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August 7, 2007

By Doug Barney

Santa Clara-based AMD used this week’s SIGGRAPH 2007 show in San Diego to let loose with no fewer than five new high-powered graphics accelerators. The new ATI FireGL devices can speed OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 10- applications by a factor of three, the company says. 

The graphics boards come with 2GB of memory, and can have as many as 320 stream processing units. Get Desktop Engineering’s full report here.

 

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