Puzzled as puzzled can be: 8800 lower performance than 2600 in Pro Apps.

Yep. You read correctly. I'm speechlss...and very sad.
Barefeats has published some very interesting benchmarks in Motion and iMaginator, besides some popular games. The ATI2600 wins by far on the pro apps.
That's insane as the 8800 is far, far superior.
Apple, listen:
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-at this price range we, consumers, must pretend!
-video derivers: obviously they are badly written.
-cores usage: obviously they are not optimized in Apple apps as they are in Adobe's.
I'll save my grands and will look at Windows workstations as a curiosity.
Less iPhones-MORE MACS!
I

I wonder how much could be due to drivers and application support. The Graphics Update 1.0 (a new feature, having a stand-alone driver package) and how much time, now that 8800 is here, to see improvements.
Some people said WoW saw 20% improvement. Vista drivers took a year. The 5600 is marketed to higher-end market with 1.5GB RAM.
From the above link on Barefeats, quote:
+the Quadro FX 5600 does feature more video memory than the GeForce 8800 GT (1.5GB vs 512MB). And, according to one Maya guru, the extra memory (and superior memory management code) of the Quadro workstation cards becomes useful for frame buffering in apps like Maya. This is especially true for redraw of multiple views of the same complex 3D model.+
+This has been enhanced further by Quadro FX 5600's new integrated memory allocation which allows the card to dynamically allocate on-board RAM to whatever task is at hand rather than have specific hard wired allocations. So rather than say a maximum of 40% of total on-board RAM dedicated to the texture buffer the card can ramp up and down from 80% sharing with the immediate needs of the other buffers.+
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