Specking out a new fixed or mobile workstation for your CAD work can be a challenge. First, you need to identify the type of work where you really spend most of your time. For example, do you model simple parts, complex assemblies, or both? Do you do first-pass or complex FEA or structural dynamics analyses?
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What’s happening in this video? It’s something to do with a fast motorcycle, an alien spaceship, and a shockwave that sends the fleshy jowls of a middle-age man into a flapping mess against his head bone. Oh, and this guy is spilling his coffee, looking quite like he just was bucked between the legs by a small horse.
Just look at that Quadro 2000 circuit board shimmer in the perfectly directed studio lighting. It’s almost enough to take your mind off the $50k you just spent upgrading all the company’s computers to the, now antiquated, Quadro FX 1800. So what, I say! What’s $50k when it comes to a full 1GB of memory, nearly twice the triangle pushin’ power and over 3 times the CUDA processor cores. NOTHING.
NVIDIA launched it’s new line-up today. It includes five new cards upgrading the entire Quadro line from Entry level to melt-your-face Ultra High End. You’ll see each getting a boost across various tech spec that will provide you with just enough reason to either, wait and get one or become unnervingly frustrated with a recent purchase of an ‘old’ one. Here’s the rundown with a focus on the ever-so famous for 3D, mid-range 2000 model.
If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing like spinning around till you stumble and slam your head through a 3D display. The small joys of life. Much like being able to model 3D on a display while wearing some dope looking lenses and chewing on a stick of butter. At least it use to be like that for SolidWorks users.
Some people got excited when SolidWorks added Stereoscopic 3D support using StereoGraphics CrystalEyes in 2005. Technology and user’s interests changed, and two years later… they canned it.
So what happened? What did SolidWorks do with the ability to viewing models with 3D glasses and a 3D monitor or projector? We got a hold of Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks to find out what happened and whats going on to bring back the flurry of 3D that’s all the rage with the kids these days.
Stay calm… it’s a simple hardware review for a simple piece of hardware. A graphics card as a matter of fact. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800. A mighty GPU fit for many a CAD system, that five years from now will lie dead in a muddy trench of the IT underbelly.
It’s likely you want to find out if the FX1800 is a worthy upgrade. It’s also likely that if you want to upgrade your GPU, you want a simple explanation that any upper management person can understand with as few grunts, wandering gazed and shoulder shrugs coming from them as possible.
We take care of both. The official two-tier, print-n-submit solidsmack way.
If you’re a fan of meatballs and Nvidia Graphics Cards or “GPU’s” you’re gonna throw noodles in the air and set the table for the new Quadro FX family that has just come into town.
Nvidia has release their 10th generation cards and the “Strongest Professional Graphics Lineup in History” is the byline every GPU manufacturer wishes they could claim. Does it stand up to the new Quadro line-up that has been a staple of graphics professionals and CAD users?
Let’s take a look and see which one would work best for SolidWorks and other 3D CAD tools.
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Are you ready to elevate your heart rate a couple notches about extremely powerful computer tech? How does the word ‘Supercomputer’ make ya feel?
While the nVidia Personal SuperComputer is bound to have your models streaking across the screen, don’t shove your old workstations down the stairs just yet… Ok, go ahead, but you’re gonna need some cash and a new jacket that says, ‘Back OFF, I’m supercomputin’.”
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