Janet Matsuda, senior director, AMD Professional Graphics reckons, “ATI has been known for delivering value-priced solutions for CAD and DCC professionals. The product reviews over the past year have validated the fact that ATI offers outstanding application performance as well.”

ATI FirePro V5700 features 512MB of frame buffer memory, dual link DVI and Display Port connections. Its true 30-bit display engine produces more than one billion colours at any given time. Unified Video Decoder 2.0 provides full Blu-ray feature support including dual-stream and picture in a picture (PIP) capabilities, and handles decoding of various formats in the graphics processing unit (GPU), which helps free up the CPU to handle other tasks.

The ATI FirePro V3700 features 256 MB of frame buffer memory, two dual-link DVI connectors and VGA mode support on all display outlets.Both cards deliver the industry standard support and features important to today’s CAD and DCC users, including Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.0 support, PCI Express 2.0 interface and Shader Model 4.1."