AMD today launched the AMD FirePro V3900, which enables best-in-class workstation experiences at an entry-level price point. By leveraging AMD’s latest graphics features, including AMD Eyefinity technology, the AMD FirePro V3900 provides up to 95% better application performance than the competition. The AMD FirePro V3900 will be available in select workstation systems today and will [...]

AMD today launched the AMD FirePro V4900, which delivers unequaled performance for Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Computer Aided Design (CAD) professionals at an entry-level price point. By leveraging AMD’s most advanced graphics technology, including AMD Eyefinity technology, the AMD FirePro V4900 significantly improves application performance and drives efficiency in the workplace. In fact, the [...]

AMD Corp. is backed by broadcast technology leaders such as AJA Video Systems, Blackmagic Design, Bluefish444, Deltacast, DVS, and Matrox, as it launches the AMD FirePro SDI-Link and AMD FirePro V7900 SDI Professional Graphics Card. The solutions unveiled at the IBC 2011 are aimed to address real-time and GPU-accelerated broadcast pipelines, which require serial digital [...]

The ability to wear multiple hats applies as much to people as it does to technology. When I’m not at work I’m a husband, father, baseball coach, hockey fan, sushi addict, foursquare fanatic and successful comedian. While that last point may be a stretch it’s no joke that I’m responsible for the development of our [...]

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft’s desktop virtualization technology. A single FirePro V9800P GPU will be able to deliver up to 22 Windows 7 virtual-desktop sessions per graphics card, said Mitch Furman, senior product manager [...]

The PC Perspective Podcast is your weekly stop for the latest PC tech news and reviews! Give it a listen! When the AMD Evergreen series of GPUs was released back in September of 2009, we knew that an update to the professional graphics lineup from AMD wasn’t going to be far behind. We reviewed the [...]

As summer winds down, the professional graphics market, it appears, is just starting to heat up. About a month ago, we tested the Fermi based Quadro 6000 and 5000 graphics cards from NVIDIA. Although they were a few months late to the party, our results revealed the Quadro models held a measurable performance advantage over [...]

NVIDIA sure didn’t waste any time introducing its Fermi architecture to the workstation space. Its Quadro 5000 is one of the first models to use the company’s GF100 graphics processor. How does this card stack up against ATI’s flagship FirePro V8800? The first half of this year felt like NVIDIA was taking a time-out or [...]

Earlier this month AMD launched the FirePro V8800 graphics card, the first professional level GPU using the latest Evergreen architecture. With it came a new high in professional graphics performance when compared to the likes of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 4800 and the previous generation of the FirePro, the V8700. When we were briefed by AMD [...]

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 [...]

Most gamers will have never used or maybe even heard of brands like Quadro or FirePro; instead names like GeForce and Radeon permeate through the air during our graphics card reviews. But make no mistake, to both NVIDIA and AMD, these higher end brands that constitute the workstation class graphics market are as critical, if [...]

Sapphire company introduced the FireStream 9270 graphics card dedicated to people dealing with a professional image processing. On the laminate contains a slightly modified chip known for its Radeon HD 4870, 2 GB of GDDR5 memory operating at a frequency of 850 MHz (3,400 MHz effective) and 800 stream processors to provide performance at 1.2 [...]