[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Last week AMD launched the FirePro V8800, which is
their first workstation graphics card derived from an ATI Evergreen
graphics processor and designed to be a step-up from the previously
reviewed FirePro V8700 and FirePro V8750. The AMD FirePro V8800
features 2GB of GDDR5 video memory with 147.2 GB/s of bandwidth,
1600 Stream processors, four DisplayPort outputs, ATI Eyefinity
support, DirectX 11.0 / OpenGL 4.0 support, OpenCL 1.0 capable, a
full 30-bit display pipeline, Multi-View display support, and much.
We have now carried out our Linux testing of this new ultra
high-end workstation graphics card and have the results to share
this morning.“The FirePro V8800 is just the first of the Evergreen-based
workstation graphics cards that AMD will be launching over the
coming months, but this is their new ultra high-end offering that
was introduced last week (pardon that this review was not published
on launch-day, due to touring Chernobyl). Besides doubling the
number of Stream processors and bringing Eyefinity and OpenGL 4.0
to the workstation arena and other features derived from the
Evergreen GPU, the clock speeds are also higher than with the
previous generation FireGL/FirePro cards. The RV870 core is clocked
at 825MHz while the 2GB GDDR5 memory is operating at 1150MHz. This
is in comparison to the FirePro V8700 that operated at 750/850MHz
or the V8750 that upped the memory clock to 900MHz. The now much
older FireGL V8600 ran at 688/868MHz. The FirePro V8800 is also
built off a 40nm manufacturing process where the older FirePro
V8700/V8750 GPU was on a 55nm process. AMD submitted the FirePro
V8800 to Phoronix as a test sample.”