MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Workstation graphics card question

> I have been playing San Francisco Rush 2049 on MAME with my NVIDIA Quadro K620
> graphics card since almost 1 year without any problems, is that ok I can use my
> NVIDIA Quadro K620 graphics card?

Yeah, I use NVIDIA Quadro GPUs for MAME on one of my machines, with the ODE drivers – it works fine, but the performance characteristics are a bit different to GeForce, depending on the drivers you use. The K620 is Maxwell generation. It supports DirectX 12 and Vulkan. It has fewer shading units than the equivalent GeForce, but will perform better on compute workloads that use double-precision maths. It can be considered a “ghetto compute card” that also performs well for workloads that need fast OpenGL texture upload (Photoshop and Lightroom in particular).

I use the NVIDIA ODE drivers with my Quadros. I find that Direct3D 9 performance is lacklustre, and full-screen exclusive mode does not perform well. I get far better performance using borderless full-screen window mode, and either OpenGL, DirectX 11, or DirectX 12/Vulkan.

While not designed specifically for gaming, it’s still perfectly OK for MAME. Just be aware that it doesn’t have the same performance characteristics as a GeForce.