SolidWorks 2009 on a FirePro v3750 vs Radeon 4850

Video capture from the SolidWorks World 2009 conference that shows off the performance difference between using a top of the line Radeon card ($200), vs the low-end FirePro 3750 ($200) for professional applications such as SolidWorks 2009. It's the drivers and testing that give the FirePro the edge - and that is obviously a big edge if you are a SolidWorks users.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• FirePro
• Radeon
• GPU
• SolidWorks

[magnificatorig]

performance difference? no... driver difference? sure :)

you can get least 90% of the FirePro power with the correspondent Radeon card when you hack the firepro driver to run on radeons... not complicated, and the CAD systems loving it...

[amerikanight]

@TestVideo2SamsPimp uhh.... yeah that was the point of the post. so... STUPIDEST COMMENT EVER! haha

[ForThereIsATomorrow]

He is just saying that the comparison is unfair; both cards do support opengl but one is using it and the other is not. So it is not about the cards it is about the support/software for those cards. If you really wanted to compare the true power of those cards then use a benchmark program so it's fair, this is just marketing.

[Balthasar00101]

@TestVideo2SamsPimp lol even if 1 years old.. dude! thats the whole point.. you don't get it..

[Jacor74]

@okokewtf  LCD

[MrLestatto]

It's not SolidWorks 2009, lol. That's SPECviewperf 10 test sw-02, in real SolidWorks only difference is support for RealView on FireGL/Pro and Quadro cards, no performance issues on consumer cards whatsoever.

[233kosta]

The comparison is irrelevant as the 4850 provides no acceleration to SW'09 by default. It's not a faster card, it's just got professional acceleration enabled in the BIOS. In the 4850 case the CPU is doing all the work and the GPU just puts it up on the screen(far as I know, an iGPU can do EXACTLY the same job at that)

[hateWinVista]

@okokewtf

dell?

[okokewtf]

What monitors are they?

[Pi3c3]

Yepp... One is for gaming, other is for workstations. But these cards will never render you down a scene at all. The only extra that you can get from these cards are faster viewport and not rendering... There is no card at the moment that supports real time rendering... :)