Commenting on: AMD FirePro W7000 vs Nvidia Quadro K5000 Rendering Performance in SolidWorks 2013

This video compares rendering performance in SolidWorks 2013 using the AMD FirePro W7000 ($899 MSRP) vs the Nvidia Quadro K5000 ($2249 MSRP).

These are videos of identical scripted manipulations with real-world models under real-world rendering and lighting conditions using SPECapc for SolidWorks 2013 (designed to represent a day in the life of a typical SolidWorks user, i.e. not an artificial benchmark).

Cut to the chase: the FirePro W7000 is finished rendering the content at 9:06, while the same content on the Quadro K5000 isn’t complete until 13:48 – in other words, the FirePro W7000 is about 30%…