tests (MCAD40, MCAD150, Animation, Simulation) were run with the Pro/E profile. In addition, the Animation and Simulation tests were run again using the Lightscape profile.  The best scores were logged. The NVIDIA 3.65 driver did not have any such tuning options.

The scores are in fps with the best scores shown in bold.

Indy3D – Ver 3

MCAD40
(fps)

MCAD150
(fps)

MCAD150 WF/Poly
(fps/fps)

Animation
(fps)

Simulation
(fps)

Ref. Quadro DDR  –   NVIDIA 3.65

43.97 14.79 5.78/19.29 38.23 82.3

ELSA GLoria II SDR Quadro – ELSA Driver

36.32

13.74

5.30/17.96

41.68

48.12

ELSA GLoria II SDR Quadro – NVIDIA 3.65

36.93

13.88

5.77/17.93

38.17

50.84

CL Annihilator SDR  GeForce –NVIDIA 3.65

30.33

11.31

1.56/16.19

38.17

49.92

3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1, AGP

19.06

5.71

3.52/6.80

20.79

29.33

3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1 – PCI

17.17

5.02

2.46/6.30

19.29

25.98

3Dlabs Oxygen VX1

11.54

3.68

1.40/4.82

14.22

22.56

Diamond Viper 770 Ultra TNT2 – NVIDIA 3.65

11.57

3.65

1.94/4.51

11.94

35.89

When looking at these scores remember that this test suite consists of simulated app code, and the models aren’t very large or complex.  It was designed to be an easy to run, get the numbers quick, test tool.  Shown in the results table is a breakout of the wireframe (WF) and polygon (Poly) performance in the MCAD150 sub test. 

The Quadro DDR clearly beat all the others for this suite of tests.  The Quadro's have a huge advantage over the GeForce in wireframe drawing speed.  In the other areas, the Quadro DDR was much faster than the Quadro SDR on the Simulation test. 


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