14 DAY TRIAL // With the Financial Analyst Day out of the way, Advanced Micro Devices has gone back to work, and it looks like the professional graphics card market is getting served first.
AMD has announced the FirePro V3900 graphics adapter, an entry-level product that claims to deliver “up to 95% better application performance than the competition.”
Just what “the competition” refers to was left rather vague, so professionals will have to decide for themselves if this thing really is all that better than what NVIDIA offers.
The newcomer is based on the Turks GPU and has 480 stream processors, as well as 1GB of DDR3 memory, an interface of 128 bits and a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Furthermore, it supports Shader Model 5.0, OpenGL 4.2, OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11 and up to five displays at once, though only two outputs are available: Dual-Link DVI and DisplayPort 1.2 (the latter enables the max number of supported panels).
“The AMD FirePro V3900 is the most powerful entry-level professional graphics card on the market today,” says Sandeep Gupte, general manager of Professional Graphics, AMD.
“Armed with advanced multi-display capability of AMD Eyefinity technology, extensive certifications for professional applications and blazing fast performance, it offers best-in-class value for our technical and business customers.”
The AMD FirePro V3900 should have already become available in some workstation systems, its price being $119 (90.87 Euro).
It is shipped along with a low profile bracket and a DP-SL-DVI passive dongle, plus the obligatory quick start guide.
“HP makes workstations that meet the needs of the world's most demanding customers and feature the latest technologies,” says Jeff Wood, vice president of worldwide marketing, commercial solutions business unit, HP.
“The AMD FirePro(TM) V3900, in combination with our HP Z Workstations, offers robust performance for professional workstation applications, providing HP customers with a seamless user experience at an affordable price.”