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My experience is the same with nvidia-based Quadro cards and
an 8800 GT at home for some reason. 

My laptop running an ATI mobile GPU is much fast than both
in the bench 3D performance. I cannot understand why and
would like a fix too! :)

"Sridhar Mahadevan" <mahadeva@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message
<fm5e6n$9qj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Gianni Schena" <schena@univ.trieste.it> wrote in message 
> <fltd35$8p6$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > 
> > why is matlab so slow in 3d visualization (isosurface, 
> > isonormals, volume rotation in 3d etc) ?
> > 
> > it is Slow even with one of the best graphic cards 
> > (512 Mb gddr3 etc etc  & lates drivers ) 
> > 
> > any idea ?
> > 
> > thank you to all in advance 
> 
> 
> Which graphics card are you using? I have the same 
> experience, and posted a note to this newsgroup a few days 
> ago. 
> 
> I am using an NVidia 8600GT card with 512MB of DDR3 VRAM, 
> and the card performs poorly on MATLAB's graphics benchmark 
> (which does a 3D rotation of the MATLAB symbol). 
> 
> The card turns in stellar performance on Vista graphics 
> benchmarks. I don't understand why it is slow in MATLAB 
> (and a much slower ATI 2400 HD card turns out to be faster 
> in MATLAB, but slower on Vista graphics benchmarks!). 
> 
> - Sridhar
>