Exclusive – Introducing ATI FirePro™ V9800

Over these last 6 months we have exclusively looked into some of the worlds most astounding technical accomplishments in the professional graphics market place from both ATI and Nvidia.  Each card has its own merits and place, depending upon the end-users budget.

We have completed the new Quadro Fermi range from Nvidia – quite something else to say the least.  Finally the last in this series from ATI, the new mighty 4GB FirePro V9800 hits the beach.  Naughty, naughty, beach.   This is a very interesting configured professional workstation graphics card which will catch many by surprise upon its cost and performance – most important its actual versatility.

We looked at the FirePro V8800 on its launch back in April and it took everyone by shock at its performance and capabilities making it one of the most powerful cards on the market place from ATI.    After a further 6 months careful research and development today we delve into the new FirePro V9800 and see what it has to offer.  Seed cards have been over these last 2 months have been used by many key influential companies to mark its performance and the case studies reports have been promising as we see from these 2 quotes;

“The ability to drive six display outputs simultaneously and achieve such a large image on a very high resolution display is a great step forward for engineering collaboration. Sharing a 3D model at full scale and achieving a significant cost reduction at the same time sounds like a dream, yet it is a reality. It is clear that the ATI FirePro™ V9800 professional graphics card has delivered the high level of technology that Dassault Systèmes has come to expect.” Jerome Maillot, Senior Manager Dassault Systèmes

“On board GPU memory is critical and this is just one area where the V9800 scores. Studios need high quality high resolution textures to be able to get cinematic quality results and with the 4 GB V9800 this will be much faster and much easier.” Yoni Koenig, Chief Scientist, Studio GPU

The most significant advancement of the ATI FirePro V9800 is that of the multi display support.  Up to 6 monitors can be supported up to a resolution of Maximum Resolution of 2560×1600 @ 60Hz.   This means a dramatic increase in display density and visualization capability for markets from medical imaging to DCC, CAD and digital signage.  (More information click on the URL)