AMD Ups The Workstation Ante With A New FirePro Driver

“Whether you are an owner of an ATI FirePro V3800 that retails
for just over $100 USD, the proud owner of an ATI FirePro V8800
that goes for over $1,300 USD, or any of the FirePro products
in-between, you will want to update your graphics driver when AMD
puts out their next stable software update. Back in March AMD put
out an amazing FirePro Linux driver that increased the performance
of their workstation graphics cards already on the market (and the
other Evergreen-based workstation cards that entered the market
soon after) by an astonishing amount. Our independent tests of this
proprietary Linux driver update found that the performance in some
workstation applications had increased by up to 59% by simply
installing this updated driver while other OpenGL tests had just
improved rather modestly with 20%+ gains. AMD though is preparing
to release another driver update for Microsoft Windows and Linux
that ups their workstation graphics performance even more! We have
run some tests of this new beta driver against their older driver
with both their low-end and ultra-high-end FirePro products and
have found the improvements again to be astonishing.”

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