AMD FireMV

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AMD FireMV, formerly ATI FireMV, is brand name for graphics cards marketed as a multi-display 2D video card, with 3D capabilities same as the low-end Radeon graphics products. It competes directly with Matrox professional video cards. FireMV cards aims at the corporate environment who require several displays attached to a single computer. FireMV cards has options of dual GPU, a total of four display output via a VHDCI connector, or single GPU, a total of two display output via a DMS-59 connector.

FireMV cards are available for PCI and PCI Express interfaces.

Although these are marketed by ATI as mainly 2D cards, the FireMV 2250 cards support OpenGL 2.0 since it is based on the RV516 GPU found in the Radeon X1000 series released 2005.{{cite web|quote=" ATI FireMV 2250, RV516 ,719B " |url=http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/ATI_Device_IDs_Jan_09.txt |title=ATI Device IDs |publisher=AMD |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804041517/http://developer.amd.com/gpu_assets/ATI_Device_IDs_Jan_09.txt |archivedate=2011-08-04 }}{{cite web|url=http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon|title=ATIRadeon|publisher=freedesktop.org|access-date=2011-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809041859/http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon|archive-date=2007-08-09|url-status=dead}}

The FireMV 2260 is the first video card to carry dual DisplayPort output in the workstation 2D graphics market, sporting DirectX 10.1 support.[https://www.amd.com/Documents/ATI_FireMV_2260_Data_Sheet.pdf FireMV 2260 brochure]: "Also with Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support the ATI FireMV 2260 exceeds all of the Windows Vista Aero minimum requirements". Retrieved July 12, 2008

Chipset table

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FireMV 2260 {{Clear}} Multi-View

! FireMV 2270 {{Clear}} Multi-View

! FireMV 2450 {{Clear}} Multi-View

! FireMV 2460 {{Clear}} Multi-View

Display outputsdual DisplayPortdual DisplayPort, DVI, VGAQuad DVI and VGAquad DisplayPort and quad DVI
Display connections2 × DisplayPortDMS-592 × VHDCI4 × Mini DisplayPort
Graphics memory256MiB512MiB or 1GiB512MiB512MiB
Max. resolution2560×16002560×16001920×12002560×1600

See also

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