First mobile workstations do not offer Optimus, as the development cycles of these laptops are very long. The Quadro FX 1800M also supports the automatic switching between the integrated and dedicated graphics card using Optimus. This helps reducing CPU load and increasing battery runtimes. The QuadroFX 1800M also supports PureVideo HD with the new VideoProcessor (VP4) to decode HD videos on the graphics card. These processing cores can also be accessed with CUDA, OpenCL, and DirectCompute to use the calculation power for other tasks than rendering images (for example transcoding videos). These can be compared to about 300-400 5-dimensional shaders in graphics cards by AMD.
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The chip is manufactured in 40nm and offers 72 1-dimensional unified shaders. Still all modern and demanding games of 2009 should at least run in medium detail settings (see the GeForce GT 335M page for more gaming results). The gaming performance should be similar to the GeForce GT 335M, altough gamers should choose a GeForce graphics card because of the optimized driver support (that leads to a better performance and less problems in games). Compared to GeForce products, the Quadro FX cards offer a significantly better performance, especially for OpenGL based apps. A list of all certified applications can be found on the homepage.
FIREPRO 5800 VS QUADRO 1800M DRIVERS
The certified drivers guarantee flawless and fast working with professional applications like Premiere, Photoshop, After Effect, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, trueSpace, Blender, Catia, IronCAD, Cinema 4D, Lightwave 3D, Softimage, Mathematica.
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The FX1800M is shipped with professional drivers and a special BIOS that improves the performance and stability in applications like CAD and DCC. It is based on the same chip as the GeForce GT 335M but can be also equipped with fast GDDR5 graphics memory. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M is a upper mid-range professional graphics card for mobile workstations with about 15" displays.
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