AMD FirePro V9800 Has Eyefinity 6, Costs $3,499

[schmich]

What's that round plug?

 

[Honis]

[citation][nom]schmich[/nom]What's that round plug?[/citation]
S-Video I think... It may be an access port for a dongle though.

 

[thechief73]

A very serious piece of hardware AMD has there. But.. I never understood the idea of three or six monitors besides for in the business world. Maybe Im missing something since I've never seen either setup done befor in person. It just seems to me that the monitor bezel would be an annoyance and instead on 3or6 x ~$200 + ActiveDP adapter or you can just buy a TV and use that. IDK maybe im wrong and havent seen the light of eyefinity yet.

 

[JamesSneed]

@thechief73, so in a round about way you are saying you get why they have included Eyefinity in a professional i.e. business card like the FirePro V9800? I would venture a guess that their are very few home users buying professional 3D software packages and a 5-10K workstation with a card like the V9800 just for the hell of it.

 

[Guest]

@Honis and schmich

VR/3D goggles

 

[dalethepcman]

[citation][nom]thechief73[/nom]A very serious piece of hardware AMD has there. But.. I never understood the idea of three or six monitors besides for in the business world. Maybe Im missing something since I've never seen either setup done befor in person. It just seems to me that the monitor bezel would be an annoyance and instead on 3or6 x ~$200 + ActiveDP adapter or you can just buy a TV and use that. IDK maybe im wrong and havent seen the light of eyefinity yet.[/citation]

You have can have a maximum resolution of 1920X1080 on most TV'a, on eyefinity 6X using professional quality monitors you could have 5120X4800 Its all in the detail. This is where the draw of this setup is

 

[lradunovic77]

I don't understand a price of $3500 for same crap as HD5870. Another scam.

 

[falchard]

I don't understand the costs. The FirePro 8800 is less then half the price of this for only doubling the memory. It does not seem worth it. BTW, everything in business is about price if the business was run intelligently. Why buy a Quadro version of the GTX480 when you are using Maya and the FirePro 8800 performs the same in Maya for 1/4th the price? It just does not make any sense to go that route.

 

[arfrxz]

I want one!

 

[Guest]

@falchard

guess you never tried loading a large CAD assembly or a very complex 3D scene, there is a limit beyond which the application will just eat up all your physical RAM, some of this is to handle display, more VRAM will mean you can offload more directly to the gfx card and thus allow you to handle more complex scenes/larger CAD assemblies

If you dont know why you need the card then you dont need it, but there are those who do need it

 

[thechief73]

[citation][nom]JamesSneed[/nom]@thechief73, so in a round about way you are saying you get why they have included Eyefinity in a professional i.e. business card like the FirePro V9800? I would venture a guess that their are very few home users buying professional 3D software packages and a 5-10K workstation with a card like the V9800 just for the hell of it.[/citation]

Sorry but you took what I wrote and it seems many others have completly wrong way, since I've been down-voted so many times(really getting annoying that people use that just because they dissagree or lack uderstanding).

What I was saying is that eyefinity makes sense to me in the business world but for a home user it dosen't seem very practical. Nowhere do I say that some average joe is going out and buying this card because I know they arnt, and FYI AMD has many consumer grade cards that do eyefinity and that is what I am refering to in general, not to this specific card or a business users, just the home user with consumer products.

 

[thechief73]

[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]You have can have a maximum resolution of 1920X1080 on most TV'a, on eyefinity 6X using professional quality monitors you could have 5120X4800 Its all in the detail. This is where the draw of this setup is[/citation]

Now that does make some more sence to me, and now I understand where the advantge of an eyefinitysetup is.

Thank you for being polite and giving an explaination rather than just attacking me under false pretenses.

 

[dEAne]

wow look at the prize.

 

[mrmotion]

[citation][nom]nevertell[/nom]I'd rather reflash a 4gb 5970.[/citation]
Bad idea chief. Then they cant do custom support for you. With the quadros you can get custom drivers for certain programs, I would assume this would be the same with the firepro's. Happy with my real Quadro!

 

[rd350]

6 screen crysis.....QQ......kidding bet my dad could use one of these for his research lab now only if i could save so much for his birthday.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]rd350[/nom]6 screen crysis.....[/citation]
Good idea, 6 screen Crysis at 5040 x 2100, get around 10FPS
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24023&page=6
It would be unplayable at that speed

 

[coggsman]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]S-Video I think... It may be an access port for a dongle though.[/citation]


Looks like it could be the 3 pin Din connector for the 3D Support. Found this on AMD website.


"3D Stereoscopic Support
Effortlessly work in stereo with support for 3-pin active sync stereoscopic glasses."

 

[slimbones]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]... It may be an access port for a dongle though.[/citation]

That's what she said!

 

[zowryo]

I want this at home lol err I mean pair of this

 

[dextermat]

For the bang for bucks, at that point at least, it sucks!!!

 

[obiown77]

but will it play Crysis??? Times 6!!!!

 

[Guest]

can i play runescape with this or will it be too laggy