AMD FirePro Marketing Video: Good Idea, Bad Idea

Here’s a humorous new marketing video from AMD pushing their AMD FirePro cards.  They tackle the “unnamed Green-colored Vendor” as being overpriced, power-hungry, and less effective (4 monitors on 2 cards, vs 6 monitors on 1).  It’s funny if not entirely accurate, but it’s marketing fluff, so who cares if it’s 100% accurate right? 90% is good enough.

I do have to wonder why NVidia sells Quadro’s for $5k.

Update 6/2 10am: Looks like AMD pulled it down, or at least marked it “Private”.  No indication on why…

YouTube – AMD FirePro: Good Idea, Bad Idea.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .