AMD FirePro RG220 has Rambus memory

Posted on Wednesday, May 05 2010 @ 18:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Bright Side of News noticed Rambus makes its entry into the GPU market with the new ATI FirePro RG220 graphics card.

Enter FirePro RG200 [RG stands for Remote Graphics]. AMD's latest professional graphics card comes with quite an unique set of features, which include mixing the RV711 GPU [not the Evergreen DirectX 11 family], RealTek's 10/100/1000 3-Port Gigabit Switch, PLX PCIe Bridge chip and PCoIP Comp/Tx controller. Memory is from one side 512MB of GDDR memory for the GPU and yrs, RDRAM memory for the PC-over-IP controller.

In this way, RDRAM finally makes a debut on a graphics card, yet not in the way Rambus hoped/planned to be. Interestingly though, ATI and subsequently, AMD keep on innovating - AMD/ATI was the first company to put HDMI, DisplayPort, GDDR4, GDDR5, PC-Over-IP, and now - RDRAM memory on a graphics card.

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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