Thursday, September 9th 2010
AMD Releases FirePro V9800 Professional Graphics Card
AMD released the FirePro V9800 professional graphics card. This is the company's top professional offering, based on the 40 nm Evergreen architecture. The GPU features 1600 stream processors, 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface connecting to 4 GB of memory, and display outputs that include six mini-DisplayPort connectors. The card supports the latest industry-standard 3D APIs including Microsoft DirectX 11, OpenGL 4, and includes support for OpenCL GPU-compute API. The card is meant for mission-critical environments such as oil and gas exploration, 3D medical imaging, design and engineering, and 3D content production. Apart from supporting the ATI Eyefinity6 technology, it also packs support for stereoscopic 3D technologies. The card will be sold directly under the AMD brand by board partners, it is priced at US $3,500.
19 Comments on AMD Releases FirePro V9800 Professional Graphics Card
And if yes which benefits does it give? I recall that autocad was accelerated by many gpus and not just those workstation cards :shadedshu
essentially it seems to be a 4gb 5870 eyefinitey6 edition running a different bios, I could be wrong tho.
Most of the cost goes into driver development specifically for OpenGL, plus as professional application specific certification, such as Autodesk products, CAD/CAM (such as Solid Works) and special effects processing, real time imaging, etc. etc. etc.
Back in the X800 days, there was a hardware hack to take a $250 card and turn it into a $1500 FireGL workstation card. I'm not sure if that's even close to possible with the 58xx series.
Would you like to be told you have cancer as the GPU rendering had some issues while it was processing the composite images from a contrast scan?
fortune 500 company in fact, and we dont run too much of theese.
5970 is the way! thats what they demand, and 12 I7 cores ofc, and 64 gb ram.
or is it?
It isnt... they cant get enough....
Alltho our standard is 3650mobile, G310mobile, 5870mobile(firepro version) and some quadro mobile.
5870 standard firepro version, and quadro 3800 have been a standard, all the upper designers have done.
4870x2 5970 or gtx280(no fermi have yet been purchased, and doesnt seem like they need)
the 280 is fast enough for the stuff the 5970 cannot handle.
We dont just buy firepro and quadro, we dont demand that videomemory, we just demand that we can say to ati, hey this app runs horrible, fix it. and thats why the price is so high.
Why such lengths have been taken to prevent this I believe has less to do with the amateur modeler and more with ensuring buyers who pay the premium that they actually receive a genuine Quadro/FireGL/Pro.