Product: ATI FirePro V8800 2GB GDR5 256 bit 2560 x 1600 @60Hz -- Part Number 100-505803 -- Weight: 1833 grams.

With the upcoming FirePro lineup with the Evergreen GPU architecture, AMD's FirePro tries to compete with nVidia and its Quadro line of products.

With FirePro V8800, AMD is now putting multi-display capability into their professional products, up to six displays at the same time are supported, and work in 2560x1600 on each of them

The FirePro V8800 2GB is the first single-GPU card in the world that can drive a 4K projector screen.

Design and Connections:

Looks a bit like the Radeon HD 5000 series, the rear of the card has a protective plate which acts like a small heatsink. The card also has a CrossfireX connection, two 6-pin PCIe power connections, 4x DisplayPort.

Conclusion:

It's clear that the new FirePro V8800 is an improvement and the frame buffer is 2GB nowadays. Applications like Maya and 3dstudio MAX were no problem for the new V8800. The Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 has an outdated almost two year old architecture with the new 8800 AMD has the clear performance lead. The reviewers gave it a gold award.

Compared To:

AMD FirePro V8700 1GB and the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 1.5GB.

Benchmarks:

Cinebench 10 and 11.5, SPECviewperf 10 and 3D Mark Vantage, Power consumption.

Test Setup:

CPU: Core i7-965 -- Motherboard: ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution -- Memory Corsair 6GB DDR3 PC12800 1333MHz -- HDD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB -- OS: W7 x64.

The V8800 is the workstation equivalent to the Radeon HD 5870 with 1600 shader and a GPUclock of 1150MHz.

Compared To:

ATI FirePro V8750 2GB and ATI Radeon HD 5970

Conclusion:

Being the market-leader with DX11 cards with the Radeon HD 5000 line-up, ATI/AMD probably gets this position the professional arena as well. the FirePro launches months before a competitive Nvidia Quadro card is even announced. In short: Cool and Quiet with a low power consumption with DX11 and Eyefinity, but with a price tag of US $ 1,500.- not a very cheap card.

Benchmarks:

Cinebench R11.5 x64, SPECViewperf R10, 3DMark Vantage x64, Unigine Heaven.

Test Setup:

Processor: Intel Core i7 980X -- Mainboard: EVGA Classified 760 -- Memory: 6x2GB DDR3 Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600MHz PC12800 -- SSD: Crucial M225 128GB -- OS: Win 7 x64.