AMD released a pair of workstation cards over the weekend, the FirePro V3800 and the FirePro V5800.  The V5800 uses the same GPU as the HD5770 , a Juniper XT GPU, and it sports 1GB of GDDR5.  That is enough power to drive a trio of displays via a pair of DisplayPort plugs and a single DVI out.  The V3800 is a little less powerful, based off of the Redwood Pro GPU used in the HD5570 and will only support a pair of displays.  Both performed well under Linux at Phoronix, offering decent graphical power for those that can’t afford the top of the line V8800 that has been available for a few weeks now.

For a more Windows-centric review, read Ryan’s full article here.


“Earlier this month we reviewed the brand new ATI FirePro V8800 graphics card, which was AMD’s first workstation graphics card based upon the Evergreen GPU refresh (derived from the consumer -grade Radeon HD 5000 series ASICs), and it was a magnificent performer. The FirePro V8800 played well with AMD’s proprietary Linux driver and the OpenGL performance was terrific with sizable gains compared to AMD’s previous ultra high-end workstation graphics card, the FirePro V8750, that was launched last year. The FirePro V8800 also introduced Eyefinity support and other features to the AMD workstation world. This morning AMD is expanding their selection of new FirePro products based upon the Evergreen architecture with the introduction of the FirePro V3800 and FirePro V5800, which are to address the entry-level and mid-range workstation segments, respectively. We have been testing out these new AMD FirePro graphics cards over the past week and have the Linux benchmarks to share.”

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