Jon Peddie reviews FirePro V9800 - standouts: Eyefintiy, Open Standards 3D, OpenCL and DX11

Jon Peddie Research reviews the FirePro V9800.

What do they think in a nutshell?  The board has an edge over the competition because of Eyefinity, DX11 & DirectCompute support, open standards 3D,  and OpenCL support.

From the article:

“AMD ... believes that its Eyefinity multi-monitor technology is going to cause even dedicated Nvidia-philes to take a look and is banking on its strategy of openness to give it a boost. ... their stereographic 3D technology will work with a variety of systems and 120/240 Hz monitors. In other words, they’re not promoting a proprietary solution like Nvidia does. Rather, they’ll work with vendors to create a system and so there may be different options for glasses and monitors.”

“AMD is also banking on DirectX 11 DirectCompute and OpenCL. DirectCompute is an open technology as long as you’re on Windows and OpenCL competes with Nvidia’s CUDA as an open technology to provide access to GPU processors.”