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ATI introduces Fire GL X1. (graphics cards).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)

Computer Graphics World

| October 01, 2002 | Donelan, Jenny | COPYRIGHT 2002 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The latest heavy hitter in the 3D graphics accelerator wars is the Fire GL X1 from ATI Technologies. The new card is based on ATI's Radeon 9700 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) and delivers fully programmable floating-point architecture in both OpenGL 2.0 and DirectX 9--the first such card, according to ATI, to do so.

The card is also the first in the industry to offer eight parallel rendering pipelines, which are designed to provide digital content creators with the ability to preview finished scenes in real time. The Fire GL X1 is also engineered to offload complex data calculations ...

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