Do you still remember the AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card that we posted earlier this year? The company has recently announced the availability of this new graphics card. The AMD Radeon HD 6990 will be shipped on March 8, 2011. The Radeon HD 6990 features 3072 stream processors, a 4GB memory, dual-link DVI, four mini DisplaPort 1.2, and support for 4-GPU CrossFireX. This graphics card provides up to 6.0 TFLOPS of single precision and 1.5 TFLOPS of double precision, 307.2 GB/s bandwidth and TDP of 300W. [techPowerUp]
AMD has announced the availability of five new members of the AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor family for SMBs and enterprise segment. The Opteron 6132 HE is an 8-core chip with a clock frequency of 2.2GHz and TDP of 65W. The Opteron 6140 is also an 8-core chip but offers 2.6GHz core frequency and higher TDP of 80W. The Opteron 6166 HE, 6176, and 6180 SE are all 12-core processors, which have 65W TDP and 1.8GHz core speed, 80W TDP and 2.3GHz core speed, and 105W TDP and 2.5GHz core frequency, respectively. [PCLaunches]
AMD has recently unveiled the new AMD FirePro 2270 and ATI FirePro V5800 DVI professional graphics cards. Both graphics cards are designed for professionals in the medical, financial, design and engineering fields who require the ability to view and interact with multiple applications simultaneously. The AMD FirePro 2270 is an entry-level card that supports multi-display capabilities for increased efficiency, longevity and compatibility. This graphics card allows efficient multitasking across multiple applications, including graphics intensive applications, helping to prevent system slowdowns. The AMD FirePro 2270 also provides DisplayPort, DVI and VGA.
The ATI FirePro V5800 DVI is a high-end video card that offers professionals the graphics performance needed to drive two high-resolution dual link DVI displays while offering users the ability to stretch one image or application across both screens for expanded field of view and enhanced productivity. It delivers a full 30-bit display pipeline to enable increased color reproduction and superb visual fidelity and supports packed pixel mode to support dual 5MP medical displays. The AMD FirePro 2270 And V5800 DVI are priced at $149 and $469, respectively. Read more
Here are several leaked pictures of the new AMD Radeon HD 6990 dual-GPU graphics card. The Radeon HD 6990 features two 40nm Cayman GPUs, a total of 3072 stream processors and a 4096MB of memory between the two GPU systems. The device also has a new kind of display output that consists of one dual-link DVI and four mini-DP 1.2. The graphics card draws its power from one 6-pin and an 8-pin PCIe connector. Unfortunately, there is no info on pricing or availability so far. Stay tuned for more updates. Read more
AMD is ready to launch its new Radeon HD 6970 and 6950 GPUs in the third week of December 2010. Word has it that the nVidia GeForce GTX 580 has better performance than the AMD’s new Radeon HD 6970, therefore AMD is expected to price the Radeon HD 6970 US$50-70 less than the nVidia GeForce GTX 580 to cover the disadvantage. [Digitimes]
Here is sad news for gamers who are waiting for the latest AMD Radeon HD 6970 graphics card. The company has decided to delay the release date of this graphics card due to manufacturing problems.The new AMD Radeon HD 6900 graphics card will be launched on December 13, 2010, which is three weeks delay from original launch date of November 22nd, 2010. Stay tuned for more updates. [PCLaunches]
AMD has announced the availability of the Radeon HD 6850 and 6870 that will be available later this month. Both cards have almost the same size and come with two DVI ports, a mini-HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort. The Radeon HD 6850 card comes equipped with a single six-pin PCIe connector, meaning that its the power-draw is probably below 150W. Too bad, there is no further info about the specification of these new graphics cards. We will keep you posted. [CDRInfo]
The ATI FirePro V9800 is the most advanced ATI FirePro professional graphics solution ever created by AMD. Designed for professionals who work with the largest data sets and the most intensive 3D environments, this graphics card delivers the ultimate in computational power and performance and supports for up to six independent displays, ensuring that your creativity is never inhibited by a lack of work space. What’s more, the card also supports 1600 stream processors and super fast 4GB GDDR5 memory. The ATI FirePro V9800 is further optimized for stream calculations with full support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.0 and DirectCompute. [AMD]
AMD today unveiled the next-generation ATI FirePro professional graphics cards that adopt the ATI Eyefinity technology and support Microsoft DirectX11, OpenGL 4.0 and OpenCL. Newly introduced professional video cards include ATI FirePro V7800, ATI FirePro V5800, ATI FirePro V4800, and ATI FirePro V3800. AMD also announced the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View, a low profile, quad display graphics solution designed for financial institutions.
The high-end ATI FirePro V7800 features a 2GB of GDDR5 memory. Its massively parallel architecture can handle computationally or visually demanding applications without negatively impacting performance. The mid-range ATI FirePro V5800 has a 1GB of GDDR5 memory and supports for up to three independent displays through ATI Eyefinity technology.
The entry-level ATI FirePro V4800 has a 1GB of GDD5 memory and delivers 1.25X the performance capability compared to the previous generation with outstanding results for entry-level CAD users, all at value level pricing. Meanwhile, the ATI FirePro V3800 supports a 512MB of DDR3 memory and a 30-bit display pipeline that offers accurate color reproduction and exceptional visual quality. The last member from the new ATI FirePro GPUs is the ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View, which is a low profile, quad display graphics solution designed to improve the visual experience for financial traders. [PCLaunches]
AMD today unveiled its most recent graphics card in the form of the ATI FirePro V8800, which is perfect for users who work with large data sets or shader-intensive applications and who demand high-end computational power and the superior visual flexibility. The ATI FirePro V8800 supports hardware tessellation and other DirectX 11 (or OpenGL 4.0) features as the Radeon HD 5000 series, but with workstation-optimized hardware and software. The core is capable of handling 2.6 teraflops of computing power. In addition, the V8800 also has the same 1,600 stream (visual processing) cores as the Radeon HD 5870 and has the same 2GB of GDDR5 RAM as the Eyefinity 6 Edition board. The AMD ATI FirePro V8800 GPU is priced at $1,499. [AMD]
