7900gs

i am thinking of buying a 1705 with 7900gs in it.
with dedicated memory of 256mb i've seen it do 4000s@3dbench06
which is quite impressive for a mobile chip.
but also i've heard that geforce is designed for 3d games
and quadro is designed for 3d modeling and things like that...
i'm wondering what would be a better buy for me
i am going to be going into industrial design next year
requiring alot of 3d modeling and designing...
would 7900gs do the job or should i start looking at the lower qual of quadros?
i've not quite figured out the difference between quadro and geforce
the only graphic that i'd really want is in dell's flagship F90....
so how does 512 MB NVIDIA® Quadro NVS 120M with TurboCache
out rank 7900gs...?

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D820 15.4 inch, T2500 dual core, wuxga lcd, 512mb quadro nvs 120m, 1 gb 667mhz, 80gb 7200rpm, dvd-rw, intel dual-band = $1,774

which is better buy for a college student going into industrial design?

E1705 17 inch, T2500 dual core, uxga truelife, 256mb geforce go 7900gs, 1 gb 667mhz, 100gb 5400rpm, dvd-rw, intel wireless = $1,522

 

The 7900 would outperform the quardro in gaming. However the quadro is a workhorse card meaning it can render things much quicker in 3d modeling programs. I am not familiar as to how the 7900gs performs in this though, im sure it's not bad.

 

If you cad/render you must go with a work station like the D & M's , the 7900 is for directx gaming so it will not be as nearly as good as the quadro .

Get the Notebook with the best card you can afford ( or think is right for you ) > RAM > CPU > HD > Accessories = skimp on everything else as those are upgradable ( to a level of reason ) .

 

With some better drivers the 7900GS should do a lot better than the Quadro. Is it possible to get Quadro like drivers for the 7900GS? Because it sure is a much more powerful card.

 

the 7900 gs is for pumping out frames per second, the quadro is for making highly accurate 3d renders, if your getting the computer for gaming, get the gs, if your getting it for school/work, get the quadro, if its for both, you've got to decide whats most important, if your going to be doing lots of cad, or 3d rendering work, I'd go with the quadro, the gs is a gaming card, it cant give you quality renders with the speed and accuracy as the quadro, and it also isnt officially supported by the major rendering apps, so if you have a problem with the software, you wont get any support

 

I'd place school/work activities above gaming, so I'd have to advise you to get the Quadro. The Precision M90 is a good machine, essentially an Inspiron for business with a workstation video card.

The workstation Quadro card is a standard GeForce card, but optimized for rendering and such. They can still play games, only sometimes you'll run into compatability issues with certain games.

 

The Precision M90 has the Quadro FX 2500M, which is similar to a Go 7900GTX. I've actually seen results where the 2500M gets better 3dmark05 scores than a 7800GTX, which is a top of the line graphics card. So I would say go for the M90, it's what I want to get eventually (as soon as they pop a Merom in it). I'm an engineering student and will need it for 3d modeling and CAD as well, so I understand your concern. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this as well. But if you do get the M90, as long as you don't have compatibility issues, you should outperform the E1705 with the 7900GS.

Oh, and the M90 has far better build quality than the Inspiron.

 

thanks for all the replies...
so i'll see what i can do...
i really do want m90... but i dunno
if i can afford it...
so is nvs not worth it?
supposingly geforce said fx is the only graphic card
that is made for 3ds max?

 

I would say that the NVS would not be worth it if you plan on gaming. It's the only thing that turned me away from the D820. The NVS 120M gets around 1500 in 3dmark05, while the M90 gets 8000+. There's really no comparison. However, the NVS will be perfectly fine for general uses.

 

does anyone know how well nvs perform in 3ds?
nvs 120m vs. geforce go 7900gs in 3ds max?
i know nvs is just geforce go 7400 with fancy quadro stuff on it...
and is there way to convert geforce to quadro...?
i heard they can do it in desktop...
also heard that it's border line of illegal and legal... i dunno...

 

the main difference between the gaiming cards and the quadro is the drivers, the hardware is pretty much the same, though the quadros usually have slower but more error free ram, I remember way back when you could physically mod a gf2 to a quadro, I'd guess its isnt as easy to do today, especially on a notebook card, and its more than borderline illegal, as you would be turning a mainstream consumer card into a corprate level workstation card that usually costs about 4 times as much