nVIDIA Quadro Supported?

Do these graphics cards work with SL?



NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M (256MB Open GL)

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128MB)

nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, PC Card/ PCIe


Please advise.

Thanks.

Gary Coronet

Graphics Card for XP/2000**:

* NVIDIA GeForce 2, GeForce 4 MX or better
* OR ATI Radeon 8500, 9250 or better
* OR Intel 945 chipset

NVIDIA Graphics cards
6000 Series:

* 6600, 6700, 6800

7000 Series:

* 7600, 7800, 7900

8000 Series:

* 8500, 8600, 8800

GeForce Go Series:

* 7600, 7800, 7900

ATI Graphics Cards

* X800, X900, X1600, X1700, X1800, X1900
* x2600, x2900
* x3650, x3850

Graphics Card for Vista (requires latest drivers)**:

* NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better
* OR ATI Radeon 9500 or better
* OR Intel 945 chipset

NVIDIA Graphics cards
7000 Series:

* 7600, 7800, 7900

8000 Series:

* 8500, 8600, 8800

GeForce Go Series:

* 7600, 7800, 7900

ATI Graphics Cards

* X1600, X1700, X1800, X1900
* x2600, x2900
* x3650, x3850

Yes, they will work.

The following cards have not been tested with Second Life, and compatibility is not certain:

* NVIDIA cards that report as Quadro

until last month they were on the "dont even bother" list

they are not supported, nor recommended, if it happens to work great, but join the intel crowd it may work this month, next month you may have a brick

choice is yours

Quadro's are essentially consumer GPU's with custom BIOS's and drivers tailored toward commercial OpenGL application acceleration (such as CAD work).

If the consumer version of the GPU works with SL, then the Quadro will work (assuming no artificial blocks within SL).

other than the fact that Quadro's are designed to work with applications where it doesnt matter if it takes all day to draw a scene as long as its 100 % accurate and percice

not realtime applications like SL, histoically these type of cards perform horendiously in realtime applications

then add onto it your looking at budget models

Quadro's are actually workstation class graphics cards. Yes, they are designed to be very accurate, but they are also designed to be very fast. Time is money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro

They are designed to render OpenGL workloads very fast. Of course, there are low end Quadro's, and there are very high end Quadro's.

Ultimately they are not designed for gaming, they are designed for CAD acceleration, and things like that. They are still capable of gaming, however.

a nv for 100$ is not a upper end card

the last Quadro i bought was a real one, 6 years old it still ran a grand

and runs games like a Playstaton 1 trying to do xbox graphics

Like I said, they're based on consumer level cards. Same GPU's for the most part. So a $100 Quadro will be similar to maybe an 8200.

High end Quadro's (and FireGL's) are expensive, but $1,000 for that is a ripoff if it's six years old. It would have been based off of a GeForce 3 or GeForce 4 (if it's within the past year or two).

no its a real one

they do not make super high end video cards for real work based on 2 year old video game cards (and it totally rocks 3ds max)

lol hey nasa, need to render an animation based off of particle physics, here use this xbox reject card with a special bios

or hey ILM make the next toy story with this geforce 4 mx card with a special bios

sorry chief, doesnt happen like that

a 100$ nv is about equal to a 6200 in non realtime applications, its about equal to a riva128 in realtime performance wise

thats why 599 laptops come with them, its barley 1 step above intel chips and much cheaper than a decent go model

That's...actually how it works (and the XBox used a semi-custom GPU from nVidia. You wouldn't find it in any video cards they sold otherwise).

If the consumer cards and the Quadro's were completely different, then soft modding wouldn't be possible. http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=539&pgno=0

whatever im so sick of arguing with you (the xbox uses a geforce 3 with a bios mod)

glad you can softmod a nv, still not a real one mine contains what looks to be 4 geforce 4 TI's on 1 board and is almost a foot long with a gb of ram but your god whatver

back to the op i would not suggest it nor does LL

Thanks for the advice everyone.

It is much appreciated.