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HEAD to HEAD - AMD FIREGL V3600 v NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 Review

At grass roots, the fight for leading the entry level position graphic’s card is severely fought after. This we can assure you, as much rests on these cards with volume sales whether as an integrated system or single cards into the corporate market place Back in August; AMD fired out the door its FireGL V3600 which took us all very much by surprise, with its raw performance and aggressive pricing. A month passed and very quietly Nvidia sneaked out the door its next array of new Quadro cards; some of which have been aggressively positioned and priced to meet the threat which by then from AMD’s new FireGL range was perceived by some as a clear and present danger.

Both cards have now been well looked at from many different angles, by reviewing sites and magazines, we being no different. Today though and an exclusive first; we have the golden opportunity of pitching both cards off face to face, and put to bed the answers and questions that have been firing about the community. Which is better? Which is Faster? Which performs best overall in price point performance?

This will be a swift article, though as always the results that will be shown will be precise and to the point allowing you the individual to draw that ever so important conclusion deciding upon which is better!

In order to briefly summarise, here are a few salient facts to covering each cards key functionality.

	ATI FireGL™ V3600	NVIDIA Quadro FX 570
Shader Processing Units	120	-
Memory Configuration	256MB	256MB
Memory Controller Interface	128-Bit	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB per second)	16GB/s	12.8GB/sec
Shader Model Support	4.0	4.0
Direct X 10 Support	Yes	Yes
Open GL Support	2.1	2.1
Per Pixel Colour Component Output	8, 10, 16-bit	8, 10, 16-bit
Display Output Connectors	2 DVI-I	2 DVI-I
Dual Digital	Yes	Yes
Digital Analog	Yes	Yes
Power Consumption	< 50 Watts	38 Watts

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - System Set-up and Software Used
Page 3 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 Multithread Results
Page 4 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 FSAA Results
Page 5 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 run_all Results
Page 6 - Conclusions

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