With the FirePro V8800, a single card is able to power a 4k projector (one featuring a resolution of 4,000 pixels wide) on its own. In recent years this market has been dominated by Nvidia with its high-end Quadro FX cards and Quadro Plex systems, but AMD is confident that the FirePro V8800 can offer the sector a much more cost effective solution. Increasing screen real estate on the desktop is one thing, but Eyefinity also has the potential to change the game when it comes to performing design review and digital mockup on powerwalls. That’s an incredible amount of desktop space for running concurrent 3D applications Driving powerwalls With its four DisplayPort connectors, the ATI FirePro V8800 can support up to four high resolution displays up to 2,560 x 1,600 resolution. Previously, in order to support this amount of monitors, Kirkham had to use multiple graphics cards in a single machine, which according to Steve Kirkham often caused problems. SolidWorks is run on the main 37-inch display, with SurfCAM on a second 23-inch screen and live video from webcams used to monitor its shop floor CNC machines on a third. Kirkham Motorsports, a manufacturer of aluminium-bodied Roadster cars, has been testing the FirePro V8800 prior to launch and uses three monitors side by side. The technology that supports these multiple monitors is called Eyefinity and while we have yet to test it out – primarily because we didn’t have enough displays to hand – we have talked to customers who have used the technology and swear by it. For designers and engineers that commonly use a variety of applications concurrently, that’s an awful lot of valuable desktop space. With four DisplayPorts as standard the card can drive up to four independent 30-inch displays at resolutions up to 2,560 x 1,600, either as one extended desktop or as independent displays. For VGA monitors the adapter is a cost option. As DisplayPort is a relatively new interface designed specifically for hi-res displays, an adapter for DVI displays is included in the box.
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The card boasts a total of four DisplayPort connectors, which is a first for a professional 3D card. These are connected direct to the workstation’s power supply, which in many cases will need to be 1000W units. Power is drawn through the PCI Express slot but two additional power cables are also required. All of this requires a significant amount of power and the card consumes up to 225W, which is at the top end for professional graphics. The double height board features 2GB of high bandwidth GDDR5 memory and boasts a total of 1,600 stream processors. On paper, and in the flesh, the ATI FirePro V8800 is a beast. This is a hugely powerful workstation-class board, which in addition to setting new records in 3D graphics benchmarks boasts a number of features that have the potential to transform the way we work with multiple monitors or explore digital mockups on powerwalls. The ATI FirePro V5800 has been refurbished by the manufacturer and is, for example, suitable for use in HP Workstation z200 to z800 the series.High-end in the extreme is the best way to describe AMD ‘s brand new professional 3D graphics card, the ATI FirePro V8800, the details of which were released this week. For monitors are two DisplayPort connectors and a DVI-I connection. It is operated video card on a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot.
The maximum power consumption is 75 W, a correspondingly powerful web part should be present. In addition, the ATI FirePro V5800 graphics card supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2, OpenCL 1.1 and for cross-platform development environments. When memory is 1 GB of GDDR5 RAM is used, which is accessed via a bandwidth of 64 GB / s. Create overburden complex scenes and geometries without the CPU. The ATI FirePro V5800 graphics card is used especially in professional system, which is particularly important, stability, performance and compatibility.