Family of AMD Professional Graphics Accelerators Designed to Meet Workstation Customers’ Demanding Needs

ATI FirePro™ 3D Workstation Graphics Accelerators, Based on Industry-Leading Innovations from AMD, Deliver Flexibility, Performance and Reliability Professionals Require, Freeing Them to Create Instead of Wait

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its entire line of ATI FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics accelerators, with industry-leading innovations, is receiving strong support and praise from media, industry analysts and technology partners in 2009. By offering a range of ATI FirePro accelerators, workstation manufacturers can better help customers find the right system and the right 3D graphics accelerator to best meet their performance, expandability and affordability needs. For more details, please click here to read about OEM developments in March and here for April.

“AMD is central to our current, and future, performance and capability improvements by providing us with significant development support and direction. We continue to recognize AMD as a significant strategic hardware partner and look forward to our continued close relationship.”

The family of ATI FirePro™ 3D graphics accelerators provides a breadth of features and outstanding application performance, delivering the performance, certifications and reliability professionals demand, at every price point:

• ATI FirePro™ V8700: Recently praised by Desktop Engineering for its “…significant speed at an affordable price,” this ultra-high end accelerator is ideally suited for sizable models and shader-intensive applications offering a 30-bit display¹ pipeline for accurate color reproduction and superior visual quality
• ATI FirePro™ V7750: Announced at Game Developers Conference 2009 at the end of March, the latest addition to the ATI FirePro family delivers 1GB of frame buffer memory to handle large CAD models and complex animations with ease
• ATI FirePro™ V5700: A mid-range offering, this accelerator delivers the perfect balance of price and application performance for design engineering professionals and firms working with complex design with thousands of parts. AMD customer Mastenbroek Ltd. reports that it was able to cut down the load time of a design with 5,500 parts from five minutes to one using ATI FirePro V7500 and Autodesk Inventor. Read more about Mastenbroek’s experience at Cadalyst.com²
• ATI FirePro™ V3750: As the industry’s first professional 3D workstation graphics accelerator in the entry space showing an average of 30 percent performance improvement over the previous generation³, ATI FirePro V3750 has the potential accelerate certain CAD applications by as much as 40 percent⁴
• ATI FirePro™ V3700: Its addition to the ATI FirePro family established a new, low entry price for CAD professionals moving from 2D to 3D graphics – delivering performance and application certification these professionals deserve for less than $100 MSRP.

In addition to offering professionals the features that matter most, ATI FirePro 3D workstation graphics accelerators are thoroughly tested and certified at AMD test labs based on industry standards. AMD works closely with leading ISV partners, including Autodesk and Dassault Systèmes, to implement optimizations that enable their software solutions to take better advantage of the latest hardware developments.

Supporting Quotes:

“PTC and AMD have had a long standing relationship working together. AMD is one of only a few strategic hardware partners to PTC. We continue to work closely together to ensure we have the best possible performance for our application and the ATI FirePro™ hardware,” said Paul Sagar, product manager CAID solutions, PTC. “AMD is central to our current, and future, performance and capability improvements by providing us with significant development support and direction. We continue to recognize AMD as a significant strategic hardware partner and look forward to our continued close relationship.”

“SolidWorks^® users demand products with superior performance, such as the ATI FirePro V7750, to enable real-time rendering but without the traditional hang-ups,” said Nick Iwaskow, Manager of Alliances, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. “The top-to-bottom feature set and performance of the new ATI FirePro™ product family can give our SolidWorks users the efficiency to boost productivity and creativity.”

Resources:

• For more information on ATI FirePro™ 3D workstation graphics accelerators, please click here.
• Follow AMD professional graphics updates on Twitter: @ATIFirePro
• For general AMD updates on Twitter follow: @AMDUnprocessed
• To hear about what it takes to succeed in the workstation business, watch this testimonial video from Dr. Jon Peddie, Founder and President of Jon Peddie Research
• Check out supporting videos from customers and ISV partners to learn more about ATI FirePro™ 3D graphics accelerators, software optimizations and improved user experiences:
  • The team from Troublemaker Studios discusses how AMD helps enable content creation.
  • Redway3d CEO Lionel Schmitt addresses how they work with AMD to deliver innovative graphics solutions to meet professional users' needs.
  • Fabien Chauvire, VP of Sales at Redway3d, explains how the company ensures software robustness by tapping the power of both the CPU and the GPU.
  • Michel Samah, solution studio manager for MSC Software, addresses the importance of optimizing its software and ATI FirePro hardware for a superior virtual product visualization experience.
  • Paul Sagar, product manager computer aided design solutions for PTC, discusses ATI FirePro as a real-time solution for CAD customers.
  • Dan Schikore, VP of Engineering at CEI, talks about ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators.
  • Stuart Reid, director of product systems and Graphics Development Group, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., talks about ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators.
  • Ron Bates, Manager of Graphical Applications, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp, talks about ATI FirePro 3D graphics accelerators.

About AMD

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¹Requires 30-bit monitor for true 30-bit color display.

²Based on information provided by the customer and not independently verified by AMD. Results obtained by individual customers may vary.

³Comparison made against previous ATI FireGL™ products. Based on the SPECviewperf® 10 composite scores of ATI FirePro™ V8700, ATI FireGL™ V7700 and ATI FireGL V7600. Test run on HP xw4600, Intel Core2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz, 4GB DDR2-800 memory, Microsoft® Windows® XP 32-bit.

⁴Based on the SPECviewperf® 10 composite scores for UGNX comparing ATI FirePro™ V3750 against previous ATI FireGL™ products. Test run on HP xw4600, Intel Core2 Extreme Q6850 @ 3.0 GHz, 4GB system memory, Microsoft® Windows® XP 32-bit.

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