Ever since ATI acquired the FireGL division from the former Diamond Multimedia new FireGL graphics cards are generally based on ATI’s gaming desktop offerings. Despite more vigorous driver/hardware testing and certification procedures the core architectures are generally very similar. There are however enough architectural tweaks and enhancements to warrant a separate graphics core. ATI’s latest FireGL workstation graphics card is based on their previous Radeon X1800 consumer graphics card. Positioned as an ultra high end workstation graphics card the new FireGL V7350 is set to take on NVIDIA’s Quadro FX4500 ultra high end offering, but does ATI’s latest and greatest have what it takes to do battle with NVIDIA? Enter ATI’s $2000 FireGL V7350 workstation graphics card—this time with 1GB of video memory.