AMD has launched a new card in its FirePro lineup of professional graphics cards, the ATI FirePro V8800. The new FirePro V8800 is the first professional graphics card base on the 40nm Cypress GPU.

The new FirePro V8800 card features full 1600 Stream processors and works at 825MHz for the GPU and 4600MHz for 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 256-bit memory interface. The rest of the features include a full 30-bit display pipeline, four DisplayPort outputs and support for DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0, OpenGL 4.0 and 3.2, OpenCL 1.0 as well as ATI's Crossfire Pro, FirePro S400 and Eyefinity support.

The card has a maximum power consumption rated at below 225W and it needs two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors.

The card is already available with a price tag of US $1,499 and have already been benched and previewed over at PCPerspective and HotHardware.