AMD’s ATI FirePro V8800 Targets Pro Graphics

By Geoff Duncan Published April 7, 2010

It’s true that gamers love their high-end graphics hardware…but it’s also true that many of the really high-end toys target graphics professionals in the broadcast, CAD, digital modeling, and medical imaging fields. With those folks in mind, AMD has just released its ATI FirePro V8800 graphics card, a high-performance card based on the ATi Radeon HD 5000 series that brings 1,600 stream processors, 2 GB of GDDR5 video memory, and support for up to four displays…right out of the box.

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The FirePro V8800 offers 2.6 teraflops of computing power along with what AMD claims is the highest memory bandwidth available on any single-card solution (147.2 GB/s). The card supports OpenGL 3.2 (4.0 support coming soon), OpenCL 1.0, and DirectX 11—along with DirectCompute 11. The card also features AutoDetect functionality to optimize performance in multi-application workflows, and all four display outputs can be synchronized with the ATI FirePro S400 Synchronization module.

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But all this doesn’t come cheap: the ATI FirePro V8800 is priced at $1,499—and it’s just the first in what AMD is promising will be a series of high-end AT FirePro solutions aimed at digital content creators, CAD professionals, broadcasters, medical imaging, and other professional niches.

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