Diamond's 2GB VFX 2000 Series Pro Graphics Card

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, August 30, 2007, 02:00 PM EDT

We just got our hands on a few intriguing images that we thought you’d all be interested in checking out. What you see pictured below is Diamond Multimedia’s VFX 2000 Series Professional Workstation graphics card, due to be launched in the coming weeks...

Diamond Multimedia’s 2GB VFX 2000 Series Professional Workstation Graphics Card

The Diamond VFX 2000 is based on AMD’s ATI R600 GPU, but the card’s PCB has been modified from the standard HD 2900 XT reference design to support the workstation-class features inherent to the FireGL line of professional graphics cards. Due to issues stemming from the RIAA’s lawsuit against Diamond and their MP3 Rio a few years, Diamond can’t call these cards FireGLs, but they are fundamentally the same. Diamond Multimedia were actually the creators of the FireGL brand, but the company had to liquidate assets to pay their legal fees back then and unfortunately they are no longer able to use the brand.

We don’t know what frequencies the GPU and RAM will operate at, but as you can see from the artwork, cards are equipped with 2GB of GDDR4 memory. They’ll likely be most similar to ATI’s high-end FireGL V8650, however. Details regarding the V8650 can be found here .

Update: We should note that ATI is the exclusive seller of their workstation line of graphics products, ATI FireGL from AMD, and has no plans to bring on AIB partners for this line of products.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com