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Advanced Technology Week in Review: April 4
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AMD accelerates 3D workstations
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3D stereographic imaging--popular for computer-aided design (CAD), medical imaging, 3D movies and games--has harnessed the capabilities of Advanced Micro Devices' latest graphics processor chipset on the ATI FireGL V7700 professional graphics accelerator card. Capable of creating photorealistic visualizations of real-world objects and environments on stereoscopic displays, the new accelerator is the first commercially available 3D workstation card to support DisplayPort--the latest digital display interface standard by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The FireGL V7700's DisplayPort offers twice the performance of older DVI interfaces, plus it supports micro-packet architecture, 10-bit color spaces that can render more than one billion colors, 2 Gbytes of memory, and it provides digital content protection. The display's AMD RV670 chip set can support 320 unified shaders--graphic rendering code that enables a fully programmable pipeline. Besides DisplayPort, the FireGL V7700 also supports dual-link DVI systems, enabling two displays to be set side-by-side to show a total of 5000-pixel-wide spread across two displays. AMD recommends the FireGL V7700 accelerator for graphics professionals using complex 3D models and large data-sets that must be rendered as photorealistic visualizations, such as for aircraft or architectural rendering.
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