A sub $200 AMD FirePro benchmarked on Linux
Subject: Graphics Cards | November 3, 2011 - 01:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, firepro, V4900, linux, turks
Workstation graphics cards tend to be significantly more expensive than their desktop counterparts, something the new AMD FirePro V4900 seeks to overcome. The card is available for less than $200 but still comes with the advantages of the FirePro series, workstation application certification, a three-year hardware warranty and greater technical support than with a desktop GPU. Performance wise, the benchmarks that Phoronix ran showed the card to be nicely between the V4800 and V5800 so perhaps not worth immediately running out and upgrading from the previous low end model but definitely worth considering for new machines.
"AMD is announcing today a new FirePro workstation graphics card. What is being announced is not a new ultra high-end creation, but instead it's a new entry-level graphics card to fit in between the FirePro V4800 and FirePro V5800 / V5900: it's the AMD FirePro V4900. The FirePro V4900 will retail for less than $200 USD while offering up some nice capabilities for the price. Here is a launch-day look at the FirePro V4900 along with the first Linux benchmarks of this latest AMD workstation graphics creation."
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Podcast #156 - AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x and more!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 26, 2011 - 02:04 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: R6970, podcast, nvidia, Intel, firepro, amd, 990x, 990fx
PC Perspective Podcast #156- 5/26/2011
This week we talk about the AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x,Viewer questions and more!
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- 0:01:45 AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900 Professional Graphics Review
- 0:05:25 MSI R6970 Lightning Review: A Supercharged AMD Radeon HD 6970
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Computer , and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards! - 0:17:20 Intel Core i7-990X Gulftown Processor and DX58SO2 Motherboard Review
- 0:22:30 NVIDIA GTX 560 Review Coming soon
- 0:24:36 Cray Announces AMD Bulldozer CPU and NVIDIA Tesla GPU Supercomputer Capable of 50 Petaflops
- 0:27:38 Sneak Peak at the MSI 990FXA-GD65
- 0:30:13 ASUS Sabertooth Motherboard Supporting 990FX Chipset Pictured
- 0:32:33 Email from Jeff about Bulldozer leaks
- 0:36:00 Revisiting quad-gpus and the Law of Diminishing Returns
- 0:39:58 Leaking Llano and Bulldozer prices
- 0:43:57 Corsair Hydro H80 and H100 Water Coolers On The Horizon
- 0:46:30 Email from Bernie about desktop standby mode
- 0:51:05 Email from Jesse about overclocking temps
- 0:53:40 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Lucid Virtu - its working
- Jeremy: Remember Action Quake? How 'bout a little Action Half Life 2, still less buggy than your average commercial release and better supported.
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The FirePro Products get Cayman
Introduction
(Thanks to Steve Grever for providing insight on the product placement and attending the Professional Graphics Editor's Day in Austin, TX for us!)
On May 11, AMD invited a handful of technology journalists and hardware reviewers to Northern Islands FirePro Tech Day to unveil a pair of new professional graphics cards – the V5900 and V7900. We were under an NDA to discuss the new GPUs at that time, but now that the gag order has been lifted, we can finally give our readers an in-depth look at these mid-range and high-end graphics card offerings sporting custom features like Eyefinity, Geometry Boost and Power Tune technologies.
Sandeep Gupte, AMD’s product management director, introduced the new graphics cards during the one-day event and stated they will “deliver productivity and performance to professionals regardless of where they are working.” This is an interesting statement, but AMD is committed to providing graphics solutions beyond professional workstations to include mobile workstations, tablets and thin clients to increase productivity and performance across various form factors and operating systems.
Last year’s FirePro lineup helped AMD increase their unit share by six points in the professional graphics market. This share increase puts them at about 16 percent overall, which was also supported by sales with Tier 1 OEMs like HP and Dell. This percentage of market share has improved over the single-digit shares AMD experienced in this market back in 2007.
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AMD FirePro V5900 & V7900: Professional Card, 3 Displays, Cheap...ish
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | May 24, 2011 - 02:18 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: firepro, amd
There exists a breed of video card users who want power, but not in games. They will pay thousands for the best hardware and not measure success in frames per second, but seconds per frame. There exists: professionals. AMD, NVIDIA, Matrox, and others cater to this market’s desire for top performance, features, and reliability in content production, scientific simulation, and engineering applications. AMD just recently updated their professional line with the V5900 and V7900 cards and are lauding some advantages to going red.
Professionals have standards: Be efficient. That is all.
There are four main points that AMD boasts for their latest entries into the professional market.
- Geometry Boost: doubles the amount of geometry that can be processed per clock by the card which should make using large models a smoother experience.
- EQAA: a new method of antialiasing which allows graphics cards to raise the level of antialiasing, but only for part of the process, and provide quality close to the higher level with a performance hit only slightly larger than the lower level. NVIDIA had CSAA, which is almost identical, for a while though.
- PowerTune: a method of raising and lowering the clock rate of various components of the card to compensate for the differing load across the card at different times.
- Single-card triple-monitor: the ability to connect more than two monitors to a single single-slot card allows professionals to have three (or four for the V7900) displays saving money, heat, and space. This is possibly the most compelling feature of the entire line, especially for the professional market.
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