PCI Express Innovation Has Arrived

The ATI FireGL™ Visualization series of workstation graphics accelerators is designed specifically for the new, high-bandwidth PCI Express® bus, and is architected to deliver unprecedented speed and image quality for real-time visualization. True cinematic quality rendering is now available for compelling animation, visual effects, mechanical design and leadingedge business communication.

Leveraging ATI’s graphics technology leadership, the ATI FireGL V3100, ATI FireGL V3200, ATI FireGL V5100 and ATI FireGL V7100 are built on a robust, scalable and extensive graphics architecture that takes full advantage of the powerful PCI Express standard.

Two Way Acceleration with ATI's Single-Chip PCI EXPRESS Solution

The bridgeless, single-chip design of the ATI FireGL native PCI Express graphics processor fully engages all of the benefits of this interconnect standard in the safest, most costeffective, and most reliable transition from AGP. Unlike other ‘bridged’ PCI Express implementations, ATI’s ATI FireGL PCI Express products deliver full bandwidth in both upstream and downstream directions, doubling the capabilities of previous products.

Compatibility and Stability

ATI’s FireGL cards — whether PCI Express x16 lane or AGP 8X— are designed to accelerate 3D workstation applications based on OpenGL® and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0. With full certification on the leading computer aided design (CAD), architecture/engineering/ construction (AEC) and digital content creation (DCC) applications, ATI FireGL is the high performance choice for graphics professionals working in Windows® and Linux®.

Feature-Rich Performance Within Budget

ATI FireGL products are loaded with high-end features, and deliver unprecedented levels of performance, without the high price tag. All ATI FireGL boards offer dual display support with many in the new Visualization series featuring a stereo 3D connector and support for quad-buffered stereo 3D output. In addition, the new high-end ATI FireGL V7100 delivers superb image quality through a dual link connection that will support 9 Mpixel displays. All ATI FireGL products include a comprehensive three-year warranty and product support delivered by a dedicated level-three workstation team.

Features

ATI FireGL Visualization Series

• Built on ATI’s native “single-chip” PCI Express x16 lane architecture
• Optimized and certified for professional workstation applications based on OpenGL® and DirectX® 9.0
• Stunning visual quality and real-time performance with up to 16 pixel pipelines and 6 geometry engines
• Up to 256 MB DDR unified graphics memory
• Dual Link available for ultra-high resolution output
• Quad-buffered stereo 3D output
• Windows® and Linux® support

Specifications

Graphics technology

• Powered by ATI’s scalable ATI FireGL workstation Visual Processing Units (GPU)
• Up to 256-bit high bandwidth memory architecture
• 2, 4 or 6 parallel geometry engines
• 4, 8 or 16 parallel pixel pipelines
• 128-bit full floating point precision
• 24-bits per RGBA component displays beyond 16.7M colors

 

Display support

• Dual DVI-I supports any combination of digital and analog displays¹
• Maximum resolution of 2048x1536 per analog display (dual mode)
• 3840 x 2400 support (dual link²)
• Independent resolution and refresh rate selection for any two connected displays
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI compliant)

API and Operating systems support

• OpenGL® 1.5 + extensions
• OpenGL Shading Language
• Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0
• DX9 HLSL
• Windows® XP/Windows XP64/Windows 2000
• Linux® 32/Linux 64

Graphic Features

Hardware acceleration of the following:

• Anti-aliased points and lines or full scene anti-aliasing (2X, 4X, 6X)
• 3D lines and triangles
• Stipple points
• Two-sided lighting
• Up to 8 light sources
• Directional and local lighting
• OpenGL overlay planes
• Occlusion culling
• 6 user defined clip planes
• penGL polymode functions
• 32-bit (24+8-bit stencil) Z Buffer
• Fast Z and color clears
• Full DX9 vertex shader support
• Quad-buffer stereo support³

SmartShader™ Technology

• Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
• 16 textures per pass
• Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 32-bit floating point precision for each RGBA component
• Multiple render target support
• Shadow volume rendering acceleration
• High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support HyperZ™
• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear

SmoothVision™ Technology

• 2X/4X/6X anti-aliasing modes
• High performance adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns
• 2X/4X/8X/16X anisotropic filtering modes
• Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options

HYPER Z™

• 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test
• Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1)
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear

System requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4/Xeon™, AMD Athlon®/Opteron™ or compatible CPU
• PCI Express bus
• 128MB of system memory (256MB or more recommended)
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• 300 watt or greater power supply (recommended)

Warranty and Support

• 3-year limited product repair/replacement warranty
• Workstation level technical support via email and phone
• Advanced parts replacement option
• edicated workstation level-three technical support via email and tollfree hotline

 

1 ATI FireGL V3100 which has one DVI-I and one VGA connector.
2 Dual link available on ATI FireGL V7100 only.
3 Stereo 3D available on ATI FireGL V3200, ATI FireGL V5100 and ATI FireGL V7100.
4 ATI FireGL V3100 has one DVI-I and one VGA connector.