Barco expands range of high-performance medical graphics boards with high-end 4‑head display controller

Kor­tri­jk, Bel­gi­um, 3 Decem­ber 2013 – Health­ca­re ima­ging spe­cia­list Bar­co intro­du­ces the MXRT-7500, a brand-new 3D PCIe dis­play con­trol­ler sup­port­ing up to 4 full reso­lu­ti­on dis­plays. The first board to offer com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with the Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2 inter­face stan­dard, the MXRT-7500 fea­tures the PCIe 3.0 inter­face and the latest in AMD Fire­ProTM 3D tech­no­lo­gy, ensu­ring ultra-fast loa­ding of medi­cal images and lar­ge datasets. 

 

All-in-one dis­play con­trol­ler for 4‑head configurations

Fit­ted with 4GB of memo­ry and an ultra-fast GPU, the top-of-the-line MXRT-7500 offers unmat­ched pro­ces­sing power for lar­ge medi­cal data­sets. The MXRT-7500 sup­ports DirectX, OpenGL, and Open­CL and is com­pa­ti­ble with Micro­soft Win­dows® 7. The board can dri­ve up to four full reso­lu­ti­on dis­plays over Dis­play­Po­rt – making the MXRT-7500 per­fect for use in 4‑head con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons. This ‘all-in-one’ approach saves space on the PC, sim­pli­fies instal­la­ti­on, and signi­fi­cant­ly redu­ces the total cost of ownership.

The best visu­al expe­ri­ence for enhan­ced productivity
The MXRT-7500 uses third-gene­ra­ti­on AMD Fire­ProTM 3D tech­no­lo­gy for lea­ding-edge dis­play per­for­mance and fle­xi­bi­li­ty. “Tog­e­ther, Bar­co and AMD focus on brin­ging solu­ti­ons that are tail­o­red to the needs of deman­ding medi­cal appli­ca­ti­ons. The gro­wing volu­me of lar­ge medi­cal data­sets, com­bi­ned with the need for increased rea­ding pro­duc­ti­vi­ty are fue­ling cus­to­mer demands for the hig­hest pos­si­ble visu­al expe­ri­ence. Our high-end AMD Fire­ProTM work­sta­tion gra­phics cards deli­ver enhan­ced visu­al ima­ging and per­for­mance to the medi­cal field while kee­ping hard­ware cos­ts down,” comm­ents David Cum­mings, seni­or direc­tor and gene­ral mana­ger, Pro­fes­sio­nal Gra­phics at AMD.

Barco’s new MXRT-7500 medi­cal dis­play con­trol­ler com­bi­nes the best of the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on with next-gene­ra­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies to ensu­re fas­ter trans­fer of an increased num­ber of lar­ge medi­cal images,” comm­ents Becky Kiich­le, Pro­duct Mana­ger Dis­play Con­trol­lers at Bar­co Health­ca­re. “Com­pared to the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on, the MXRT-7500 achie­ves, on avera­ge, a 34% per­for­mance impro­ve­ment on 2D bench­marks, a 28% impro­ve­ment on OpenGL 3D bench­marks, and a 40% impro­ve­ment on DirectX 3D benchmarks.”

A full sys­tem solution
As part of Barco’s sys­tem approach, the new MXRT-7500 dis­play con­trol­ler has been ful­ly tes­ted and opti­mi­zed to work with Barco’s full ran­ge of Nio and Coro­nis dis­play pro­ducts as well as its Medi­Cal QAWeb soft­ware solu­ti­on. Vigo­rous com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty test­ing also ensu­res relia­ble per­for­mance with the latest work­sta­tions and with the lea­ding PACS applications.

About Bar­co
Bar­co, a glo­bal tech­no­lo­gy com­pa­ny, designs and deve­lo­ps visua­liza­ti­on pro­ducts for a varie­ty of sel­ec­ted pro­fes­sio­nal mar­kets. Bar­co has its own faci­li­ties for Sales & Mar­ke­ting, Cus­to­mer Sup­port, R&D and Manu­fac­tu­ring in Euro­pe, North Ame­ri­ca and Asia Paci­fic. Bar­co (NYSE Euron­ext Brussels: BAR) is acti­ve in more than 90 count­ries with about 3,900 employees world­wi­de. Bar­co pos­ted sales of 1.156 bil­li­on euro in 2012. 

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