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Those links say the Geforce cards perform faster than WS cards. They only lose when the scenes are larger than the onboard VRAM.
Let me say some words about the benchmark :
The real Benchmark is among FX 3800, FX 4800, V8700, V8750 and GTX 585, 480 and HD 5870. Other WS cards are just too weak to be compared.
The benchmark has not covered even some of most used apps by the pro users like Maya, Solid Works, Catia so I just can't call it a complete benchmark - to be honest it's pretty lame.
The Gaming cards performed well for obvious reason - they have more SP count, increased core and mem speed, more bandwidth, more bus width, newer architecture, new mem type - almost everything is better spec wise of these gaming cards put into the comparison benchmark - so they showed their strengths.
But the WS cards has some unique features and that's why they performed well when those features were really used by those apps - but the only hitch about them is their exorbitant price point - they are just astronomically high priced -
so they don't seem to be very practical to all and not every time every user needs to use those unique features offered by the WS cards.
But a real pro user knows very well what a WS cards means to him and what's the importance of those unique features and how they effect their works and thats' why many pro user world wide use WS cards and they don't hesitate to pay high prices for that.
To understand it more clearly I'm pointing you towards another benchmark :
For example a FirePro V8700 can't be compared with HD5870. Spec wise it's very similar to the HD4870 and look at this -
Gaming Versus Workstation Performance : Radeon HD 4870 Versus FirePro V8700
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Here's what they concluded :
That's why we can recommend the ATI FirePro V8700 as an ideal product for demanding all-around graphics professionals, without any doubts or hesitation whatsoever.
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