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  • Shadowmaster625 - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link

    We're supposed to know what an ISV is?
  • bigdisk - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link

    Yes you are. It's an Indenpendant Software Vendor.
  • TrackSmart - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link

    I had to look it up (which took time since the correct answer was definitely not anywhere near the first hit). Watch out for those undefined industry-jargon acronyms...
  • jeremyshaw - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link

    In the 3D/CAD industry... yes. Yes, you are.
  • videogames101 - Friday, April 13, 2012 - link

    I'm extremely happy to see GPU manufacturer advising and working with CAD suite developers to make a more robust rendering environment, and I think if this continues from both Nvidia and AMD end users are going to see significant improvements in performance and image/rendering quality. Nice!
  • AG@FirePro - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - link

    Yes, our ISV Alliances team worked very closely with PTC on these features and we essentially wrote these performance optimization into the application with a bit of assistance from our friends at PTC

    OIT for PTC Creo Parametric 2.0 is (for now) only enabled when running AMD FirePro cards. (sorry, Nvidia users)

    VBO was a "gift" to the Creo community -and is enabled in Creo when using all certified GPUs (even NVidia Quadro)

    We partner very closely with most of the CAD and M&E ISVs to help them optimize their own applications, This is nothing new. We also work hard on our end to ensure that our drivers are further optimized to extract maximum stability and performance in OpenGL, OpenCL and application-specific features and methods.

    Adam G.
    Amd FirePro team
  • MGSsancho - Saturday, April 14, 2012 - link

    Unused hardware is wasted hardware. Especially when you have the budget for capable systems and spending a few thousand pales in comparison to the salaries of engineers etc. But yes this is amazing that after these software updates, engineers and replace their GPUs and see great gains in performance and accuracy. :)
  • greylica - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link

    As long as they don't block functionality to create more specific ISV market niches based on stupid software patents that should be illegal, OK for me...
  • Belard - Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - link

    Back about 10 years ago, they had a free edition of one of their software products. Just register it and not use it for actual business production.

    Their 3D CAD/CAM software is among the best... AUTOCAD is pretty much the standard "CRAP" software in the CAD/CAM industry.

    I haven't used PTC in years, but it was very cool stuff. You can design mechanically how something works. Such as bolts, gears, components and make sure they fit, etc.

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