Modern performance of FireGL V8600

[SSDi]

What kind of performance could I expect from a V8600 in modern CAD programs?

 

[middlemarkal]

it has 320 shader running at 688Mhz with 1 gig of ram GDDR4

not very good, at the level of a 820m in the gaming world.

for autocad it's below a 109$ card :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195112

 

[SSDi]

Is it worth running alongside a Xeon, if the alternative is integrated graphics?

 

[middlemarkal]

anything is better then internal graphic, amd stopped support it with drivers in 2012

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation/previous/detail?os=Windows%207%20-%2064&rev=8.911.3.4

for OS win XP, 7 , vista 32 or 64bit, no server version