AMD announced the launch this week a new top model among the company's video products for professional users. ATI Firepro V9800 is the most powerful professional graphics card from AMD to date.
The card is aimed at users of digital content production, CAD and visualization. It supports, among other things Eyefinity technology which allows one adapter to connect to up to six screens at once, by offering a resolution up to 5760 x 2160 pixels.
The new card is equipped with 4 gigabytes of GDDR5 memory, which is a new record for AMD. The large memory will primarily be useful for users in industries where they treat very large data sets, including the oil and gas industry, medicine and animation.
Compared with earlier FirePro-models, the V9800 deliver 25 percent higher stream processor performance and more than twice as high floating point performance with both single and double precision. The card supports standards such as OpenCL, OpenGL 4.0, DirectX 11 and DirectCompute.
- The ability to run six monitor outputs simultaneously and achieve such a large picture of a very high-resolution screen is a big step forward for apertures cooperation, "said Jerome Maillot, Senior Director of Dassault Systèmes, in a press release.
- Sharing a 3D model in full will and achieve a significant cost reduction at the same time sounds like a dream. Yet it is a reality, "says Maillot.
ATI FirePro V9800 has a suggested retail price of 3,500 dollars.
