AMD intros ATI FireGL workstation accelerators

CHIP FIRM AMD said it has introduced five FireGL graphics accelerators aimed at the medical imaging market and at CAD workstations.

That's computer aided design.

The V8650, V8600, V7600, V5600 and V3600 boards can use up to 320 individual stream processing units.

Features include 2GB on memory on the cards, and AMD-ATI claims the V5600 gives over 300 per cent the performance of the V5200 using the Viewperf 9.0.3 UGS Teamcentre Visualisation mockup benchmark test.

Prices are not cheap - these are workstation boards, and cost $2,800, $1,900, $1,000, $600 and $300 respectively with memory sizes 2GB, 1GB, 512MB, 512MB and 256MB in turn. µ

* THERE'S A REVIEW of this range, which gets rave reviews, at 3D Professor.