ATI FireGL V8600 1GB Workstation Graphics
Testbed and Cinebench
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- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (3.0 GHz) Quad Core (1333 MHz FSB)
- 4 x Kingston DDR2-800 CAS 4-4-4-15 Modules (4 GB Total)
- 1 x eVGA nForce 680i SLI LT Motherboard
- 1 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Disk
- 1 x Plextor DVD+/-RW Serial ATA Optical Drive
- 1 x Corsair HX620W 620W Modular Power Supply
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)
- ATI FireGL V3600 256 MB (Driver version 8.44)
- ATI FireGL V5600 512 MB (Driver version 8.44)
- ATI FireGL V7600 512 MB (Driver version 8.44)
- ATI FireGL V8600 1 GB (Driver version 8.44)
- ATI FireGL V8650 2 GB (Driver version 8.44)
- NVIDIA QuadroFX 1700 512 MB (Driver version 169.61)
- NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512 MB (Driver version 169.39)
- NVIDIA QuadroFX 5600 1.5 GB (Driver version 169.61)
Just as with our other workstation-class GPU articles – we’ve tested these cards with Windows XP (32-bit). Both NVIDIA and ATI claim XP to still be the dominant workstation-class operating system, and performance is fine tuned for this operating system in order to reflect that.
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As the FireGL V8600 and V8650 share the same clock speeds, it’s not surprising to set them score nearly identically in Cinebench, as this application does not consume more than 1 GB of frame buffer memory. The FireGL V8600 is able to outperform the QuadroFX 5600 card, but gets bested by NVIDIA’s new QuadroFX 3700 in this particular test.
