Hello Everyone,



As many of you know, ATI has been particularly aggressive with their FireGL
workstation graphics card lineup over the past six months. While their
flagship R600-architecture was the basis for the solid (but ultimately
underwhelming) Radeon HD2900XT for the gaming market, our tests have shown
that this particular GPU architecture is much more competitive in the
workstation market. While the R600 may not be the best choice for a high-end
gaming rig, it is indeed a powerful chip for high-end OpenGL work, and as
such, has led to a revival of sorts for ATI's FireGL lineup.



With an excellent performing workstation GPU in tow, ATI finally took the
steps to get their latest generation of FireGL cards out to the market fast
- much faster than we've seen from them in the past. ATI now has a number of
R600-based workstation products out on the market, and is competing quite
well with NVIDIA in terms of both price and performance. ATI's cards
generally offer nearly all the bang for the buck as the QuadroFX lineup, but
ATI has some unique models as well which give them their own following of
users. One of their newest models, the FireGL V8600 1GB, has finally hit the
market. And this is the card we'll be looking at today...



Article URL: http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI_FireGL_V8600_1_GB



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