AMD Launches ATI FirePro V8800; Cheap at $1499
$1,499? Not bad for a workstation-level GPU solution.
Now with gamers and other PC enthusiasts enjoying ATI's 40nm Evergreen family of GPUs, AMD is expanding it into the professional space meant for CAD, Digital Content Creation (DCC), Broadcast, Medical Imaging and Financial Services.
AMD today announced its new FirePro V8800 professional GPU with support for ATI Eyefinity technology. AMD boasts that the FirePro V8800 delivers 2.6 teraflops of raw computing power with the highest memory bandwidth (147.2 GB/s) available in any single-card professional graphics solution.
If you're feeling the squeeze from the price tag of a Radeon HD 5970, then know that the pros have to pay $1499 USD for the FirePro V8800, which is considered affordable as it's $300 less than the previous generation.
ATI Eyefinity technology now expands outputs to three and four display desktop configurations to drive up to four independent displays for 16.4 million pixels in total resolution.
"Autodesk recognizes the importance of having our customers invest in a professional graphics solution," said Jim White, director of Global Alliances, Autodesk. "Together with AMD, a leader in the professional graphics space, we’re able to provide Autodesk users with visually accurate, high performance creative tools. We look forward to working with AMD and the next generation of ATI FirePro graphics to enable our customers with exceptional productivity."
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OMG combine this with the new Stream encoder plug-ins for Adobe Premiere and Quadro can take a hike!
Can I use this card to play videogames? No joke or pun intended, I'm just asking. Can I put this video card inside my pc? Or is just for workstations? Because assuming that someone has lots of money wouldn't be great just to build a super powerful pc/workstation for games like Crysis and such...Hope you understand what I mean...
its pretty much the same as a normal graphics card, but it has special drivers, that makes it good at working, and not playing lol... if they wanted they could put it playing games... The price is so high in workstation graphics because of the driver was developed specifically for that porpose, and since less cards are going to be sold they have to spread the driver fee by fewer cards for them to have any profit...
Can I use this card to play videogames? No joke or pun intended, I'm just asking. Can I put this video card inside my pc? Or is just for workstations? Because assuming that someone has lots of money wouldn't be great just to build a super powerful pc/workstation for games like Crysis and such...Hope you understand what I mean...
The hardware itself is identical to a 5870, so it could indeed do good for gaming.
But the price premium exists thanks to the drivers, which are optimised for professional apps. For example, they tend to be made primarily for OpenGL rather than the gaming standard DirectX11.
So in short: it would be possible, but gaming performance would be extremely unreliable due to poor drivers and the hardware is no more powerful than the cheaper 5870.
the price premium exists thanks to the drivers, which are optimised for professional apps.
Well that, and typically at least double the amount of VRAM.
Nice kit!