While NVidia has Quadro, AMD has FirePro, a similar line of high-performance cards targeted at graphics designers and visual effects artists. Yesterday they announced the new line of FirePro cards, the ATI FirePro V8800, which supports DirectX11 and Eyefinity multi-display technology. That’s not all tho, as the new card offers 2.6 teraflops of compute power and an impressive 147.2GB/s of memory bandwidth, beating out the QuadroFX5800’s 104GB/s. The card can drive 4 independent 30″ displays (via Displayport), and works with the S400 Synchronization Module.
“Autodesk recognizes the importance of having our customers invest in a professional graphics solution,” said Jim White, director of Global Alliances, Autodesk. “Together with AMD, a leader in the professional graphics space, we’re able to provide Autodesk users with visually accurate, high performance creative tools. We look forward to working with AMD and the next generation of ATI FirePro graphics to enable our customers with exceptional productivity.”
Has an MSRP of $1499 USD, although I don’t see it available on NewEgg or Tigerdirect yet.
