Commenting on: Benchmarking the FirePro V7900, V5900 and V4900 - V4900 shined on SPECapc Lightwave

Posted by Tony DeYoung on December 13, 2011

Jon Peddie Research benchmarked the new AMD FirePro V7900, V5900 and V4900 using SPEC’s Viewperf 11 to isolate the stress on the graphics boards, and SPECapc (Lightwave and 3ds Max), Cadalyst and Cinebench to get a handle on how well the boards support whole-system performance. Interestingly the inexpensive ($189) V4900 shines in many of the tests. 

“In the FirePro V7900 and V5900 boards, we see the first workstation-caliber usage for Cayman, and the results are what we expected. Both offer compelling price/performance, and the V7900 manages a reasonable-but-not-overwhelming advantage over the V5900”

“As the first and only FirePro…

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