Very good update. However, i wonder if you could try to softmod HD2k series into firegls and test it against these results.

loved it how you included had the 9800gtx there, plus the 3dmark06 benchmarks. Best workstation card benchmarking i've ever seen

And as mentioned by Akram, trying the softmod would be very cool

Is this comparison fairly? I mean you've benchmarked mid-level Quadro with high range FireGL

ATI and maya, always the same.
Fastest card in benchmark and unusable in real world, bug and more bugs, low image cuality and selection lag, etc.
When I see one ATI powered computer runing maya without big problems I sold my quadro 4600 and buy FireGL.

I don't know why 3dsmax 9 is used, this test should be done at least with 3dsmax 2008 or even 2009, in 2008 version it got a good improve in the viewport performance.

Please don´t lie redo the autocad test, and put the same config in all cards, ATI cards disable thing because of stability issues, disable it too in nvidia cards.

Autocad performance driver: Autocad 2009 all OS.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/autocad_pd_perf_drivers.html

Looking into the future, I would highly recomend Nvidia as CUDA optimised applications will certainly soon appears... I find it strange that it is not mentioned into the conclusion

the benchmarks are fine,
but I would love to see a comaprison of workexperience. ATI often suffers driver issues while used with houdini and maya 8for example)

Furthermore it would be great to compare the real user exerience with a top gaming card.
Regarding realt ime shading, viewport freezing etc. This would show me if it is worth to spend 1000 USD for a 3700 quadro or 400USD for a gamer card.

Could you please clarify your testing method in the 3ds Max 9 SP2 benchmark? You say in your conclusion that the test was a 'real application' rather than a 'synthetic test'. Does this mean you were measuring frame-rate in a given scene, or doing something else?

Thanks,
Stuart

since u added the 9800gtx performance y didnt u use the hd3870 or the hd 4870 from the ATi side?????
altho its not fair but overall a good review....