AMD is promising workstation graphics professionals a 300 per cent improvement in performance compared with previous 3D products following the introduction of five graphics accelerators.
The graphics processing units (GPUs) are targeted at CAD, DCC and medical imaging professionals and come with a new unified shader architecture featuring up to 320 individual stream processing units. The boards that are based on the new GPUs are the ATI FireGL V8650, V8600, V7600, V5600 and V3600. They are being touted as the first to sport 2GB of onboard memory.
ATI has claimed that when running DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1-based professional applications, the cards are 300 per cent faster than the previous professional ATI products.
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The graphics processing units (GPUs) are targeted at CAD, DCC and medical imaging professionals and come with a new unified shader architecture featuring up to 320 individual stream processing units. The boards that are based on the new GPUs are the ATI FireGL V8650, V8600, V7600, V5600 and V3600. They are being touted as the first to sport 2GB of onboard memory.
ATI has claimed that when running DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1-based professional applications, the cards are 300 per cent faster than the previous professional ATI products.
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Final rendering in the majority of 3D Software apps is done exclusively on the CPU. The GPU plays no part in the final rendering of a scene or sequence of scenes (video). The GPU just handles the non rendered geometry in the application window; the scene you are working on. Where as with games the graphics card does the majority of the rendering. In short workstation cards aren't design to render on the fly, so they tend to be crap in games despite them being almost identical to their consumer grade counterparts.
Last edited by Dorza on 20 Aug 2007 - 15:16
Aren't these based off their gaming 2x000 cards though? The same way Nvidia does it with the Quadros?
How about delivering some actually product AMD/ATI.
300% faster? Yeah, I'm sure.
Show us the products or shut up AMD. =/
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