NVIDIA Quadro DDR

To generate the composite scores which SPEC used, a dual Pentium II 300MHz system with 512 MB of memory and an Accel ECLIPSE graphics card was used as a reference system. The composite test scores are computed ratios with respect to this system. The composite scores obtained from the tests were:

Even with the problems with test # 6, the Quadro DDR had the best overall composite scores slightly better than for the GLoria II Quadro SDR with the 3.65 driver.  When the problem with clipping is fixed, the Quadro DDR like the SDR should score in the mid 4’s on the overall composite, which would be about 30% better than those for the 3Dlabs GVX1.  The effect of the DDR memory did not appear to be significant factor for this test.

How do the Quadro based cards compare with the somewhat higher cost (more than  8K$) engineering workstations from HP, with the fx6+ graphics, and those that use the new Intergraph Wildcat 4110 graphics engine?  Using some of the more basic test scores combined with data from the SPEC site we get the following:

Notice that this comparison is not exactly one to one, in that the workstations had faster Coppermine CPU’s.  Even so, the Quadro's compare quite well with these more expensive systems.