Reference Board Examination
It's no surprise to see the FireGL V7350 look much like a Radeon X1800.
Sharing the same cooler assembly as Radeon X1800 XT, X1900 XT and X1900 XTX, FireGL V73xx boards won't be the quietest component added to a modern workstation system. That said, preliminary testing shows that, due to how the GPU is used by many workstation-class applications, the thermally-controlled fan rarely spins up to maximum speed.
With the cooler off you can see the GPU and half of the DRAMs that make up the 1024MiB total. Eight on the front of the PCB and eight on the back, the 512Mib Samsung GDDR3 DRAMs (K4J52324QC, BJ12 variant) are rated to 800MHz, but clocked modestly for their spec at 650MHz.
Strangely, the board also implements a pair of Silicon Image Sil178 DVI-I transmitters. Both support dual-link output, but then so do the pair of on-GPU transmitters. ATI claim HDCP output support, but since the Sil178 doesn't support it and no other peripheral ASICs appear on the PCB to do output encryption, it doesn't appear to be the case.
The genlock daughter board plugs in to the connector shown above. Available separately for an undisclosed price, the $1999 V7350 needs an extra outlay to make it suitable for applications and system that require genlock. The same is true of NVIDIA's G-sync add-on for their Quadro FX 4500.
