AMD FirePro W8000 And W9000 Review: GCN Goes Pro

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AMD’s GCN architecture, known for its strong compute and 3D performance, is finally being made available in the company's FirePro workstation graphics card family. Can AMD catch Nvidia? We test the two fastest FirePro cards to answer that question.

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Bottom Line

As we saw in the LightWave benchmark, the FirePro W-series cards are the clear performance winners. We can clearly see that these cards have raw performance on their side. However, AMD specifically talked to the challenge of optimizing for benchmarks versus real-world applications at a recent FirePro press event. Seemingly, it'd need to sink more resources into the former in order to improve performance in SPECviewperf.

Igor Wallossek
Igor Wallossek
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Igor Wallossek wrote a wide variety of hardware articles for Tom's Hardware, with a strong focus on technical analysis and in-depth reviews. His contributions have spanned a broad spectrum of PC components, including GPUs, CPUs, workstations, and PC builds. His insightful articles provide readers with detailed knowledge to make informed decisions in the ever-evolving tech landscape