AMD has just announced the obvious step of refreshing the entire FirePro line of graphics cards with their newest Evergreen-based chip, that brings DX11, OpenGL3.2 & 4, and Eyefinity support to the entire line. Tony DeYoung of FireUser.com has a great chart detailing the new cards.
Obvious standouts to me: Faster memory, more memory (think VBO performance), huge increases in number of stream processors (a.k.a shader units), and Eyefinity support on all but the V3800. What I would like to also know is energy consumption in idle mode as well as some noise comparison to previous models. I know the V8800 was significantly better in both regards to its predecessor.
Sadly, it looks like none of them support the full 6-screen Eyefinity configuration, and only the highest-end (V8800) supports 4 displays. None of them support 3 displays.
Update 2:15pm: I was just contacted by AMD to state that all of the cards, except the lowest-end V3800k, support 3 displays. I’m currently uncertain of how (if it’s even true), as all of them (except the V8800) only have 2 Displayport connectors. Unless you can connect the DVI & both displayports at the same time (which seems unlikely to me)….
