New AMD Professional Graphics Card Delivers GPU Compute Power For Future-Ready 4K Workstation Workflows and Personal Supercomputing

AMD Fire­Pro™ W8100 deli­vers 38X more per­for­mance than clo­sest com­pe­ting product -

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Jun. 23 2014 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today laun­ched the AMD Fire­Pro™ W8100 pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics card, enab­ling new levels of work­sta­tion per­for­mance deli­ver­ed by the company’s second gene­ra­ti­on, indus­try-lea­ding AMD Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re. With near­ly 38 times the per­for­mance of the clo­sest com­pe­ting pro­duct based on dou­ble pre­cis­i­on test­ing1, and powered by Open­CL™, the AMD Fire­Pro W8100 is desi­gned for the next gene­ra­ti­on of 4K CAD (Com­pu­ting Aided Design) and Media and Enter­tain­ment (M&E) work­flows, engi­nee­ring ana­ly­sis and super­com­pu­ting appli­ca­ti­ons. Bols­te­ring the AMD Pro­fes­sio­nal Gra­phics pro­duct fami­ly with yet ano­ther pro­duc­ti­ve work­sta­tion solu­ti­on, the AMD Fire­Pro W8100 fea­tures a best-in-class 8 GB of GDDR5 memo­ry, up to 4.2 TFLOPS of sin­gle pre­cis­i­on com­pu­te per­for­mance, and unmat­ched dou­ble pre­cis­i­on com­pu­te per­for­mance of up to 2.1 TFLOPS.

Engi­nee­ring Ana­ly­sis is beco­ming incre­asing­ly rele­vant for high-end work­sta­tion work­flows, and 4K dis­plays dri­ve the need for more per­for­mance in media pro­duc­tion pipe­lines,” said David Cum­mings, seni­or direc­tor and gene­ral mana­ger, Pro­fes­sio­nal Gra­phics at AMD. “By adding the AMD Fire­Pro W8100, we’ve expan­ded the AMD Fire­Pro fami­ly to enable pro­fes­sio­nals — in coope­ra­ti­on with our hard­ware and soft­ware part­ners — with the right work­sta­tion per­for­mance they demand for next gene­ra­ti­on 4K work­flows and super­com­pu­ting applications.”

At Dell, we belie­ve in pro­vi­ding our work­sta­tion cus­to­mers with the most effec­ti­ve tools to accom­plish their tasks — Dell Pre­cis­i­on work­sta­tions with AMD Fire­Pro pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics help give our cus­to­mers tho­se cru­cial tools,” said Andy Rho­des, exe­cu­ti­ve direc­tor, Dell Pre­cis­i­on work­sta­tions. “Ultra high-reso­lu­ti­on work­flows and new appli­ca­ti­ons based on Open­CL are beco­ming more of the rule than the excep­ti­on for our cus­to­mers. The AMD Fire­Pro W8100, desi­gned for next gene­ra­ti­on 4K CAD and M&E work­flows, will be a gre­at opti­on for cus­to­mers that demand high-level per­for­mance to tack­le their deman­ding work­flows and focus on their work.”

HP work­sta­tion cus­to­mers will be empowered by the AMD Fire­Pro W8100 to be suc­cessful with both com­pu­ter aided engi­nee­ring pro­jects as well as digi­tal crea­ti­ve efforts,” said Jeff Wood, vice pre­si­dent, World­wi­de Pro­duct Manage­ment, Com­mer­cial Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness Unit, HP. “AMD Fire­Pro W8100 offers our work­sta­tion cus­to­mers with the power and per­for­mance requi­red for appli­ca­ti­on success.”

AMD Fire­Pro W8100 mir­rors the phi­lo­so­phy that we pro­vi­de in our soft­ware – uncom­pro­mi­sing qua­li­ty matched with relia­ble tools,” said Ste­ve Ban­ner­man, vice-pre­si­dent mar­ke­ting, ASSIMILATE. “We’re start­ing to see a real tran­si­ti­on in our cus­to­mer base to 4K work­flows as SCRATCH artists make fea­ture films, tele­vi­si­on shows and com­mer­cials by pushing the boun­da­ries tech­no­lo­gy deli­vers. The AMD Fire­Pro W8100 com­ple­ments SCRATCH by pro­vi­ding excep­tio­nal qua­li­ty to work­flow process.”

Through our inter­nal test­ing we have deter­mi­ned that the new AMD Fire­Pro W8100 gra­phics card will enable our cus­to­mers to impro­ve pro­duc­ti­vi­ty based on indus­try lea­ding pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics tech­no­lo­gy,” said Ray Bro­well, Lead Pro­duct Mana­ger, ANSYS, Inc.  “ANSYS cus­to­mers that hand­le com­plex sys­tems and simu­la­ti­ons will cer­tain­ly bene­fit from the per­for­mance, relia­bi­li­ty and valued cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on that the new AMD pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics card provides.”

The intro­duc­tion of the AMD Fire­Pro W8100 com­ple­ments our cur­rent SIMULIA release with acce­le­ra­ted com­pu­te per­for­mance and enhan­ces our cus­to­mer sup­port for work­sta­tions and ser­vers in mul­ti­ple envi­ron­ments for High Per­for­mance Com­pu­ting,” said Matt Dun­bar, Soft­ware Archi­tec­tu­re Direc­tor, SIMULIA, Das­sault Sys­tè­mes. “With 8GB of dedi­ca­ted fast memo­ry plus over 2 TFLOPS of dual-pre­cis­i­on floa­ting-point per­for­mance, AMD Fire­Pro W8100 com­bi­nes with Aba­qus to enable cus­to­mers with the abili­ty to pro­cess even lar­ger simu­la­ti­on data­sets and deli­ver fas­ter, more accu­ra­te and detail­ed results.”

Adri­an Thomp­son, VP of Mar­ke­ting for SAPPHIRE Tech­no­lo­gy, the Exclu­si­ve Glo­bal Dis­tri­bu­ti­on Part­ner for AMD Fire­Pro com­men­ted: “The AMD Fire­Pro W8100 deli­vers the exci­ting per­for­mance levels the pro­fes­sio­nal user is loo­king for across a broad ran­ge of com­pu­te and gra­phi­cal­ly inten­si­ve tasks, and is ide­al not just for inte­gra­ti­on into new work­sta­tions, but also deli­vers a stun­ning upgrade for users loo­king to increase pro­duc­ti­vi­ty in today’s deman­ding applications.”

The AMD Fire­Pro W8100 is the ide­al pro­fes­sio­nal-gra­de solu­ti­on for CAD as well as appli­ca­ti­ons dedi­ca­ted to video editing, color cor­rec­tion, com­po­si­ting, design visua­liza­ti­on and GPU-acce­le­ra­ted com­pu­te tasks. The AMD Fire­Pro W8100 fea­tures 8GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 on-board memo­ry, desi­gned to empower work­sta­tion users to load much lar­ger data­sets or hand­le ultra-HD video frames on the GPU’s inter­nal memo­ry for pro­ces­sing, dimi­nis­hing lag while impro­ving the over­all respon­si­ve­ness of the work­sta­tion. Up to four AMD Fire­Pro W8100 cards can be com­bi­ned in a sin­gle sys­tem for sca­lable GPU com­pu­te per­for­mance of over 16 TFLOPS. The AMD Fire­Pro W8100 allows users to be pro­duc­ti­ve with up to four 4K dis­play sup­port and cer­ti­fied appli­ca­ti­on per­for­mance with dif­fe­ren­tia­ted gra­phics features.

To address the increased requi­re­ments for real-time 4K pro­duc­ti­vi­ty, the AMD Fire­Pro Ultra Work­sta­tion was crea­ted with input from indus­try lea­ders to bring to mar­ket sin­gle- and mul­ti-GPU con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons based on the new AMD Fire­Pro™ W8100 that can match the demand of com­pu­te-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons. Sup­port­ing Work­sta­tion Sys­tem Inte­gra­tors include: Arma­ri, CARRI, Col­fax, Exxact, Mou­se Com­pu­ter, PSSC Labs, Scan Inter­na­tio­nal, Tarox, Ver­sa­ti­le Dis­tri­bu­ti­on Ser­vices, Work­sta­tion Spe­cia­lists and Wort­mann.

The AMD Fire­Pro™ W8100 is available start­ing in July from AMD’s glo­bal dis­tri­bu­ti­on part­ner SAPPHIRE Tech­no­lo­gy, AMD Fire­Pro™ Ultra Work­sta­tion pro­vi­ders, and major work­sta­tion providers.

The AMD Fire­Pro™ W8100 plus a sneak pre­view of the forth­co­ming AMD Fire­Pro™ S9150 will be on dis­play at the AMD exhi­bit booth at Inter­na­tio­nal Super Com­pu­ting 2014 (#150).

Sup­port­ing Resources

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1 SiS­oft­ware San­dra test details:
Sys­tem Descrip­ti­on: AMD Fire­Pro W8100 vs. Nvi­dia Qua­dro K5000 — Dell T3610, Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 @ 3.60 GHz, 8GB DDR3, Sea­gate HDD 7200RPM, Win7 64-bit SP1, , 1920x1080 resolution
AMD Dri­ver 13.352.1009 | Nvi­dia Dri­ver 333.11