AMD announced today the launch of their newest FirePro professional workstation GPUs. Based on the successful Evergreen series of chips that fuel the Radeon HD 5xxx cards, the new FirePro GPUs support DirectX 11 as well as AMD’s mutli-monitor wizardry known as Eyefinity. AMD is headlining this release with their new ultra high-end part, the FirePro V8800.
The FirePro V8800 hits the ground running as the world’s most powerful professional graphics solution. It sports 2Gb of GDDR5 memory, 147.2 Gb/s memory bandwidth, an 825MHz core clock, and 1600 stream processors (effectively doubling that of the v8750 of the previous generation). The V8800 is being launched with a surprisingly modest MSRP of $1499.
A valuable feature added to the FirePro V8800 is support for AMD’s Eyefinity multi-display technology. With a single V8800 GPU, a workstation can use up to four displays simultaneously. The additional workspace should prove quite valuable for professionals that juggle many applications in tandem.
Support for Microsoft DirectX 11 places the FirePro V8800 as the only workstation GPU on the market to have such compliance. This also makes the V8800 the first workstation graphics solution to support DirectCompute 11.
Over the next few months, AMD will be rolling out its full lineup of next-generation FirePro cards built on Evergreen. A full range of solutions are planned, covering professional needs in CAD, digital content creation, medical, broadcast television, medical imaging, and financial services.
Icrontic had a chance to test the FirePro V8800 at AMD’s world headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. A full analysis of the GPU will be available soon.
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