AMD FirePro 2270 and V5800 DVI Professional Graphics Cards Launched

AMD today introduced the AMD FirePro 2270 and ATI FirePro V5800 DVI professional graphics cards. The first one is an entry-level card while the latter is a heavy duty video card. According to AMD, both are designed for professionals in the medical, financial, design and engineering fields who require the ability to view and interact with multiple applications simultaneously.

As AMD’s only low-profile, passively cooled, dual-display, triple set support solution graphics card, the AMD FirePro 2270 (pictured above) delivers multi-display capabilities for increased efficiency, longevity and compatibility. Additionally, the AMD FirePro 2270 enables efficient multitasking across multiple applications, including graphics intensive applications, helping to prevent system slowdowns. As for I/O connectivity it provides DisplayPort, DVI and VGA. It is priced at $149.

On the other hand the ATI FirePro V5800 DVI (pictured below) delivers professionals the graphics performance needed to drive two high-resolution dual link DVI displays while offering users the ability to stretch one image or application across both screens for expanded field of view and enhanced productivity. Support for DVI, the most common digital interface, makes setting up dual-display configurations easier than ever. The ATI FirePro V5800 DVI professional graphics delivers a full 30-bit display pipeline to enable increased color reproduction and superb visual fidelity and supports packed pixel mode to support dual 5MP medical displays. It is priced at $469.

AMD Radeon HD 6990 Graphics Card Pictured

Just three days back we'd told you about the AMD Radeon HD 6990 'Antilles' graphics card. And guess what it has now been pictured! The above image is of AMD Radeon HD 6990.

The video card is powered by two 40nm 'Cayman' GPU. Other features include 3072 stream processors, a total of 4GB memory, dual-link DVI, four mini DisplaPort 1.2, and support for 4-GPU CrossFireX.

We also know that the GPU provides up to 6.0 TFLOPS of single precision and 1.5 TFLOPS of double precision, 307.2 GB/s bandwidth, and TDP of 300W.

Its 'unique' cooling system is quite similar to that of the GeForce GTX 295 single-PCB.

The AMD Radeon HD 6990 is expected to be released later this quarter.

[via techpowerup]

HD 6950

If you plug 11188-01-40G into Google, you'll find it references a Sapphire HD 6950 videocard with 1GB of GDDR5 memory, or half the amount of a standard 6950 part. You can already find a handful of U.K. vendors selling the new card, though it hasn't shown up on familiar U.S. sites like Newegg just yet.

The obvious upshot here is that these cards will cost less than their fully equipped brethren. Sapphire's above mentioned model is the only one we've found, but so far it doesn't appear anything other than the amount of RAM has changed; clockspeeds and other features still match up.

While Sapphire appears to be leading the charge, German website HT4U.net says other vendors will soon follow, offering both HD 6950 and 6970 cards less memory.

Would you be interested in a Cayman card with 1GB of memory?



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