AMD send out hardware all the time. When I worked at a visual effect software house, AMD would send us all sorts of things. The main problem was thier linux dr

AMD send out hardware all the time. When I worked at a visual effect software house, AMD would send us all sorts of things. The main problem was thier linux drivers were terrible. A lot of the time thier hardware was faster at certain things. At one point (this is about the time of the quadro 2/3/4/5/6/000) the AMD firepro was 8 times as fast. However their driver support was terrible, and the time to fix was 6months+ There was a reason why the mac pro had two AMD GPUs in them, they were at the time light years faster.(and cheaper.)