Visualisation

Do graphics cards hold the secret to photorealistic real time rendering?

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2009

Last week I saw a very slick demo of a brand new rendering, animation and composition package called MachStudio Pro…

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News

AMD takes the fight to Nvidia at the high-end of professional graphics

Posted by Greg Corke - July 28, 2009

For years AMD (and before it ATI) has been happy to exist only in the mainstream professional graphics market, but…

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Hardware

The best graphics cards for running Solidworks

Posted by DEVELOP3D - August 14, 2009

When choosing a professional graphics card for SolidWorks bigger is not always better. It depends on the types of models…

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News

CAD software support for Windows 7

Posted by DEVELOP3D - January 5, 2010

After coming to terms with some teething problems in Microsoft’s new OS, Rob Jamieson is already looking forward to full…

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Hardware

Full steam ahead

Posted by Stephen Holmes - February 10, 2010

Clean Power Technologies is bringing steam power bang up do date. But when the company moved to high definition 30-inch…

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News

AMD ATI FirePro V8800 sets SolidWorks 2010 on fire

Posted by Greg Corke - April 8, 2010

For the last 24 hours I’ve been sat in a dark room playing with AMD’s brand new professional graphics card,…

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News

Nvidia launches Fermi-based Quadro graphics cards (plus Quadro 5000 benchmark)

Posted by Greg Corke - July 27, 2010

Nvidia’s new Quadro 5000 features 2.5GB GDDR5 memory It’s been a long time coming, but today at Siggraph 2010 Nvidia…

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News

Siggraph 2010 #1: promises, promises

Posted by Stephen Holmes - July 28, 2010

Nvidia’s new 3D Vision Pro, one of the many new 3D technologies on show The show floor opened Tuesday in…

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News

AMD drives six HD monitors from a single ATI FirePro V9800 graphics card

Posted by Greg Corke - September 9, 2010

Dassault Systèmes has had positive experiences testing Catia V5 and V6 on six screens using an ATI FirePro V9800. Forget…

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Product Design

AMD FirePro V5900 / V7900 for CAD (including SolidWorks)

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 24, 2011

AMD's new professional graphics cards not only deliver improvements to the hardware but feature driver optimisations to accelerate 3D in…

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