Project RED THUNDER

Since initial launch of the first new FireGL products back in August of last year we have been constantly bombarded with the ultimate question – just how fast are these cards going to be?  At each showing of every new card you the reader has been totally shocked at how well each new card has performed especially with the aggressive price point they are being sold at.   With this we see each step of the way bigger chunks of NVIDIA’s market share being torn away as many people are so impressed with the raw performance and solid driver support.

Within the High End Entry level range of cards this is were some of the most serious aggressive price point and attention to detail is focused with each new card coming online from both ATI and NVIDIA.   Today is no different with our exclusive first showing of the new ATI FireGL V7700.

For a few months now the mutterings have been swinging back and forth around the Internet of Project XXX Thunder or in some areas PROJECT RED THUNDER.  With what we have in store for you today all will become clear and you will understand why this has been know as Project Red Thunder. 

1.   The Red of ATI brings a clear and present danger to the competition
2.   The Thunderous devastation that this new card brings to the fore. 
3.   This will demolish and destroy the competition

There has been a lot of speculation to what the cards build was to be?  A single Multi GPU card, a Crossfire set-up?   No, just one GPU so finely tuned, it immediately earned the name of RED THUNDER. 

We did hope to head to head the NVIDIA QUADRO FX4600 or the NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3700 to see which the better card was.  However our attempts to gain one have been blocked every step of the way.  With this in mind we can only advise you the reader to look over at the SPEC Website and compare with what has been shown today to get factual evidence of which is better.  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!   One point of important note.   Our hearty congratulations to SCAN Computers for making their listing up online within the SPEC Website.   This is a remarkable achievement.  It also goes to show that companies of this nature can compete seriously with the bigger resellers.

Therefore we the foreword complete lets now delve into the make of this new Thunderous Card and see what it has to offer you all.

(Our thanks to ATI Public Relations in forwarding this advance information)

With these facts now established on what the card is fully capable of lets take a brief summary look at the complete FireGL range and see how the new V7700 sits within the range.

Finally we move onwards to the next page for what everyone has been waiting for a look at the beast in the flesh.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - FireGL V7700 Pictures
Page 3 - Configured Intel X38 (Bonetrail) Test System
Page 4 - Configured Intel D5400XS (Skulltrail) Test System
Page 5 - Test Systems Set-up and Software Used
Page 6- 3DS Max SP2 Scenes
Page 7 - Cinebench 10
Page 8 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
Page 9 - SPECviewperf® 10.0
Page 10 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 (FSAA)
Page 11 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 (Multi Threading)
Page 12 - Conclusions