M4700 Owners Thread

thanks for saving me a headache

 

Best cards for the M4700 are probably Quadro M2000M or Quadro M2200 (didn't see them on your list).

 

Pascal quadro might work, like similar to a 1050Ti. However then can only be found in HP desktop server/workstation and need to unsolder some capacitor.
M2000M and M2200M are indeed the fastest card you fit the M4700 with, it's similar to a 960M/965M.

 

Most likely you'd run into the same issue that we have on M6700/M6800 with Pascal cards since the M4700 shares BIOS with the M6700. (BSOD at boot on Windows.) I haven't heard about any EC vBIOS versions discovered for Pascal Quadro cards lower than P3000.

 

It's because no one tested them, they are so rare...
I don't even know if there is turing MXM 3.0a card :/

 

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Quadro-2000M-vs-AMD-FirePro-M4000/m7776vsm8394

I was leaning towards the m4000 because benchmarks showed it better. Can't find benchmarks for the m2200

Edit:

I guess the quadro m2000 is not the same as quadro m2000m?

The m2000m is about 120, the m2200m is about 240

The 4000m firepro is about 50 and doubles my k1000m quadro

Hrmm... choices.

I see the m2200m is 55 TDP, is it built for the m4700? Will I have heatsink issues?

I'm all for best bang for my buck and the firepro 4000m is that. But I dont mind shelling out less than $300 to set it and forget it. Heck I might not even mind getting both. Use one as a temporary upgrade until I fixate on getting the real one.

 

This benchmark is for Quadro 2000M, a Fermi card. M2000M is a much newer Maxwell card and would be like 6× faster.

 

"This benchmark is for Quadro 2000M, a Fermi card. M2000M is a much newer Maxwell card and would be like 6× faster."

The m2200m is pcie3 but my laptop is pcie2. Doesn't that mean I won't see all the juicy performance?

 

M4700 supports PCIe3.

 

https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/M4700-Specification-Query/td-p/3938036

https://www.dell.com/support/manual...uid=guid-493767ec-a736-4f36-9def-833e34c14e4b

Where are you seeing 3?

Edit:

I see it's mentioned the card is 3 in the first link, but in the second link on the specs page there is no mention of 3 and pcie