AMD's FirePro family of graphics cards for the Professional/Workstation
user has just seen a new addition today with the launch of the FirePro
V3900 which replaces the V3800. AMD promises best-in-class workstation
experiences at an entry level price point with this card - that being
£95 at select online resellers.
Compared to the V3800, the V3900 gets double the memory at 1GB and uses a
GPU derived from the 6800 family of Radeon cards, dubbed "TURKS". The
card's 128-bit DDR3 memory arrangement gives it 28.8GB/s of memory
bandwidth compared to the V3800 which had a 64-bit interface providing
half the bandwidth at 14.4GB/s.
AMD has claimed through the means of several presentation slides that
its V3900 outperforms both the Quadro 400 and V3800 in a wide range of
tests. The V3800 sells at just
£75, but for a mere
£20 difference it's
expected that this price point is well validated in line of its
performance increase.
AMD will ship the V3900 with both a full and half-height bracket to
allow it to be installed in small form factor systems. The card will
also be showing up in several systems from HP with ISV certification
from Fujitsu-Siemens to follow in the spring.
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