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Ok. Two colleagues at work each need to purchase a new laptop. Primary concern is running an application on both called MagmaSoft - very graphic intensive casting simulation program. One suggestion was to get the Latitude M6600; another was the Latitude M4600. They can load them both up pretty much the same with processors, RAM, etc., and the M4600 is so much LESS bulky!
However, the big difference between the 2 is the graphics card. They can get the Quadro 4000M on the M6600, but only the Quadro 2000M on the M4600. They were able to pull specs to compare the 2, but the question now becomes the difference of performance between the 2. Has anybody ever had the opportunity to compare these 2 based on performance? Is the 2000M only available on the M4600 because of the size of the display?
Any insight / info on this would be GREATLY appreciated!
DELL-Terry B
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Posted July 19th, 2012 12:00
CD1993
The stats of the two GPUs are fairly different. I am not familiar with MagmaSoft, but drawing software tend to have fairly demanding system requirements so the Quadro 4000M may be the better choice. Here is a link where you can compare the GPUs to each other.
The big difference between the cards is that the 4000m has a 256 bit memory interface while the 2000m only has a 128 bit interface, and the 4000m has 336 cores compared to the 182 cores on the 2000m. This will mean that the 4000m should be able to render your drawings faster than the 2000m.
I am sorry that I not more of help, without knowing the type of projects your colleagues will be working on, I really can't say if they will notice much of a difference. The more the complex work that they will be doing the more likely that the 4000m will be able to render it quicker.
I am looking forward to see if any other users on the boards have direct experience and will be able to enlighten us both.
TB
DELL-Nikhil R
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Posted July 19th, 2012 12:00
Hi CD1993
Welcome to Dell community forums.
I am Nikhil_ R from Dell Social Media and Communities team
As far as performance with the Quadro 4000 is much faster than Quadro 2000, this is because the Quadro 2000 is based on an under clocked GeForce GTS 450, with only 192 CUDA cores and only a 128-bit DDR5 memory bus.
The Quadro 4000 is based on the previous Fermi flagship design, the GF100 (also used on the GTX 480, GTX 470 and GTX 465, as well as its higher Quadro siblings 6000 and 5000), but with a significant number of texturing units disabled (the Quadro 4000 has only 256 CUDA cores versus 448 CUDA cores in the GTX 470 and 480 CUDA cores in the GTX 480) and only a 256-bit DDR5 memory bus (versus 320-bit in the GTX 470 and 384-bit in the GTX 480).
Yes, 2000M only available on the M4600 because of the size of the display, normally on a big laptop because of the size and space, advance graphic card can be install but system with small shape and size doesn’t has the capacity for that so the lower version of graphic card that is suitable for the system is installed in particular systems.
Moreover 2000M works extremely fine on M4600.
Anything else that you want please reply.
Thanks & Regards
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DELL-Terry B
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Posted July 19th, 2012 12:00
Hi Nikhil,
I am sorry about that, I didn't notice your post.
TB