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Next-Generation Intel® Microarchitecture - The i7 Has Landed with ATI's FirePro V8700

This card is the real direct successor of the extremely successful FireGL V8600 which is to be found within many workstations due to its cost/performance ratio. Popular with many OEM's and System Integrators as the card fulfils a huge set of criteria within the professional graphics industry.

Once more with the aid of ATI's public relations we run through the brief upgrades and features of the card.

ATI FirePro™ V8700 Workstation Graphics Accelerator Overview

Product Name	ATI FirePro V8700
Interface	PCI Express 2.0
Shader Processing Units	800
Full 30-bit Display Pipeline	Yes
Stream Computing	Yes
Memory Configuration	1GB
Memory Type	DDR5
Memory Bandwidth (GB per second)	108.8GB/sec
Per Pixel Colour Component Output	8, 10, 16-bit
Outputs	2 X DisplayPort & 1 X Dual Link DVI-I
Multi-Card Support	Up to 4 3D Displays
OpenGL advanced	2.1
Direct X	10.1
Shader Model	4.1
Slot Occupied	2
Recommended Minimum System Power Supply	550W
Maximum Display Port Resolution	2560 X 1600
Maximum Dual Link Resolution	2560 X 1600

ATI FirePro™ 3D Workstation Graphics Features Include

Feature	Benefit
Unified Shader Architecture	Intelligent management of computation resources enables real-time rendering of complex and realistic images
AutoDetect Technology	With many popular applications, as a user moves between applications, or opens new ones, the graphics driver settings are automatically configured for maximum performance
Full 30-bit Display Pipeline	Full 30-bit display pipeline producing more than one billion colours (10-bit per RGB component) for more accurate colour reproduction and superior visual fidelity¹
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering	Up to 16-Bit per RGB colour component enables a wider spectrum of colour creating natural lighting and shading effects
Multi-View Display	With a Dual Link DVI output and DisplayPort output, Multi-View enables two 3D displays with independent display resolution, refresh rate, and display rotation settings
Full Shader Model 4.0 Support	Allows the user to create complex geometry and scenes without taxing the CPU
Certification	Certification for many CAD and DCC applications pending
DirectX10.1 and OpenGL 2.1 Advanced Features	Great performance, scalability and reliability

ATI FirePro™ 3D Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture

§ 800 Unified Shader Engines

§ Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders

§ Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders

§ Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors

§ Anti-Aliasing Features

§ Multi-sample anti-aliasing: 2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel

§ Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality

§ Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling

Display Capabilities¹

§ Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats

§ Two independent display controllers¹

§ Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, colour controls and video overlays for each display

§ Full 30-bit display processing (10-bit per RGB component)

§ Two integrated DisplayPort outputs

§ Each supporting 24- and 30-bit displays at resolutions up to 2560x1600

§ One integrated Dual Link DVI display output

§ Support 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at resolutions up to 2560x1600

§ Includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content²

API and OS Support

§ OpenGL 2.1 with OpenGL Shading Language

§ Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1

§ Windows® XP, Windows XP64

§ Linux® 32 and Linux 64³

§ Windows Vista® and Windows Vista® 64

System Requirements

§ PCI Express® based workstation with available x16 lane graphics slot

§ 512MB of system memory

§ Installation software requires CD-ROM drive

With these fundamental basics completed lets pop over to the next page and have a look at a few pictures of the Mainboard set-up and the Graphics Card.

Page 1 - i7 Introduction and X58 Smackover Mainboard
Page 2 - ATI FirePro V8700
Page 3 - Pictures
Page 4 - System Set-up and Software Used
Page 5 - HD Tach Version 3.0.4.0 and HD Tune Ver 3.0
Page 6 - Sandra 2009
Page 7 - Everest Disc Benchmark and ATTO Hard Drive Benchmark
Page 8 - PCMark 2005 Advanced
Page 9 - MAXON CINEBENCH 10 and Autodesk 3ds Max 9 SP2 Scenes
Page 10 - Bentley MicroStation V8 XM Graphics Benchmark v1.0.0.5
Page 11 - SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™ and SPECviewperf 10 ®
Page 12 - Conclusions and Awards

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