AMD releases two professional graphics cards.

<div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">AMD has just announced a couple of new graphics cards designed to help professional users boost their productivity by delivering support for multiple high-resolution monitors.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The 512MB FirePro 2270 is an entry level solution that's all about flexibility. The DMS-59 connector on the rear of the card can support DVI, Display Port and VGA outputs, and is capable of driving up to two 30in monitors at a time. The card also has a single-slot, low-profile design, passive cooling and a maximum TDP of 15W, meaning that it should fit into almost any existing PC.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In addition, AMD is going to ship the board in PCIe x1 and PCIe x16 flavours to fit different users' needs.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://img.hexus.net/v2/pmason/amd/firepro/2270-2.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>AMD<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> FirePro 2270</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">While the 2270 should be more than enough for the vast majority of professionals working across a multi-screen workstation, the company is also launching the 1GB V5800 DVI for those in need of a little more horsepower. The GPU is ostensibly the same as the already-available V5800, except that it replaces the Display Port outputs with two dual-link DVI ports, allowing users to run two 30in, 5MP displays simultaneously.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://img.hexus.net/v2/pmason/amd/firepro/v5800-2.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>AMD FirePro <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">V5800</span></i></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The card is full-height, but still comes with a single-slot cooler and won't draw more than 75W under load. It also features full 30-bit display pipelines and support for CrossFire Pro.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Both GPUs are built around the Evergreen/Radeon HD 5000 architecture, so they also get the benefit of DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 support. The V5800 is based on the 800 core Juniper/HD 5700-series GPUs, while the 2270 appears to use the 80 core Cedar/HD 5400 chip, although detailed specs of the latter aren't listed.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The new cards should be available immediately, with the 2270 shipping for around $150 (£115 inc VAT) and the V5800 costing $469 (£365 inc VAT).</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Source <a href="http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=28795">here</a>.</div>

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