Anyone upgrade to Quadro M4000? like/dislike?

[Inoram]

Has anyone upgraded to a Quadro M4000 (from any other video card and using the same machine)?

Like it?

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[TomD.inPDX]

Did you find a good deal on the upgrade?

I am running the Quadro 3000M in a Dell Precision laptop.

The only hesitation I have is that NVidia drivers don't work properly.

Only Dell released video drivers work properly in Creo.

NVidia drivers leave "tracks" or "stutters".

[Inoram]

Not really good deal. Just looking to upgrade. The M4000 is not mobile, it's the latest version of the Quadro (desktop) series. I seem to need more GPU memory, the M4000 is an 8 gig card. Although that should be plenty I was also looking at the 12 gig Titan X card.

[MartinHanak]

Matt,

please can you explain, why do you need 8 GB or 12 GB GPU memory ?

MH

[Inoram]

I have 3 now, whenever the system slows down is when the memory hits cap.

[MartinHanak]

Matt,

according to my experience, size of graphics memory is not so important. System is slow, when i run out of RAM -OR- when I work with large assembly and processor usage is on 100% (on single thread). Therefore I do not understand why do you need 8 GB or 12 GB GPU memory.

MH

[Inoram]

Ok? Different experiences then?

[JonathanHodgson]

What are you using to monitor your GPU RAM usage?

I'd also be interested to know what GPU usage you're seeing in different operations and situations in Creo.  I've got a K4200 and it hardly ever seems to break a sweat.

[Inoram]

Process Explorer. I just took the screenshot, not really showing anything with it, but what I am looking at.And even at that 1.7 gig used on a few models loaded seems like a lot.

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

I tried to find some information concerning GPU tab info in Process Explorer. Unfortunatelly I did not get any understandable explanation. Therefore I think that information reported via this tool is useless.

MH

[Inoram]

They are just usage meters basically, what more information are they supposed to give to make them not useless?

[JonathanHodgson]

Hmm... I've just pulled in a complete gearbox assembly, and I've got xtop using about 1.8 GB and the video card reporting about 950 MB via GPU-Z.  So 1.7 GB seems believable... it would be interesting to know what drives the usage higher, though - is it more faces/edges/vertices, or more colours, or shadows/reflections/anti-aliasing, or decals/textures, or mostly screen resolution?

[Inoram]

I agree.I assume turning up some of the quality settings will make it jump up a bit.

[Inoram]

Or maybe GTX1080...

[TomD.inPDX]

M6600 with the 1080 upgrade.

[Inoram]

Now testing...

[mbrehmer]

We just upgraded to the M4000 and it's great for speed. However coming from an AMD FirePro V7900, this card seems to have an issue with Anti-Aliasing screwing with drawing line quality.

[Inoram]

Cool, yeah the M4000 just dropped like a rock in price because the Pascal version just came out and the performance of the Pascal is so much greater. I am still trying to 1080 at the moment. The Win10 driver seems to need a little work over the Win7 driver, though. Hopefully Nvidia gets on that soon. But (for me) the increased memory made a big difference.