NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512 MB

Test System Details Specifications and Revisions

• Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (3.0 GHz) Quad Core (1333 MHz FSB)
• 4 x Kingston DDR2-800 CAS 4-4-4-15 Modules (4 GB Total)
• 1 x eVGA nForce 680i SLI LT Motherboard
• 1 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Disk
• 1 x Plextor DVD+/-RW Serial ATA Optical Drive
• 1 x Corsair HX620W 620W Modular Power Supply
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
• ATI FireGL V3600 256 MB (Driver version 8.44)
• ATI FireGL V5600 512 MB (Driver version 8.44)
• ATI FireGL V7600 512 MB (Driver version 8.44)
• ATI FireGL V8650 2 GB (Driver version 8.44)
• NVIDIA QuadroFX 1700 512 MB (Driver version 169.61)
• NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512 MB (Driver version 169.39)
• NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 1.5 GB (Driver version 169.61)

Just as with our high-end workstation graphics card shootout – we’ve tested these cards with Windows XP. Both NVIDIA and ATI claim XP to still be the dominant workstation-class operating system, and performance is fine tuned for this operating system in order to reflect that.

Synthetic OpenGL Performance Higher Numbers Are Better

The QuadroFX 3700 is off to a good start, as it actually provides our best Cinebench R10 OpenGL tests to date, even better than the older (but substantially more powerful QuadroFX 5600 card). This test also highlights how the QuadroFX 3700 and GeForce 8800 GT differ in terms of OpenGL performance. The 8800 GT is based on the same architecture and runs at higher clock speeds, but gets demolished by the QuadroFX 3700 in this test.