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- Old Nvidia Quadro cards, now these things you've probably seen them before if you've come into used PCs. I've pulled out quite a few of these, and sometimes people just even give me them and they say I've got completely no use for these old potatoes. On that same note, however, when you guys have seen one of these in one of my used parts signs you've asked me to test them out. So, today we've got a heap of different Quadros here. I think this one is a 2000 and this one is a K600. We've also got an AMD ATI hybrid. So I'm guessing that's from the 5000 series era. So it's very old as well. And then we've got this here which is an FX 4600. So we're going to be running some tests on these cards to see if they can game in 2019, or just check if you should just chuck 'em in the rubbish. However, before we do that, and these things do have these cool little handles on them, today's video sponsor is Wix dot com slash go slash techyescity. We'll talk about them later in the video, but basically you can build yourself a free website. No strings attached. Link's in the description below, but let's get back to the testing. So the first card we're going to be putting on the test bench is actually the newest of the bunch and the cheapest. Coming in at a 199 USD when it was released of March 2013. Uses the Kepler architecture and also has 192 CUDA cores clocked at 876 megahertz. However, it does only have one gigabyte of DDR3 video RAM. I believe I read that right, one gigabyte. So, I don't think this thing is going to be up to the task of performing, but let's whack it on the test bench and see if it can play some easy to play titles. So the results actually kinda surprised me for this card. It comes in with a Fire Strike score that's worse than that of Intel's HD graphics, but it still managed to play Dota 2 at 1080p low settings with a hundred percent screen resolution. But as we can see with the 1% and .1% lows, this DDR3 memory and its memory bandwidth is clearly bottle-necking this card. I believe if it had a better subsystem it could give out better FPS. And when we played CS:GO that was a complete disaster, getting just over 30 FPS, so it was really stuttery at 1080p low settings. I mean, sure you could lower the settings even more, but we've got some other potato cards here that we want to check out and see if they can game any better than this. But of course what about Apex Legends? It did manage to boot, but, yeah, we got like a 19 FPS on 720p lower settings. So this one's kind of a no-go. Next up here we've got the Quadro FX4600. Now this is the biggest card I have here. And it's also the most expensive when it was released at retail, coming in at 1999 US dollars. It was released in March of 2007. It supports up to DX 10. And it has 768 megabytes of GDDR3, so it actually does in my opinion, I believe, have better memory than the K600 which was released in 2013. In terms of its architecture, they were using the Tesla architecture with 96 shading units. I don't know, however, if they called them CUDA cores back at this time. But regardless, let's whack this thing on the test bench and see how it goes. So the results was actually really interesting with this card compared to the K600, and mainly in a couple of ways. First off, Fire Strike didn't boot at all. It just didn't flat out work. And that's because it doesn't again have DX 11 support. But Dota 2 gave us some really interesting results. This one here got 61 average FPS and a 1% low of 41 and a .1% low of 17. So it did in fact did a lot better than the K600 due to the fact that it was using GDDR3 memory as opposed to the K600 which was using DDR3. Even though it had roughly 250 megabytes less VRAM, it still performed better because it had faster VRAM. However, I will note that one of the cards that I put on the test bench initially didn't work at all, so it was a DOA card. But this here, the second one I put in, actually worked okay. Next up here we have the in-betweener. This is the Quadro 2000. This was released in December 2010 with an MSRP of $599. Now it features a 192 CUDA cores on the Fermi architecture. This is that one that we all know that got hot and hungry for that power. Yet this card itself doesn't require a six pin and uses all it's power from the PCI-E bus, and has a clock speed of 625 megahertz on those CUDA cores. With one gigabyte of GDDR5 VRAM. So in terms of the memory being used, this one does have the best of three Quadros here. But with that said, let's see if those Fermi CUDA cores can outpace those Kepler ones. So we just finished up testing out the Quadro 2000, and I got to say I'm pleasantly surprised with this card. Moving through the Dota 2 numbers we were getting over a hundred average FPS and the 1% and .1% lows weren't bad at all. Moving on to CS:GO as well, the numbers were very playable, and not just in the dedicated benchmark, but also playing some multi-player games. It was pretty smooth. So for 1080p on CS:GO and also Dota 2, this definitely hit the mark. And then we ran a Fire Strike benchmark and we're getting over a thousand points. Very similar, off the top of my memory, to that of the Intel HD graphics. But of course there is one more test to run, and that's Apex Legends. Yeah, we're still quite not there yet. But what about Fortnight? Yeah, we're still quite not there yet. So last up in the stack we've got the ATI AMD card that I don't even know what it is exactly because there's no identifier on it. But we'll quickly put it on the test bench find out what it is and then run some benchmarks. So it's saying is an HD 5700 series but there were two models, 5750 and also 5770. So opening up GPU-Z showed that this was indeed a 5770 due to the amount of shader units of 800 versus 720 on the 5750. So firstly with this card right here, it didn't do well at all. Fire Strike refused to boot. CS:GO refused to boot, even when I put in a subcommand of DX nine and tried to force it to DX nine. And then Dota 2 did end up booting but we got like 18.9 average FPS and surprisingly though, the 1% and .1% lows were similar to that of the K600, so I'm guessing that, yeah, the K600, that's a pretty bad card for gaming. This thing is pretty bad, but at least this things got an excuse and that is it's older than the K600. However, I do really like the inputs and outputs when this card was released for its time. I think it was 2009 and you're getting a display port, HDMI, and also two DVI ports. One thing, however, the cooler on this is really loud. This was back in the day when jet engines on your graphics cards were actually pretty cool. But in terms of the actual drivers. (card clicking) At least the actual cooler's still plugged on. Look. Hey. At least the cooler's still plugged on. Anyway, with relation to the cards that we tested here today, the Quadro 2000 surprised me. The other cards I wouldn't bother with them. They're going to give you a suboptimal gaming experience even with the lower settings possible in 2019. This 2000 series card here, however, especially on games like Dota 2 and CS:GO, it gave out a very solid experience. I mean if alls you wanted to do was get into these competitive multi-player titles, you've got a few friends that are playing them, and you just want some some decent FPS and you don't care a whole lot about the graphics settings, than if someone's giving one of these away, which I will be, I've got four of these here, so if anyone's on the Gold Coast and they want one of these I'll gladly just give them away. It's not a problem at all. Then this card here will give you decent FPS in those titles that we tested here today. I mean Apex Legends is out of the question, but I think if they dropped the graphics settings with a 50% screen resolution scale, this would be able to play 60 FPS at 720p 50% screen resolution. So if it's any feedback for Apex Legends, they can get these old cards like these working in their title, they just have to sort of let people tweak the settings even more. So now in a nutshell after analyzing today's results and whether or not these cards are any good in gaming machines, I think one of the quickest and easiest ways to identify if one of these cards, and especially if you get it for free, is worth keeping is to just simply check if it has GDDR5 VRAM on-board. Because I guess Nvidia would have gone to the lengths of putting this decent VRAM on-board if it only had the power to perform well in games. The rest of these other cards, they may be worth keeping if you just want to build a cheap home theater PC too, just to watch movies or do something else. But anyway guys, before I get on out of here, and talking about free graphics cards, I want to talk about today's video sponsor, Wix dot com. Which is a free to build website service. And basically what you do is just use the link in the description below. Wix dot com slash go slash techyescity, and you can build yourself a website so quickly so easily and it will look really good. 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