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Bill Gates




AMD announces graphics performance gains and ISV certifications Print
Written by Rob Squires   
Monday, 26 July 2010


AMD ANNOUNCED TODAY that its latest generation of ATI FirePro professional graphics cards have received 47 application certifications from leading ISVs.  Application certification for ATI FirePro hardware by leading publishers assures professionals these applications will perform reliably.   AMD's latest ATI FirePro graphics, including ATI FirePro V3800, V4800, V5800, V7800, V8800 and M7820, have received certification for 47 partner applications from ANSYS, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, Luxology, PTC, Side Effects, Siemens PLM and others.

They additionally announced, a soon to be released beta driver that is expected to deliver considerable performance gains on popular computer aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) applications over the previous generation of drivers.  The updated driver will offer users across the board performance increases for the latest generation ATI FirePro graphics on the LightWave 3D subset of the new SPECviewperf 11 benchmark.

 

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