fire gl 7900 or not

[RALPH_PINEL]

Has anyone been using the ati firegl cards with max and vray.
I have the 7900 It seam very buggy and wondering if it’s worth keeping.
Not sure if an ati i card works very well with rt since vray favours they using nvidia.
It certainly not working well here.
The quatro card are far to much money for little or no noticeable performance gains.
so back to an nvidia gaming card i guess.

[kellyctv]

My firm was using the v7800's for awhile. They perform pretty well and are cheaper than the Quadro's, but like you say are a bit buggy, and have been nothing but trouble with RT. We have tried out a few Quadro 4000 cards and they are really solid but slow in comparison to the v7800, and more expensive. We've been switching all our cards out to GTX 580's as we get new workstations in and i've been very pleased with their performance.

[michaelwbell]

I'm having problems with My Firepro V5800. It's usually been pretty solid, and had good performance in Max 2012's Nitrous.
They very very rarely release Driver updates though. The latest 4 updates have disabled Eyefinity support (3+ monitors) on my card! Unbelievable.
I contacted support and was told it was a hardware problem. Gone back a few driver versions and the hardware is working fine, as I type this!

There is also obviously no CUDA support, so forget using Rayfire or Mercury playback engine in adobe Suite. There's no 3D vision; Ati's stereoscopic support is terrible in comparison!
My firepro has never worked properly with Vray RT, i just rely on the cpu.

I'm going to Sell my Firepro and buy a nVidia 680GTX 4GB. In my opinion, if you're using vRay/max/adobe there is no other ATI/nVidia card that is better value for money than a good Geforce with stacks of ram.

[Morbid Angel]

nVidia all the way guys...why go through so much trouble for something a little less expensive and a little more powerful (maybe?)
I had radeon once, first and last ATI ever, nothing but problems, stuck with nvidia ever since, and never been happier. Not to say they are perfect, by far not, but better then ATI for sure.

[MoonDoggie]

nVidia all the way guys...why go through so much trouble for something a little less expensive and a little more powerful (maybe?)
I had radeon once, first and last ATI ever, nothing but problems, stuck with nvidia ever since, and never been happier. Not to say they are perfect, by far not, but better then ATI for sure.

Agreed. As an prior AMD and ATI fanboy, my vote is always for intel/nvidia currently. I will re-evaluate when ATI/AMD shows me what they can do, but until then...

[Morne]

Agreed. As an prior AMD and ATI fanboy, my vote is always for intel/nvidia currently. I will re-evaluate when ATI/AMD shows me what they can do, but until then...

Same here, ATI seem to be having problems with their drivers sadly...