Commenting on: Desktop Engineering tests FirePro V8700 - smaller, greener, less costly with top performance

Desktop Engineering ran its own benchmarks on the FirePro v8700 (ulta high-end card with 800 stream processor, 1GB GDDR5 frame buffer, stereo, 2 DisplayPorts), and compared it to the previous top-of-the-line FireGL v8600.  They basically confirmed ATI’s own SPECViewPerf benchmarks (refreshing to hear for performance numbers).  Like the previous generation FireGL, the FirePro V8700 is CAD certified, has a 3-year repair/replacement warranty, features AutoDetect (optimizes the driver performance based on the user’s specific software application when running multiple programs simultaneously) and HDR. But the FirePro is smaller (but not small enough), significantly less power hungry,  slightly faster than, the…