http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/ Engadget Comments for ATI's 1GB FirePro V7750 GPU pushes serious pixels for pros http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
Yuk yuk.]]>Mar 27th 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
it cant be hard apple, and i am sure that you lose many 3d animators for it



]]>Mar 27th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
you can go on an on about cinema4d but whatever MAYA is the industry standard, and even my apple fanboi friends avoid using Macs.

I don't think its apple's fault...more like autodesk.]]>Mar 27th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
You need to view the internet with your sarcasm glasses on.

@Skeezle
Did I say something wrong? Hmm? Or did your rich ass company buy this card for you?]]>Mar 27th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/GDDR5 would be too much expensive for this card]]>Mar 27th 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Besides the nice bios you also need the proper drivers for support to make these things work. Put that together and the fact that an engineer doesnt bother playing with the software but gets paid by the hour are these cards in general cheap.
And as stated above, yes an architect who in general works in 2d-space with little polygons a good gaming card would suit them. Yet the serious modelers or constructional engineers who like to see their parts in 3d to see how it fits together benefit from this. To put things in prospective an engineer makes 65 euro per hour and works 200 days a year, which costs a total of around 100.000 euro. If he can only work 2% faster with his card, it´s already a winning situation.]]>Mar 27th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
I'm going to try out a 4870 before I commit to one of these more costly cards in my next workstation, especially if the performance gain is not as noticable. I could get an SSD in PCIe with the change. As you suggest, it's possible a solids modelers would benefit, such as users of SolidWorks or something, but a ton of people went the pro card route and found they were disappointed. Just so you know...]]>Mar 27th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Take it easy dude... anyways i'm still waiting for the day I can run Pro-E + 3Dstudio Max from OSX off a remote server alla OnLive.com.... ]]>Mar 27th 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/good choice~

but firepro is professional edition of 4870X2..i think.]]>Mar 27th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
On another note, I find it humorous that these cards work best in Windows when Macs are considered by some as "graphics" machines.

After working with Vicon, Maya and MotionBuilder for the last 10 years using these types of cards, I can honestly say that if you want to produce professional 3D content, you need to use Windows (you can use linux/unix in some situations). I have never ever had to ask the question "Does this work on Windows?" I already know the answer -- it works and it works very nicely on high end hardware :)]]>Mar 27th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
And then (2 years from now) they will charge you double for what the card is going for now (present day).

Ya...no crap, a new old card is better then your old old card...but how does it preform to the highest end PC card?


Apple has some shady marketing techniques sometimes....

I would actually rather have an "unstable" mac with the latest and greatest, then buy a year outdated machine at a premium.

woah....i just got myself dizzy with all that time travel]]>Mar 27th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
It does have an onboard video codec decoder/encoder...so if the app can take advantage of it...it will go faster. Also many of them have 4 DACs (rather then gaming cards with 2) so you can make an array of 4 monitors.


Ive done plenty of 3d modeling on high end "gaming" graphics cards...they run great. I've also don't 3d modeling on Quattro 3d modeling graphics cards....didn't notice a difference, they both ran good.]]>Mar 27th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
The pro line cards can output the same (and often more) number of shapes, but they are more concerned about the quality of the output.]]>Mar 27th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
What part of THIS-WOULD-MAKE-ONE-BADASS-GAMING-CARD don't you understand?]]>Mar 27th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 30th 2009 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-firepro-v8700,2154.html


gamer cards =/= workstation cards]]>Mar 27th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/Mar 27th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/for that price you could have 2-4870x2 with 2GBs of ram each in CrossFire for a total of 4GBs
wouldnt that render faster than one FirePro with 320 streaming processors?
2-4870x2 would equal (1600 (800 x 2) Stream Processing Units per card) 3200 streaming processors!
+ it would have GDDR5 so it would be a faster rendering system than one of these.]]>Mar 27th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/atis-1gb-firepro-v7750-gpu-pushes-serious-pixels-for-pros/
A middle-school level tech spec writing class would require dimensions as a bare minimum. It's found nowhere in any data sheets for any products.

It's not like this is top secret info. It's useful only for people wondering whether it fits in their case. In my mind it's indicative of the mindset of these companies - they tell you want they want to say, not what you need to know.

The rule for GPU's seems to be "baffle 'em with bullshit if you can't dazzle 'em with your brilliance."]]>Apr 1st 2009 5:59PM