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@ 2010/09/09Say hello to the new king of AMD's professional graphics lineup: the FirePro V9800. This freshly announced offering boasts 4GB of RAM, six display outputs, the highest overall performance of any FirePro desktop card released to date... and an appropriate $3,499 price tag.
Under the hood, the FirePro V9800 sports the same Cypress chip as the FirePro V8800 we wrote about in April. In fact, the two cards have a lot in common: 1600 stream processors, 147.2GB/s of memory bandwidth, and even identical clock speeds. The new card purportedly reaches slightly higher scores in SPECviewperf 11, however, and it actually has a lower thermal envelope despite packing twice as much memory. (AMD quotes a TDP of 199W, about 9W below that of the V8800.)
Under the hood, the FirePro V9800 sports the same Cypress chip as the FirePro V8800 we wrote about in April. In fact, the two cards have a lot in common: 1600 stream processors, 147.2GB/s of memory bandwidth, and even identical clock speeds. The new card purportedly reaches slightly higher scores in SPECviewperf 11, however, and it actually has a lower thermal envelope despite packing twice as much memory. (AMD quotes a TDP of 199W, about 9W below that of the V8800.)
