The age of mining tide! Can Quadro T600 save gamers with limited budgets? Evaluation + personal experience

first stated that because I don’t have a similar level of graphics card to test, the results of the compared graphics cards are all taken from relevant evaluations on the Internet (I will try to ensure that the rest of the hardware is as close as possible), even so, there will definitely be a driver test environment The difference, so these results are for reference only.

Let me start with the conclusion. Due to my mistake in judgment, NVIDIA cannot change the power wall limit of T600. After replacing this 30+10 yuan radiator, the heat dissipation effect is significantly improved but the performance The improvement is minimal. However, the T600's game performance has surprises. In the case that the theoretical test is basically inferior to the 1050ti, many actual game performances have surpassed.

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I mentioned last time that after finding that the cooling specifications of the Quadro T600 were not enough, I found a radiator with applicable specifications on Taobao that looks better. I want to replace it and see how it performs

radiator 4-wire PWM fan, the price is 30 + shipping cost 10 yuan.

Comparative installation of the radiator

After the radiator is in hand, it feels heavier in your hand than the original one. The Zotac logo on the fan indicates that this fan should be the original Zotac graphics card

, there is a pre-coated silicone grease on the back, and a plastic cover for , The aperture is 43mm*23mm.

Take a look at the top cover. The outside is a black metal cover, which also has a certain heat dissipation effect, which is better than the original one. The internal radiator is much smaller than it looks.

Compared with the original radiator, this specification can be considered as a significant improvement, the area has been increased from 5*5.5cm to 5.2*8.4cm, and the thickness is twice that of the original, presumably there will be heat dissipation. Great improvement

bearing is the cheapest bearing (original is _p2span_p)

), the other specifications are the same as the original. The 2008 on the label tells the vicissitudes of this radiator

Install it on the graphics card and try it out, it fits perfectly

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Before , I read the comments and said that it has compatibility issues with P620 and needs to be polished. T600 replaced the two high power capacitors with shorter ones, leaving just a 1mm gap in between.

The disadvantage is that there are two video memory chips that cannot be taken care of.However, this GDDR6 runs at 1250MHz, which is the lowest frequency GDDR6 memory I have ever seen, so there is no problem with heat dissipation.

on the machine after installing the casing, now this card has to occupy two card slots

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Let me talk about my mistakes first. Although NVIDIA provides a lock function for the core and video memory frequency in the nvidia-smi command (the frequency must be in its limited combination), although the core frequency can be locked to 2010MHz when the video memory is 5000MHz, I ignore it Power wall

T600 The power wall given by Nvidia is 41.55W and there is no way to change it. Even if I lock the core frequency to 2010MHz, it will still be because of the power wall when the load is running. The frequency is lowered to around 1650MHz

Let’s talk about how to set the frequency first. Enter "cmd" in the search box at the bottom left corner of Windows to open the command line, first use nvidia-smi -q- d SUPPORTED_CLOCKS Check the core and frequency combinations supported by BIOS. The highest video memory frequency supported by T600 is 5000, and there are 810, 410, and the highest core frequency supported by the video memory 5000 is 2010. Then we enter nvidia-smi -lgc 2010,You can lock the frequency to 2010MHz (restart to reset...). But when I check the frequency in AfterBurner, it is only fixed at 1845MHz, maybe it is the reason of power consumption?

Forget it, run a 3D Mark and take a look. The test platform is the same as the previous one, the room temperature is still 27 degrees, open the side cover of the case to test

• CPU: Intel i5-10400F
• Motherboard: MSI B560M Mortar WIFI _li1span li179 AK120MINI
• RAM: Kefu DDR4 vest strip 3200 8GB * 2
• hard drive: Samsung 970EVO 500GB
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• 750 Chassis fan: Qiao Sibo 9025 PWM (rear)

Time Spy is 2257 points, which is almost an error compared to the previous 2200 points

Core frequency,Sure enough, the maximum is still limited to about 1600MHz, and I ran against the 42W power wall all the way, and I couldn’t do it anymore. Let’s take a look at FireStrike and FireStrike Extreme, which are 6961 and 3151 respectively. FireStrike actually exceeds 1050ti (usually around 6600~6700).

and FireStrike Extreme is still between 1050 and 1050ti

A master of entertainment. The old version and the new version are 80,000 points and 168,000 points respectively. Compared with the 77,000 points and 164,000 points before overclocking without changing the heat dissipation, there is still a slight improvement, at least not in vain

Then is the highlight, the single-bake GPU test is also the main purpose of changing the heat dissipation. After baking the GPU for 25 minutes, the core frequency remains at 1275MHz and the temperature is 66 degrees, which is basically the temperature of a qualified game card. Compared with the 1230MHz@81 degrees of the original radiator, this performance can be greatly improved. A large-sized radiator is still useful. The main purpose of changing the radiator this time is achieved

and finally the noise test,The noise is placed in the middle of the bottom of the chassis. The noise of the original radiator in standby and single-bake GPU is 49~49.5DBA and 55 to 55.5DBA, respectively.

After replacing the new heat sink, the noise of standby and single-boiled GPUs are 50~50.5DBA and 54~54.5DBA, respectively. The noise of standby and single-bake GPU is reduced and the noise of standby is increased and the noise is fully loaded. This radiator seems to have a slight vibration between the fan and the heat sink, resulting in high standby noise. Generally speaking, the noise has not changed. It is relatively quiet and can’t be heard at all under the table. The theoretical performance of is definitely not enough. The actual game performance still needs to be tested. Here I have selected a few games with their own benchmark tests to facilitate the performance comparison with other GPUs, including "CS:GO" with low configuration requirements, which has medium requirements. "GTA5", the more demanding "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", and the more demanding "Tomb Raider: Shadow" and "Red Dead Redemption 2". All performance comparisons are at 1920*1080 resolution.

First is CS:GO, which is more fun than the game out of the box.

is tested with the benchmark of the creative workshop and tested at all the lowest and all the highest settings respectively.

T600 achieved 297 frames and an average of 212 frames at the lowest and highest image quality respectively. 1050ti has 314 frames and 221 frames at the lowest and highest image quality, respectively (Data source: Station B "Installed Killer Code 47",Tubing "Benchmarks"). In addition, someone mentioned last time why 5700G is not used, because the performance is really far behind. The lowest picture quality of 5700G is only 194 frames (data source: B station "Geek Bay")

1050ti wins T600.

Next is the GTA5 that I bought this year

. The picture quality setting of this game is rather messy. There are few symbolic comparisons here. . Using the built-in benchmark test, the frame rate of T600 can reach more than 180 frames under the lowest image quality, and the corresponding 5700G only has 8, 90 frames (data source: B station "Geek Bay"), which further illustrates that even the top core Display , and there is also a gap between the entry game independent display

In the medium and high image quality, the T600 can source more than 60 frames, and the data ti is more than 50 frames. : "Hammer hits the computer" at station B).

set all the image quality to the highest, T600 also has a performance of about 35 frames, it can be said that the host-level frame rate is higher

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112 The game is an equal Odyssey of all beings

using the benchmark test that comes with the game,The first is high image quality. T600 is 42 frames and 1050ti is 42 frames (data source: You Min Xingkong)

is changed to 59 frames and 1050ti is 59 frames 58 frames (data source: station B "installed killer code 47"). Comprehensive T600 small wins 1050ti.

Then Tomb Raider: Shadow

also uses the benchmark test that comes with the game, and the picture quality is set to the lowest. The T600 ran an average of 66 frames, and the corresponding 1050ti score was 60 frames (data source: "Zhongzheng Evaluation" at station B), and the T600 won again.

Finally is my personal favorite game, Red Dead Redemption 2

is still the benchmark that comes with the game. First of all, the lowest picture quality, T600 ran out an average of 44 frames. Since there is really no suitable comparison result, everyone can only take a look at

span1p By 32 frames, it's hard to play.

In summary, this level of card can only play some of the 3A masterpieces of recent years in low quality 1080p (may not even play).The performance of the T600 in the actual game is a bit surprising. When the running score is not as good as the 1050ti, the actual game can still play back and forth with the 1050ti

Summary

due to the lock Due to the power consumption, even if the T600 manually locks the frequency, the performance is not effectively improved. It makes me feel that it can be unlocked to 50W or even higher power consumption (the same radiator of T1000 does not give 50W), but Huang’s knife method, you know

In addition, the actual game performance, In the game I tested and the results found on the Internet, it was basically a tie with the 1050ti, and there was no abnormal freeze or texture error in the actual game. It is OK to play the game. Considering the price of a new card of 1300 yuan, compared with the 1200 to 1300 second-hand 1050ti on the market N years ago, it can be said that the price/performance ratio is overwhelming.

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