14 DAY TRIAL // Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has just announced the launch of its latest graphics card product, coming to provide users with the company's highest performance solution for the professional segment. The new card, simply dubbed ATI FirePro V8750, is joining other high-end FirePro cards, like the FirePro V8700 the company launched in early September last year. The new model is built on the same RV770 graphics core as the aforementioned one, but it comes with a boost in memory performance, featuring a total of 2GB of GDDR5 memory, up from 1GB available on the previous flagship card.
“Digital content creation and high end CAD users have been held hostage to high-priced solutions for advanced rendering,” said Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics. “The ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation graphics accelerator delivers unparalleled performance and two GB of frame buffer memory for less than $1,800 MSRP. Creative and engineering professionals can now afford the powerful graphics they deserve.”
As compared to the previously launched FirePro V8700, the new AMD professional graphics card comes with the same 55nm-based RV770 graphics core, featuring a core speed of 750MHz and coupled with 800 Stream processors. The card supports Shader Model 4.1 (DirectX 10.1) and OpenGL 2.1. There are 2GB of GDDR5 memory available on it, clocked at 900MHz. The 256-bit memory works at a 115GB/s memory bandwidth and is meant to help professional users to deal with performance-demanding applications without worrying about resources.
The card boasts a PCI Express 2.0 x16 and comes with two DisplayPorts, one DL-DVI output and a Stereoscopic output. Like most high-performance, dual-slot graphics cards, the new FirePro V8750 professional solution comes with 2 x 6-pin power connectors. At an MSRP of US$1,799.99, the FirePro V8750 is US$300 more expensive than the one AMD launched in September.