Tuesday, 1. April 2008
AMD Announces 3D Workstation Graphics Card
AMD has announced it is advancing application performance with “stunning imagery” through the introduction of the first commercially available 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support. The ATI FireGL V7700 professional graphics accelerator claims to provide superior rendering speed, 3D performance and color fidelity for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC) and Medical Imaging professionals.
“The balanced power of the ATI FireGL product line has the accuracy and speed needed for medical imaging applications like mammography screening,” said Albert Xthona, product manager for Digital Mammography at Barco. “For example, Mammography viewing uses 10-bit precision to help deliver the most information to the eye of the radiologist, and increasingly other medical applications will rely on 10-bit gray and 30-bit color rendering.”
The new ATI FireGL V7700 workstation graphics accelerator with DisplayPort support features a 10-bit display engine that can produce more than one billion colors at any given time, claims the company.
ATI FireGL accelerators are engineered to work with a wide range of professional operating environments, including Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux. The unified driver, which supports all ATI FireGL workstation products, helps reduce the total cost of ownership by simplifying installation, deployment and maintenance.
Additional features include:
- 512MB of memory enabling real-time interaction with large datasets and complex models and scenes
- Dual Link DVI Output, which in combination with DisplayPort output generates a multi-monitor desktop over 5000 pixels wide from a single accelerator
- Application Certification, with major CAD and DCC applications
- AutoDetect
The ATI FireGL V7700 3D workstation graphics accelerator card is expected to begin shipping in April 2008 and will be available from system integrators and AMD channel partners worldwide. The MSRP is USD 1,099.