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New cards from AMD

New cards from AMD

RE: New cards from AMD

These cards hold some good promise! For starters here is a review of the cheapest card:

http://www.3dprofessor.org/Reviews%20Folder%20Pages/FireGLV3600/FireGLV3600P1Intro.htm

From the press release:
ATI FireGL V8650 2GB $2799
ATI FireGL V8600 1GB $1899
ATI FireGL V7600 512MB $999
ATI FireGL V5600 512MB $599
ATI FireGL V3600 256MB $299

For 299 (probably less) it seems to offer pretty good performance and with AMD being leaps ahead in vista driver devellopement they could finally be a worthy quadro competitor?

Stefan Hamminga
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RE: New cards from AMD

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SolidWorks 2008 installs the AGEIA PhysX System Softwarefor use with the animation and Cosmos Motion portion that has been revamped.  I wonder if the 320 stream proccessors in these cards would effectively work with this for physics acceleration.  Just a thought...

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