AMD Fire­Pro™ Pro­fes­sio­nal Gra­phics Empower New Desk­top and Mobi­le Work­sta­tions With Excep­tio­nal Per­for­mance and Productivity

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 09/08/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that next gene­ra­ti­on HP mobi­le and desk­top work­sta­tions will fea­ture the latest AMD Fire­Pro™ pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics, desi­gned for users who want to work at who­le new levels of detail, speed, respon­si­ve­ness and crea­ti­vi­ty. The HP Z840, Z640 and Z440 desk­top work­sta­tions now include AMD Fire­Pro™ W2100, W5100 and W7100 pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics. In addi­ti­on, the HP ZBook 15 G2 and 17 G2 mobi­le work­sta­tions will fea­ture AMD Fire­Pro™ M5100 and M6100 mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal graphics.

AMD Fire­Pro pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics offer out­stan­ding Open­CL™ per­for­mance powered by the award-win­ning AMD Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) Archi­tec­tu­re1 for pro­fes­sio­nal appli­ca­ti­on capa­bi­li­ty in a wide varie­ty of work envi­ron­ments such as pro­duct deve­lo­p­ment, mecha­ni­cal CAD (com­pu­ter-aided design), and engi­nee­ring as well as to artists, video edi­tors, pho­to­graph­ers and designers.

“Tog­e­ther, AMD and HP offer desk­top and mobi­le work­sta­tion users lea­ding-edge tech­no­lo­gies that pro­vi­de design, engi­nee­ring, and media and enter­tain­ment users with high per­for­mance, next-gene­ra­ti­on pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics pro­ces­sors for excep­tio­nal work­sta­tion per­for­mance,” said David Cum­mings, seni­or direc­tor and gene­ral mana­ger, Pro­fes­sio­nal Gra­phics at AMD. “HP desk­top and mobi­le work­sta­tion users can bene­fit from increased GPU memo­ry sizes, supe­ri­or mul­ti-dis­play 4K sup­port, qua­li­ty dri­vers and cer­ti­fied ISV appli­ca­ti­ons — all desi­gned to rede­fi­ne work­sta­tion per­for­mance, enab­ling users to do more.”

“AMD Fire­Pro pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics help our cus­to­mers with mis­si­on-cri­ti­cal pro­jects that demand pro­duc­ti­vi­ty fea­tures espe­ci­al­ly for com­pu­ter-aided design and con­tent crea­ti­on,” said Jeff Wood, vice pre­si­dent, World­wi­de Pro­duct Manage­ment, Com­mer­cial Solu­ti­ons Busi­ness Unit, HP. “With this in mind, we know our work­sta­tion cus­to­mers can rely on AMD Fire­Pro pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics with robust dri­ver and appli­ca­ti­on sup­port backed by the per­for­mance they demand.”

The next gene­ra­ti­on AMD Fire­Pro™ W‑series work­sta­tion gra­phics fami­ly brings at least 2x more gra­phics memo­ry over the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on, mul­ti-dis­play 4K capa­bi­li­ty, high com­pu­te per­for­mance, next gene­ra­ti­on API sup­port and PCIe® 3.0 sup­port, including:

• A power­house for both engi­nee­ring plus media and enter­tain­ment mul­ti­me­dia work­sta­tions, the AMD Fire­Pro W7100, with 8GB GDDR5 memo­ry, is desi­gned to boost per­for­mance and sup­port for 4K con­tent, inclu­ding video play­back, editing and transcoding;
• With 4GB of GDDR5 memo­ry and four dis­play out­puts on AMD Fire­Pro W5100 gra­phics cards, users can tack­le com­plex models, assem­blies, data sets and advan­ced visu­al effects with ease;
• Unli­ke con­su­mer gra­phics that are built and sold by mul­ti­ple com­pa­nies, AMD Fire­Pro™ W2100 gra­phics cards are desi­gned and built exclu­si­ve­ly by AMD, deli­ve­ring con­sis­tent qua­li­ty, per­for­mance and reliability.

Based upon simi­lar fea­tures and per­for­mance as the desk­top AMD Fire­Pro W‑series, AMD Fire­Pro™ M‑series mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics offer por­ta­bi­li­ty and fea­tures such as:

• Qua­li­ty Dri­ver Sup­port: Based on AMD GCN Archi­tec­tu­re, AMD Fire­Pro mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics are built for per­for­mance sup­port­ed by high-qua­li­ty soft­ware dri­vers that are fine­ly tun­ed to work opti­mal­ly with lea­ding work­sta­tion applications;
• Intel­li­gent Power Fea­tures: AMD Endu­ro™ Tech­no­lo­gy allows AMD Fire­Pro mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics to opti­mi­ze bat­tery life. The power fea­tures are inher­ent­ly dyna­mic, deli­ve­ring prompt per­for­mance when nee­ded and adjus­ting GPU requi­re­ments when in idle mode;
• Dis­play Sup­port: AMD Fire­Pro mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics offer sup­port for Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2a plus sup­port for ultra-high defi­ni­ti­on 4K displays.

In addi­ti­on to the­se sys­tem offe­rings, the AMD Fire­Pro W9100 is curr­ent­ly available on the HP Tes­ted and Cer­ti­fied list. AMD Fire­Pro W9100 offers super­com­pu­ting-class per­for­mance, enab­ling work­sta­tion users to tack­le com­plex mode­ling and simu­la­ti­on pro­jects with speed and agi­li­ty, or fly through edits, fil­ters and color cor­rec­tions, and pro­cess mul­ti­ple effects in real-time.

AMD Fire­Pro™ pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics will be available in new HP desk­top and mobi­le work­sta­tions later this month.

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1 The GCN Archi­tec­tu­re and its asso­cia­ted fea­tures (AMD Endu­ro™, AMD Zero­Co­re Power tech­no­lo­gy, DDM Audio, and 28nm pro­duc­tion) are exclu­si­ve to the AMD Fire­Pro™ W4170M, M4100, M5100 and M6100 mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics. Not all tech­no­lo­gies are sup­port­ed in all sys­tem con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons — check with your sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic model capabilities.