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Thursday 26 June 2008

AMD delivers OpenGL performance increase for Linux users

AMD has announced new ATI Catalyst drivers with major performance enhancements to ATI FireGL professional graphics cards.

Availability of this enhanced 8.49.7 Linux driver represents a significant leap for Linux customers seeking improved performance of CAD and digital content creation applications that can offer up to approximately 33 per cent faster OpenGL performance than the previous driver.

ATI FireGL graphics customers using Linux can take advantage of performance enhancements whether using the value ATI FireGL V3600 or the ultra high-end ATI FireGL V8650, which comes with the industry’s largest, 2GB frame-buffer memory configuration. The updated driver is compatible with ATI Radeon graphics.

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