Sapphire Technology today announced it is advancing application performancewith stunning imagery through the introduction of the first commerciallyavailable 3D workstation graphics card with DisplayPort support. The ATI FireGL™V7700 professional graphics accelerator provides superior rendering speed, 3Dperformance and color fidelity for Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital ContentCreation (DCC) and Medical Imaging professionals. ATI FireGL V7700 delivers thetop-quality image quality needed to create photorealistic visualizations ofreal-world objects and environments —like the design concept for a new aircraftor a home remodel—by providing designers with The Ultimate Visual Experience™.
“Imaging and 3D professionals require innovative, high-performance solutionsand are increasingly turning to AMD to meet their real-world needs. The ATIFireGL™ family of workstation graphics accelerators is designed to delivervisible advantages and performance leadership at every price point, from entrylevel to ultra-high end,” said Janet Matsuda, senior director of ProfessionalGraphics at AMD. “This accelerator with DisplayPort support is the latestexample of AMD’s leadership in delivering new graphics technologies ahead of thecompetition.”
“The balanced power of the ATI FireGL product line has the accuracy and speedneeded for medical imaging applications like mammography screening,” said AlbertXthona, product manager for Digital Mammography at Barco. “For example,Mammography viewing uses 10-bit precision to help deliver the most informationto the eye of the radiologist, and increasingly other medical applications willrely on 10-bit gray and 30-bit color rendering. With the additional speedoffered by the PCI Express 2.0 interface, very large data sets are handledsmoothly, saving time for busy medical staff.”
The new ATI FireGL V7700 workstation graphics accelerator with DisplayPortsupport brings The Ultimate Visual Experience to life. The card features a10-bit display engine that can produce more than one billion colors at any giventime, delivering unprecedented image fidelity at a lower cost.
“Our customers are eager to adopt the latest standards like DisplayPort and PCIExpress 2.0 that make their environments more productive while deliveringnext-generation display capabilities today,” said Peter Chen, president, ExxactCorporation. “As an exceptional innovator and promoter of industry standards, itcomes as no surprise to learn that AMD is the first to deliver a graphics cardwith DisplayPort support. Like most AMD innovations, we plan to implement thesolution in earnest.”
Price Performance Leadership
The ATI FireGL V7700 supports emerging technologies while being optimized towork with today’s existing technologies. ATI FireGL accelerators are engineeredto deliver continued innovation and reliability for a wide range of professionaloperating environments, including Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows Vista® andLinux®. The unified driver, which supports all ATI FireGL workstation products,helps reduce the total cost of ownership by simplifying installation, deploymentand maintenance. Additional noteworthy features include:
• 512MB of memory: Enabling effortless real-time interaction with largedatasets and complex models and scenes.
• Dual Link DVI Output: The combination of DisplayPort output and a Dual Linkenabled DVI output, generates a multi-monitor desktop over 5000 pixels wide froma single accelerator. With native multi-card support, users can see more and domore using four displays driven by two ATI FireGL products in the sameworkstation.
• Application Certification: The ATI FireGL workstation graphics acceleratorsare thoroughly tested and certified with major CAD and DCC applications, helpingensure reliability and stability.
• AutoDetect: Based on a new generation GPU with 320 unified shader units, theATI FireGL V7700 maximizes throughput by automatically directing graphicshorsepower where it’s needed most. Intelligent management of computationalresources enables enhanced utilization of the GPU delivering real-time renderingof complex models and scenes while increasing frame rates.
The ATI FireGL V7700 3D workstation graphics accelerator card is expected tobegin shipping in April 2008.
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