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.

Basemark CL: General Benchmarks

Simulation Benchmarks

The simulation benchmarks demonstrate that, once more, AMD’s drivers aren’t where they need to be in certain applications, this synthetic measurement being one of them.

AMD’s FirePro W-series cards do beat the company's older cards, but they can’t touch Nvidia’s Quadros. Even though they come close in the Julia Rendering benchmark, they don’t look good in the Mandelbulb Rendering test, and get massively beaten in the Fluid Operations and Wave Simulation metrics.

Fluid Operations

Wave Simulation

Julia Rendering

Mandelbulb Rendering

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