Is this Graphics Card Good Enough for Civilization V?

[Nateball]

Is a NVIDIA Quadro K1000M fast enough to play Civ V at a medium or even high quality setting? Or should I get a higher grade graphics card? If so, what would be better?

[The Rock God]

It should probably be good for medium settings, possibly one or two on high. But it's not made for gaming, and is equivalent to a low-end gaming GPU.

[banzaigtv]

You'll need a GeForce GTX 650 or higher to play this game with satisfactory performance.

[Soylent_Merchant]

If you want some reccomendations for low priced/High performing cards, i would reccomend either Radeon 7790 or the nvidia equivilant ( Although performs a bit lower) the gtx 650 ti. . These cards will also let you play other games on higher settings. I had the 7790 and i played like a 100 something hours on ultra of Civ V with almost no lag(Only when first rendering the map ) i would highly reccomend the 7790

[banzaigtv]

A GTX 660 is fairly cheap ($200) and can handle any game you throw at it. It's as good as a Radeon HD 7870.

[catsss]

Yep, your'e good.

[rotNdude]

That mobile video chip is comparable to a GT720M

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-K1000M.76894.0.html

Since that's a mobile video solution, what other options do you have?

[[☥] - CJ -]

isnt a Quadro a workstation GPU? if so it probably wouldnt be the best choice for gaming. as far as im aware thats not what they are best used for.

[Nateball]

Yeah its mainly for professional tasks, but im playing Civ V with it now and it works pretty well. Sure it cant run high quality for every setting but its good enough to not have to drop a few hundred bucks on a new card. I think ill keep my Quadro for now, but thanks everyone

[The Grapist]

Originally posted by banzaigtv:

You'll need a GeForce GTX 650 or higher to play this game with satisfactory performance.

You deffinatly don't NEED that. I've seen people play this on medium with a 9600GT just fine.

[AKA]

'just fine' is relative. The game in general is fairly hardware intensive. Will it run with less than a gtx 650? of course. Will it meet your eye-candy requirements? Who knows. I'd go for a radeon 7xxx series over a quadro.

[HEX|S]

Quadros are made for CAD and do not utilize DirectX very well. I found some passmark tests and the results were ~18% of what a HD7870 returned (800 & 4,247 respectively). I wouldn't think that it could be able to play it on medium...low, maybe

[hardrada]

Civ V is more CPU intensive than GPU intensive so make sure you have at least an Intel i5 (AMD CPUs won't cut it in this)