AMD unveils the ATI FirePro V5700 and V3700 cards

AMD has now introduced a new family of professional graphics cards, the ATI FirePro and to give it a proper debut it has also released the first two cards to bear its name. Targeting CAD and DCC professionals, the FirePro V5700 and V3700 are powered by 55nm GPUs, have DirectX 10.1 support, PCI-Express 2.0 interfaces and feature 30-bit display engines which can produce more than one billion colors at any given time.

"Following the ATI acquisition, AMD increased its investment in the professional graphics business and now delivers professional graphics accelerators that perform better than the competition at every price point. The new ATI FirePro brand communicates this focus on performance and features that matter to engineers and designers," said Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics. "ATI has been known for delivering value-priced solutions for CAD and DCC professionals. The product reviews over the past year have validated the fact that ATI offers outstanding application performance as well."

Equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, the lower-end V3700 has 40 Stream Processors and dual-DVI connectivity while the V5700 can brag with double the amount of on-board memory, 320 Stream Processors and with one DVI and two DisplayPort connectors. Priced at $99, the FirePro V3700 is already shipping with the $599 V5700 being expected to arrive next month.

ATI FirePro V3700

ATI FirePro V5700