AMD Offers OpenGL 3.0 Support in ATI FirePro Drivers

AMD has announced that the company will offer OpenGL 3.0 support in ATI FirePro drivers. Along with this, the company also announced that it will publish high value OpenGL extensions and future support for the OpenGL 3.1.

 

The ATI FirePro includes a new ATI OpenGL optimized driver with the ATI FireGL graphics technology. According to AMD (News - Alert), this provides a new level of graphics performance and reliability for professional 3D graphics users. The ATI FirePro is said to be ideal for Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Digital Content Creation (DCC) and simulation markets. It comes with features such as Dual Link DVI output for driving ultra high resolution widescreen monitors.

 

OpenGL 3.1 is the newest revision of the cross-platform 2D and 3D graphics API. It is supported with ATI Catalyst version 8.583 graphics drivers for ATI FirePro. AMD plans to continue to expand its support for extensions targeted at future versions of OpenGL, including OpenGL 3.1.

 

By incorporating a wide variety of rendering, texture mapping, special effects, OpenGL helps foster innovation and speed application development. To get wide application deployment, developers can use the power of OpenGL across all popular desktop and workstation platforms.

 

“AMD’s implementation of OpenGL 3.0 demonstrates our commitment to delivering continued support for the OpenGL API, which is the API of choice for many CAD, digital content creation and scientific application providers,” said Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics. “AMD has long been an active participant in OpenGL API standards work. We look forward to future enhancements that will be available in OpenGL 3.1 and beyond.”

 

Recently, the company unveiled the new ATI FirePro V7750 graphics accelerator to handle large models and shader-intensive applications to deliver stunning visual output. This new quad-display card sports 1GB of GDDR3 frame-buffer memory, a 30-bit display pipeline and twin DisplayPort connectors plus has one dual-link DVI socket. Each DVI output supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at resolutions up to 2560x1600.