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images/news/amd.jpgATI was the first GPU Company with a GP-GPU product on the market - codenamed FireStream, these cards were later renamed to AMD Stream Processor.
This was just a stop gap, since AMD is now coming to market with R600-based boards, some of which have shipped to partners inside AMD's Close-to-the-metal programme.
A first look at AMD's card shows the huge plastic block is covering the heatpipe cooling from the original HD2900XT card, with no fans or plastic different casing. Bear in mind that this design is oriented towards being in a rack chassis, so the only goal of design is to have as much heatsink exposure to the stream of air coming from fans mounted in front of the card.
AMD's FireStream sports passive cooling
This was just a stop gap, since AMD is now coming to market with R600-based boards, some of which have shipped to partners inside AMD's Close-to-the-metal programme.
A first look at AMD's card shows the huge plastic block is covering the heatpipe cooling from the original HD2900XT card, with no fans or plastic different casing. Bear in mind that this design is oriented towards being in a rack chassis, so the only goal of design is to have as much heatsink exposure to the stream of air coming from fans mounted in front of the card.
AMD's FireStream sports passive cooling
