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Apr. 12, 2010

AMD says it has launched its new FirePro V-8800 3D graphics card, a new workstation graphics card derived from an ATI Evergreen graphics processor and designed to be a step-up from the previously reviewed FirePro V8700 and FirePro V-8750.

The new AMD FirePro V-8800 video card features 2 Gb of GDDR5 video memory with 147.2 Gb/sec. of bandwidth, 1600 Stream processors, four DisplayPort outputs, ATI Eyefinity support, DirectX 11.0 / OpenGL 4.0 support, OpenCL 1.0 capable, a full 30-bit display pipeline, Multi-View display support, and more.

We have now carried out our Linux testing of this new ultra high-end workstation graphics card and have the results to share today.

The AMD FirePro V-8800 is just the first of the Evergreen-based workstation graphics cards that the company will be launching over the coming months.

The V-8800 is an ultra high-end offering that was introduced last week. Besides doubling the number of Stream processors and bringing Eyefinity and OpenGL 4.0 to the workstation arena and other features derived from the Evergreen GPU, the clock speeds are also higher than with the previous generation Fire-GL/FirePro cards.

The RV-870 core is clocked at 825 MHz while the 2 GB GDDR5 memory is operating at 1150 MHz. This is in comparison to the FirePro V-8700 that operated at 750/850 MHz or the V-8750 that upped the memory clock to 900 MHz.

The much older Fire GL V-8600 ran at 688/868 MHz. The FirePro V-8800 is also built off a 40 nm manufacturing process where the older FirePro V-8700/V-8750 GPU was on a 55 nm process.

AMD submitted the FirePro V-8800 to Phoronix as a test sample.

AMD's new FirePro V-8800 graphics card is noticeably larger than the V-8700 series hardware, but it is not quite as big as the massive FireGL V-8600 graphics card.

There is a matte black shroud covering the heatsink of this graphics card.

In fact, the heatsink runs the entire length of the graphics cards printed circuit board. The fan on this GPU heatsink is about the same size as the V-8700/8750 video cards and it operates at roughly the same noise level on most of the other tests we ran in the lab.

In January, AMD launched its long-awaited ATI Radeon™ HD-5670 graphics chip. This is its latest addition to the line-up of graphics products that can support Microsoft's Direct X® 11 gaming and computing software, as well as new innovations such as ATI Eyefinity technology.

Priced at less than $99, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5670 graphics chip enables a superior high-definition gaming experience in the latest Direct X® 11 titles, employs ATI Streaming technology to increase performance in video playback and productivity applications and helps enable the full Microsoft Windows® 7 experience to the next level.

Source: AMD.

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