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Maya 5 scores: Graphics vs. I/O and CPU vs. I/O, higher is better. For reasons of simplicity, we left out the different driver revisions, all scores shown are using the 43.09 drivers. Except for the "Hand", there are no differences between any of the nVidia cards which raises some serious doubts about the practical value of this benchmark suite since it seems to measure driver performance rather than actual hardware performance. The only graphics adapter that falls behind is the FireGL X1, and the consistency of this result in combination with the inability of SPECapc to discriminate between yesteryears Quadro4 980XGL and the top of the line FX3000 point to either a systematic error in the benchmark or else the simple fact that it does not measure graphics adapter performance but rather system performance --- which, in the case of the FireGL may lag a bit because of drivers that are potentially not as OpenGL-savvy as their nVidia counterparts.