Drivers

AMD drivers for ATI FireGL graphics card family looks very much like the software most gamers are familiar with. It can be managed in exactly the same way: through the Catalyst Control Center.

I would like to point out a few peculiarities of the ATI FireGL driver. First, it doesn’t offer you to choose any preset profiles optimized for different professional applications. The reason for that is the support of AutoDetect technology that automatically selects the necessary profile depending on the type of application you are running.

The second peculiarity is the support of 10-bit color instead of the standard 8-bit. This expansion of color space is used primarily in medical applications that lack gray gradients for tomography and x-ray visualizations. For these particular cases AMD offers 10-bit color representation and 1024 gray gradients instead of the standard 256.