ATI introduces new series of FireGL Workstation graphics boards
It’s SIGGRAPH 2007 time and AMD’s using this conference as the stage for launching five new ATI FireGL workstation graphics accelerators. The five new boards are the ATI FireGL V8650, the FireGL V8600, the FireGL V7600, the FireGL V5600, and the FireGL V3600. All of these boards include the next generation ATI GPU with a unified shader architecture featuring up to 320 individual stream processing units. ATI claims that the new boards produce performance enhancements up to 300 percent over previous generation boards.
Here are some of the key new features of these workstation class graphics accelerators:
- Industry first 2GB of on-board memory
- ATI FireGL unified shader architecture
- AMD AutoDetect feature automatically optimizes the graphics driver based on the user’s specific software applications – even when running multiple applications simultaneously
- Powered by scaleable ATI FireGL GPU with parallel processing unified shader architecture
- 2 dual link DVI-I outputs
- HDR rendering with 8-bit, 10 bit and 16-bit per RGB color component support
- Full Shader Model 4.0 support for vertex and pixel shaders
- Stereoscopic 3D output connector with quad buffer support
- CAD and DCC application certification
- 128 bit full floating point precision
- Drive four 3D displays with multi-card support
Here are the prices to the new boards:
ATI FireGL V8650 with 2GB of memory – $2799
ATI FireGL V8600 with 1GB of memory – $1899
ATI FireGL V7600 with 512MB of memory – $999
ATI FireGL V5600 with 512MB of memory – $599
ATI FireGL V3600 with 256MB of memory – $299
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