NVIDIA Quadro M4000 Review

SolidWorks viewset (sw-03)

The sw-03 viewset was created from traces of Dassault Systemes’ SolidWorks 2013 SP1 application. Models used in the viewset range in size from 2.1 to 21 million vertices. The viewset includes numerous rendering modes supported by the application, including shaded mode, shaded with edges, ambient occlusion, shaders, and environment maps.

Viewset tests:

1. Vehicle in shaded mode — normal shader with environment cubemap
2. Vehicle in shaded mode — bump parallax mapping with environment cubemap
3. Vehicle in shaded mode — ambient occlusion enabled with normal shader with environment map
4. Vehicle in shaded-with-edges mode — normal shader with environment cubemap
5. Vehicle in wireframe mode
6. Rally car in shaded mode — ambient occlusion enabled with normal shader with environment map
7. Rally car in shaded mode — normal shader with environment cubemap
8. Rally car in shaded-with-edges mode — normal shader with environment cubemap
9. Tesla Tower in shaded mode — ambient occlusion enabled with normal shader with environment map
10. Tesla Tower in shaded mode — normal shader with environment cubemap
11. Tesla Tower in shaded-with-edges mode — normal shader with environment cubemap

SolidWorks' popularity with product designers and engineers make this a significant test, and the M4000 is comfortably 15 per cent ahead of the K4200, but 17 per cent behind the K5200. So this will be a significantly better card for creating product-focused engineering drawings than the K4200, but existing K5200 owners can remain happy that their more expensive purchase is still providing an even better workflow.

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