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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News

DEVELOP3D puts new AMD FirePro V5900 graphics card through its paces

Posted by Greg Corke - May 25, 2011

AMD’s FirePro V5900 can deliver exceptional performance in 3D CAD applications when given the chance. Being a journalist is not…

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News

Siggraph 2011 #1: Feeling good in Vancouver

Posted by Stephen Holmes - August 10, 2011

The majestic North Shore Mountains, the backdrop for Siggraph 2011, Vancouver It’s relatively easy to complain about the Siggraph conference…

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News

AMD gets some GPU compute action with OpenCL compliant release of Abaqus 6.11

Posted by Greg Corke - September 6, 2011

With the new OpenCL compliant release, structural and multiphysics simulations in Abaqus 6.11 can now been accelerated using a wide…

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