SIGGRAPH 2007: FireGL V5600 pictured

Friday 10th August 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Rys

Our spies on the SIGGRAPH show floor have spotted the rear end of an AMD FireGL V5600. Hark back to the very recent launch announcement at the same show and you'll remember the V5600 sounded like a clone of a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MiB. How right that is. FireGL first.



Look familiar? Ah yes!



You can see in the shot of the FireGL V5600 that the rear of the board has DRAM devices -- Samsung GDDR4 K4U52324QE-BC09s rated to 1100MHz -- unlike the Radeon HD 2600 XT we reviewed recently. That confirms the 512MiB on the V5600, and AMD run the devices at the rated speed.

Obligatory press shots of the V5600 and V7600 follow, fresh from AMD's booth at SIGGRAPH.





The reason for the picture?  There was some minor whispering before SIGGRAPH that AMD might have finished the first FireGL boards that carry their new generation of GPUs so recently that they wouldn't make it to the show floor.

amd ± firegl, v5600, pictured

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