Sapphire Technology today raised the bar for Computer Aided Design (CAD) andDigital Content Creation (DCC) application performance with the announcement oftwo new professional graphics accelerators – ATI FirePro™ V5700 and ATI FirePro™V3700. As a part of that announcement, AMD also introduced a new brand for thecompany’s professional graphics accelerators, ATI FirePro™, reflecting AMD’scontinuing and evolving commitment to the professional graphics market.
“Following the ATI acquisition, AMD increased its investment in theprofessional graphics business and now delivers professional graphicsaccelerators that perform better than the competition at every price point. Thenew ATI FirePro brand communicates this focus on performance and features thatmatter to engineers and designers”, said Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMDProfessional Graphics. “ATI has been known for delivering value-priced solutionsfor CAD and DCC professionals. The product reviews over the past year havevalidated the fact that ATI offers outstanding application performance as well.”
According to the Worldwide CAD Market Report 2007-08 published by Jon PeddieResearch, in 2007 the installed base of CAD users grew to 5.31 million worldwide– a 20 percent increase from 2006. The firm’s analysts also predict the CADmarket will continue growth through 2008, with revenues projected to grow 15percent to $ 6,025.37 million and reach $ 8.1 billion by 2012.
“Historically, 3D technologies were expensive and used only by seniordesigners within a large manufacturer or architectural firm. As technologiesadvanced and prices dropped, 3D graphics for entry level CAD designers was nolonger a pipe dream but a necessity,” said Jon Peddie, president and founder ofJon Peddie Research. “Today’s entry- and mid-level CAD users need to create andrender more complex designs and models, and graphics accelerators from AMD candeliver the performance and reliability professionals need at a price where 3Dbecomes the rule, not the exception.”
Empowering Users with Features that Matter
The ATI FirePro™ V5700 graphics accelerator delivers the perfect balance ofprice and application performance for CAD and DCC professionals. With the newcard, users will experience increased performance for shader-intensiveapplications, up to two times more than the previous generation. ATI FireProV5700 also features 512MB of frame buffer memory, dual link DVI and Display Portconnections, and its true 30-bit display engine produces more than one billioncolors at any given timeempowering designers to see more of their data.Unified Video Decoder 2.0 provides full Blu-ray feature support includingdual-stream and picture in a picture (PIP) capabilities, and handles decoding ofvarious formats in the graphics processing unit (GPU), which helps free up theCPU to handle other tasks.
The ATI FirePro™ V3700 establishes a new, low entry price for professional 3Dgraphics. For CAD professionals migrating from 2D, the ATI FirePro™ V3700delivers the 3D performance and application certification professionals. The ATIFirePro™ V3700 graphics accelerator features 256 MB of frame buffer memory, twodual-link DVI connectors and VGA mode support on all display outlets.
Best In Class Features Across Products
The ATI FirePro™ V3700 and V5700 cards deliver the industry standard supportand features important to today’s CAD and DCC users, including Microsoft®DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL 2.0 support, PCI Express® 2.0 interface and ShaderModel 4.1.
“Our customers need high performance graphics hardware that is stable, reliableand compatible with eyeon Fusion and eyeon Generation to foster increasedcollaboration while enabling more complex work,” said Steve Roberts, ChiefExecutive Office, at eyeon Software Inc. “Based on our experiences with AMD, weare confident that ATI FirePro™ 3700 and 5700 can be utilized in uniqueclustering configurations to meet the specific needs of our visual effectscustomers and certainly those of the film industry overall. The recentenhancements to ATI’s FirePro series are consistent with the company’s superiorcustomer service.
At Siggraph 2008, August 12-14, AMD will showcase ATI FirePro™ professionalgraphics accelerators in Booth 327 at the Los Angeles Convention Center inCalifornia.
Additionally, the first comprehensive review of the ATI FirePro™ V5700,conducted by 3D professor, is available online athttp://www.3dprofessor.org
Availability
The new ATI FirePro V3700 is generally available, and the ATI FirePro V5700 isexpected to begin shipping in September 2008.
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