Commenting on: ATI FirePro V8700 and V3700 reviewed and compared to Quadro FX 3800 and Quadro FX 370, respectively

Expreview benchmarked the FirePro V8700 and V3700 under Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and compared it against the current high-end NVidia Quadro cards. The results are impressive anywhere where the application takes advantage of the GPU including Microstation, Cinebench (60% better OpenGL performance!), Lightsmark, SPECviewperf 10, and SPECapc SW/Maya/ LW.

Summary: “We’re really impressed with the outstanding performance delivered by ATI FirePro V8700, which outperformed Quadro FX 3800 by a large margin. Even if Quadro FX 4800 steps up, we don’t think the situation would change much. But as we see, the catch is…