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ATI FIREGL V7350
A New Day – A New Dawning A new red dawn is upon us as today we present to you with the first world wide exclusive showing of the mighty new ATI FireGL V7350 Top End Professional Graphics Card. Its sibling the FireGL V7300 we shall cover this card in a separate review later in the month. Though today, we have to sit back in awe admiring this remarkable long awaited product which should put back in to play both parties on an even keel. For the last 6 months we have seen new professional workstation card, after card, crawling out of NVIDIA'S stables picking resounding speed and capturing much of this highly fought after market up fast. Until now………. Well then what does this new selection of cards from ATI have to offer? The cards below summarise a few of the new features and much more information can be gained from ATI’s website. Our reasoning for keeping this short is that you all shall want to see the results and what platforms have been used for this new exciting technology. Just some of the features of the new ATI FireGL Cards:
FireGL Model	Memory Configuration	Memory Controller Interface	Memory Bandwidth (GB per Second)	Ultra Threaded Architecture	Parallel Geometry Engines
V7350	1GB	512-Bit Ring Bus	41.6	Yes	8
V7300	512MB	512-Bit Ring Bus	41.6	Yes	8

FireGL Model	Vertices Per Second	Pixel Shader Processors	Pixel Operations Per Second	Full 10-Bit Display Support	64-bit per pixel HDR Rendering Support
V7350	1200M	16	9.6G	Yes	Yes
V7300	1200M	16	9.6G	Yes	Yes

Today’s graphics memories are all derivatives of DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) technology. DDR memories all share the ability to transfer two bits of data per wire each clock cycle. Recently, a number of new versions of DDR technology have been introduced that offer significantly higher clocks speeds among their list of benefits. These include DDR2, GDDR3, and GDDR4. To take advantage of these new high speed memory devices, the FireGL Memory Controller was designed using this novel Ring Bus Architecture. Traditionally we would see Memory read sequence in a traditional hub/spoke architecture 1. Memory client makes read request to memory controller. 2. Controller gathers and prioritizes requests, then sends them to memory devices. 3. Memory devices send requested data back to the controller. 4. Memory controller sends the data on to the client that requested it. With the new Ring Bus Memory Memory read sequence in a ring bus architecture 1. Memory client makes read request to memory controller. 2. Controller gathers and prioritizes requests, then sends them to memory devices. 3. Memory devices place requested data on the ring bus. 4. Clients pull their requested data off of the ring bus. Therefore to summarise The FireGL V73 Series delivers rendering performance beyond what was possible in any previous architecture. This is largely made possible by a new ring bus memory controller design, featuring programmable arbitration logic and fully associative caches. These innovations maximize bandwidth efficiency, minimize latency, and scale up to unprecedented memory clock speeds. They also allow the FireGL V73 Series to achieve unmatched frame rates when running the latest applications at high resolutions, with maximum detail settings and the latest image quality enhancing features enabled. This has been very difficult in what to decide to use, as so many users in the wild have systems of varying degrees of complexity. Therefore we decided upon using what is seen recently in some houses. Yes for once we have not shown the fastest system on the block but what the average user possibly has. From here, the end users will be able to see just how simple it is to upgrade and not spend thousands of those hard earned monies on what normally has to be the complete upgrade. First let’s start with a couple of pictures of the card – more of these maybe obtained from us. They will be e-mailed out on a first come first served basis. Please note that reproduction upon other websites without our, or ATI’s permission is forbidden. Then a few pictures of the card in each system used for the tests to show how much room the card actually takes up. You will be surprised on just how little it needs!



Dual Intel 3.6GHz Xeon
Dual Supermicro Paxville 2.8GHz Xeon
MSI Diamond Plus and AMD Opteron 180

Page 1 - ATI FireGL V7350 and Pictures Page 2 - Four Test Systems Configurations Page 3 - Benchmarks Page 4 - Benchmarks Continued and Conclusions

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