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.

SPECviewperf 11: Siemens NX

No Anti-Aliasing

2x Anti-Aliasing

4x Anti-Aliasing

8x Anti-Aliasing

Bottom Line

Nvidia's Quadro cards manage to win this benchmark without anti-aliasing. But the more anti-aliasing you apply, the worse they perform. Once anti-aliasing is pushed all the way to 8x, AMD’s FirePro W-series cards clearly pull ahead. This is the only benchmark in our suite that demonstrates such a massive hit when AA is applied to Nvidia's boards.

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