The AMD FirePro V7900 Graphics Card with SDI-Link is a professional graphics card for installation in workstation computers and servers with PCI Express expansion slots. It is geared toward digital content creation, CAD, 3D modeling, video editing, visualization, broadcast, and other media applications that require or benefit from the additional processing power a dedicated graphics card provides.
The GPU features 1280 stream processors, which not only function as shaders to render display graphics, they also expose parallel processing capability to compatible, GPU-aware applications often delivering better performance than the CPU alone can provide. To move data to and from the GPU as efficiently as possible, the card features 2GB of GDDR5 RAM over a 256-bit memory interface and has a memory bandwidth of 160 GB/s.
To simply multi-display setups, the card features four onboard DisplayPort outputs with DP 1.2 support. A set of four DisplayPort to DVI adapters are also included to help connect the card to a variety of devices, including computer monitors, projectors, and flat panel displays. In addition, a stereo bracket is included that features a mini-din connector for synchronizing certain types of active, professional 3D systems.
This version of the FirePro V7900 features SDI-Link. SDI-Link came as a response to the broadcast and post production industries' demand for real-time, computer-based conversion of SDI video. SDI-Link works by allowing compatible SDI I/O hardware to transport SDI video to and from the GPU directly across the PCI-E bus, without passing through any intermediate steps. This is designed to provide a much more efficient processing pipeline, allowing the parallel processing capabilities of the card to operate directly on the SDI video stream passing through it.