AMD Introduces $1,800 ATI FirePro V8750
It's for professionals.
Yes, it's a $1,800 GPU, and it's for serious business. AMD today announced the ATI FirePro V8750 3D high-end professional graphics hardware for CAD, Digital Content Creation (DCC) and oil and gas professionals.
Of all professional GPUs today, AMD claims that the ATI FirePro V8750 3D has the highest number of shader engines (800) with the highest memory bandwidth (115.2 GB/s).
The video card features 2 GB of GDDR5 frame buffer memory, two DisplayPort outputs, one Dual Link enabled DVI output and one Stereo sync output.
AMD is also bringing out ATI CrossFire Pro technology to the professional like, which, like the Crossfire we already know, enables users to combine two discrete graphics cards to scale their application performance. ATI CrossFire Pro is also planned for the FirePro V5700, FirePro V7750 and FirePro V8700. Currently, only Windows XP is supported, but AMD said there are plans for other operating systems to follow in the second half of 2009.
Does a $1,800 graphics card sound like an insane price to pay? For a consumer card it is, but AMD believes that it's a bargain for those in the professional sector.
"Digital content creation and high end CAD users have been held hostage to high-priced solutions for advanced rendering," said Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics. "The ATI FirePro V8750 3D workstation graphics accelerator delivers unparalleled performance and two GB of frame buffer memory for less than $1,800 MSRP. Creative and engineering professionals can now afford the powerful graphics they deserve."

Do you really want AMD to "Crash and Burn"..??? I wonder what kind of crap Nvidia will produce without any competition to push them in their R&D... and what price would they be able to FORCE us to pay????
This is no GPU for gaming!!!
all the FireGl/Pros are just gaming cards with different bios, if the counterpart can run crysis or that one game you want than so can your 1.8k card.
You beat me to it. So it is a 4890.
Do you really want AMD to "Crash and Burn"..??? I wonder what kind of crap Nvidia will produce without any competition to push them in their R&D... and what price would they be able to FORCE us to pay????
Why the heck does anybody care about this card! We all know that Like the Tesla it will probably suck for games. Only good for developement. This is another stunt to get people excited about AMD, just like the $11600 TWKR sold on ebay. The person that bought that must feel so _________. (fill in the blank)
On top of that, who the heck HERE has 1800 bones to blow on such a card!?
I just want to see some cheap DX11 "HD5850 X2" cards? that support OpenCL.
I've heard of people flashing a consumer to a workstation before...
But what about flashing a workstation to a consumer BIOS in attempt for a small gaming performance gain? Some people have money to blow...
get out!
wow... some people are just total noobs. Its not for your gaming or mass loads of pr0n viewing(well maybe), its for WORKSTATIONS.