Decided to upgrade my main workstation’s Nvidia Quadro FX370 card ($129) to the XFX GTS 250 ($129 – previously $300++). Had to move almost everything around in my existing MSI Neo-6 motherboard. System: Running Vista Ultimate 64bit, 8Gb, Intel Quad core Q8200@2.33Ghz. 550W PSU
Performance difference was significant. Summary and pictures below:
Povray [Previous] 23m 28s 100.83PPS/147456 pixels
Vista – Graphics was lowest base score. Before = 4.1, now its 5.9
3dMark06: 3D 1473 to 11,582 SM2 552 to 4522, SM3 478 to 5436, CPU still the same @ 3331
Currently downloading and will run SPEC/GWPG benchmark and will publish results here.
Viewperf 3dsmax-04 Report Result:
SPECViewperf 10.0 Report Weighted Geometric Mean = 6.59
Viewperf maya-02 Report Viewperf 10.0 Weighted Geometric Mean = 21.35
Composite Result: 74.88 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m
Nvidia 3D Game benchmark result 52.8fps average for Direct X Area i – Download software from here – Nvidia.