ATi had just launched a version of FireGL that comes with a whopping 1GB ofgraphics memory. The ATi FireGL V7350 is ATi's latest shot at the workstation(Linux / Windows) market - a segment that's dominated by NVIDIA's line of Quadroline products. This new FireGL cards feature an R520 core, that's also used inX1800 family of gaming cards from ATi. The R520 core on this FireGL card isclocked at 600MHz, and Memory clocked at 650MHz. Offering 3 times the processingpower of a 3GHz Pentium 4 CPU, these new cards can pump about 84Gflops infloating point performance. Sadly, this FireGL card doesn't support CrossFireMultiGPU technology - a set back for ATi, since NVIDIA's flagship Quadro FX 4500offers SLi capability. The FireGL V7350 is being sold at an eye popping pricetag of USD$ 2000.
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