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AMD Launches New Broadside in Graphics Wars

Five speedy new accelerators keep up the pressure, keep down the prices.

Five speedy new accelerators keep up the pressure, keep down the prices.

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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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