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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The FirePro W-series cards are much faster than AMD's older cards, but are themselves dominated by Nvidia’s boards. As we saw in the Catia benchmark, driver optimization is likely needed here.
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