Maya 2008

Professional ATI FireGL cards are far ahead their competitors in Maya 2008. It has already turned into a tradition: ATI (and now AMD) solutions used to and still do outperform Quadro FX in this test, despite the changing GPU generations. Moreover, the performance advantage has become so dramatic that Quadro FX 3700 yields even to ATI FireGL V5600 selling for half the price of the Quadro.

SolidWorks 2008

We see very curious result in SolidWorks 2008. The highest performance belongs to the gaming GeForce 9800 GTX that left everyone behind, including much more expensive professional solutions.

Cinebench R10

Besides the real applications, we also resorted to a special CINEBENCH R10 test. It shows the systems performance in Cinema 4D suite that is extremely popular among Mac users and fans.

According to this benchmark, professional graphics solutions from AMD win this round in all price ranges.