Which one is better Quadro FX 4600 vs Quadro 2000

[Yayati]

I am willing to get a new workstation and this time I want to have the best video card and as an option I have found Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro 2000 as my options but then I am realyy confused between these two. I am not able to decide which video card I should choose I don’t know which one is the best among these. Is there anyone who has an idea about both and can help me out to choose the best as well? Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

[Hayley]

I will suggest you to get the Quadro 2000 it has the following features:

• Shader Model 5.0
• OpenGL 4.0
• Microsoft DirectX 11

I have found that the Quadro FX 4600 is outdated and I have even heard from people that it does not work well with the Win 7.

[Haben]

Even I will recommend you the Quadro FX 4600 and I will like to share some more features of it as well.It has a Fast 64-Bit Floating Point Precision and a Large Framebuffers with Ultra-Fast Bandwidth as well.It has Error Correction Codes Memory and Dual Copy Engines it also comes with a Hardware 3D Window Clipping and Unified Driver Architecture. As far as the image quality is concerned it has a Full-Scene Antialiasing and GPU Tessellation with Shader Model 5.0 and it comes with 16K Texture and Render Processing and High Dynamic Range Technology as well. It has some better display such as 30-Bit Color Fidelity and OpenGL Quad Buffered Stereo Support as well.

[Bageshri27]

I personally feel that the Quadro 2000 is really great as I have been using it from a long time. It is based on the Fermi architecture and it is powered by the Quadro Scalable Geometry Engine as well and it is also found to be the leading CAD and DCC applications for e.g. SolidWorks and 3ds max. It helps to perform real-time simulation and analysis and the advanced visualization as well. It also has a 30-bit color engine which is capable of producing vivid image quality and it range over one billion colors. It also helps in reducing visual aliasing artifacts as well.

[Amy_i3]

The full specification of the “NVIDIA Quadro 2000” is as followed:
GPU Specs:
NVIDIA Quadro GPU- Quadro 2000
CUDA Cores- 192
Form Factor- 4.376” H x 7” L Single Slot
GPU Memory Specs:
Total Frame Buffer- 1 GB GDDR5
Memory Interface- 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)- 41.6 GB/s
Display Support:
Dual Link DVI-I- 1
DisplayPort-2
# of Digital Outputs- 3 ( 2 out of 3 active at a time )
# of Analog Outputs-1
Maximum Display Resolution Digital @ 60Hz- 2560x1600
3D Vision/3D Vision Pro-v
Feature Support:
Shader Model-5.0
OpenGL-4.0
Microsoft DirectX-11
NVIDIA CUDA Architecture-v
NVIEW Display Management Software- V

[Omanand]

I think that the Quadro FX 4600 is a good choice as it is capable of delivering a optimized GPU performance and it has a 768MB GDDR3 memory and 384-bit memory interface as well and the new PCI Express architecture has made a lot of improvement in the geometry and fill rates.It provides a intelligent communication between the SLI-certified PCI Express graphics cards.It is the leading card if the industry having 12 bits of sub pixel precision which is capable of delivering geometric accuracy and eliminating the sparkles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies as well.

[HafizaAhmed]

Take a look at the full specification of the Quadro FX 4600 in the following link: