Although I typically could hear the fan on the V7350, it didn't rise to levels that I would consider noisy. Each change to these optimal settings required a system reboot to take effect. With ATI graphics driver v.8.223.0.0 installed, I ran the system through Cadalyst's normal course of benchmark tests: the Cadalyst C2006 benchmark on AutoCAD 2005, MAXBench 4 on 3ds max 8 with service pack 2 installed, and the ProE-03 viewset of SPEC ViewPerf 8.10 ( All tests were conducted using the application-specific settings in the base Windows driver with Wait for Vertical Retrace disabled. I'll review the system in more detail in an upcoming issue. It was equipped with 2GB RAM and came with Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 preinstalled. The workstation featured an AMD Athlon64 FX-60 dual-core processor supported by the ATI X200CF chipset on an Asus A8R-MVP motherboard.

Quad-buffered stereo pairs result in a smooth animation of both left and right alternating views.įor this review, I used a new Polywell PolyStation 939CF-V7350 workstation that, as the system name indicates, housed a new ATI FireGL V7350 graphics card. The new ATI FireGL V7350 graphics card features 1GB of onboard memory and two dual-link DVI-I outputs.ĪTI FireGL products support stereoscopic 3D viewing through a built-in connector. The V7350 also supports the 16-bit per color component of HDR (high dynamic range) displays. They support single 9-megapixel monitors at a resolution of 3840×2400 or dual-display output at 2560×1600 per screen. Both the V7300 and the V7350 include two dual-link DVI-I output connectors. The V7350 is the first readily available graphics card to offer that much base memory.Ī double-width graphics card, the FireGL V7350 requires an additional slot space when installed to accommodate its thickness.

The primary difference between the two is that the FireGL V7300 comes with 512MB of memory while the V7350, which I tested, provides 1GB of onboard GDDR3 (graphics double data rate, v3) memory. Both are listed as ultrahigh-performance cards. First Look Review: ATI FireGL V7350 30 Apr, 2006 By: Ron LaFon 1GB RAM graphics cardĪTI Technologies just released two new products in its FireGL line of graphics cards: the V7300 and the V7350.

512Mb Memory Card Shader Model 3.0