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ATI Unveils New Fire GL X1 Board

Following on the heels of last week's announcements of new consumer boards, ATI Technologies today unveiled the Fire GL X1 workstation graphics board, based on the new Ra...

Game Developer, Staff

July 23, 2002

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Following on the heels of last week's announcements of new consumer boards, ATI Technologies today unveiled the Fire GL X1 workstation graphics board, based on the new Radeon 9700 processor. Featuring eight parallel rendering pipelines, the Fire GL X1 will sport a fully programmable 128-bit floating point architecture. Other features will include:

  • 256MB DDR memory and a 256-bit memory interface

    • Support for AGP 8X

    • DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 support

    • Support for up to 16 textures per rendering pass and vertex programs of up to 1,024 instructions with flow control

    • Dual integrated display controllers with dual monitor support. The Fire GL X1 is scheduled to be available in October 2002. No pricing information was provided.

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