— AMD RDNA archi­tec­tu­re, indus­try-lea­ding 7nm pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy and advan­ced soft­ware fea­tures deli­ver lea­der­ship mul­ti­tas­king per­for­mance, ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy, and rock-solid sta­bi­li­ty to power deman­ding 2D and 3D pro­fes­sio­nal design applications —

— AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics offer supe­ri­or per­for­mance in real-world appli­ca­ti­ons and up to 32 per­cent lower power con­sump­ti­on¹ than the competition —

San­ta Cla­ra, Calif. 02/10/2020

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 work­sta­tion gra­phics card, deli­ve­ring the per­for­mance and advan­ced fea­tures deman­ded by today’s Design & Manu­fac­tu­ring and Archi­tec­tu­re, Engi­nee­ring & Con­s­truc­tion (AEC) pro­fes­sio­nals. AMD also announ­ced the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500M GPU, desi­gned and opti­mi­zed to power next-gene­ra­ti­on, high-per­for­mance pro­fes­sio­nal mobi­le workstations.

Today’s design and engi­nee­ring work­force pushes the boun­da­ries of pro­fes­sio­nal design appli­ca­ti­ons. The­se incre­asing­ly mobi­le pro­fes­sio­nals often use mul­ti­ple gra­phics-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons simul­ta­neous­ly and requi­re no-com­pro­mi­se per­for­mance to visua­li­ze, review and inter­act with their designs in real time.

AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics harness the high-per­for­mance, power-effi­ci­ent AMD RDNA archi­tec­tu­re, 7nm pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy, high-speed GDDR6 memo­ry, high-band­width PCI® Express 4.0 sup­port and advan­ced soft­ware fea­tures. Expan­ding the AMD fami­ly of high-per­for­mance pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics pro­ducts, they offer out­stan­ding per­for­mance in real-world appli­ca­ti­ons, rock-solid sta­bi­li­ty and superb ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy. In addi­ti­on, the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card deli­vers incre­di­ble mul­ti­tas­king per­for­mance even in deman­ding situa­tions, such as allo­wing pro­fes­sio­nals to con­ti­nue deve­lo­ping their designs while ren­de­ring a visua­liza­ti­on in the background.

 “Desi­gners and engi­neers requi­re a pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics solu­ti­on that deli­vers the per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy to meet today’s uni­que chal­lenges. Not­hing is more stressful than a dead­line, and AMD pro­fes­sio­nal gra­phics keep per­forming when you need them most,” said Scott Her­kel­man, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Rade­on Tech­no­lo­gies Group at AMD. “The AMD Rade­on Pro W5500 gra­phics card deli­vers excep­tio­nal power effi­ci­en­cy and lea­der­ship per­for­mance for 2D and 3D design appli­ca­ti­ons, enab­ling them to bet­ter visua­li­ze and inter­act with their designs in real time, explo­re new immersi­ve work­flows like vir­tu­al rea­li­ty and maxi­mi­ze productivity.”

The AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card and the Rade­on™ Pro W5500M GPU trans­form how pro­ject teams col­la­bo­ra­te by enab­ling immersi­ve, real-time visua­liza­ti­ons of design con­cepts to make quick and bet­ter infor­med decis­i­ons. Key capa­bi­li­ties and fea­tures include:

• High-Per­for­mance AMD RDNA Archi­tec­tu­re – Fea­tures a rede­si­gned geo­me­try engi­ne and com­pu­te units, deli­ve­ring up to 25 per­cent hig­her per­for­mance-per-clock than the pre­vious-gene­ra­ti­on Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re².
• Incre­di­ble Mul­ti­tas­king Per­for­mance – The AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card deli­vers out­stan­ding mul­ti­tas­king per­for­mance even in deman­ding situa­tions, offe­ring up to 10x bet­ter esti­ma­ted appli­ca­ti­on work­flow per­for­mance than the com­pe­ti­ti­on in the SPECview­perf® 13 bench­mark under a mul­ti­tas­king load.³
• Real-World Power Effi­ci­en­cy – The com­bi­na­ti­on of the power effi­ci­ent AMD RDNA archi­tec­tu­re and Rade­on™ Pro Soft­ware for Enterprise’s intel­li­gent power manage­ment tech­no­lo­gy enable the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card to pre­cis­e­ly sca­le to meet the power demands of pro­fes­sio­nal appli­ca­ti­ons. As a result, it con­su­mes up to 32 per­cent less sys­tem power on avera­ge in SOLIDWORKS® solid mode­ling work­flows than the com­pe­ti­ti­on¹.
• Pro­fes­sio­nal-Gra­de Soft­ware – Rade­on™ Pro Soft­ware for Enter­pri­se offers per­for­mance impro­ve­ments in each release and is opti­mi­zed for deman­ding 24/7 com­pu­ting envi­ron­ments, with exten­si­ve OEM plat­form and ISV cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on test­ing to deli­ver the qua­li­ty pro­fes­sio­nals demand. The latest dri­ver (20.Q1) achie­ves up to an esti­ma­ted 15 per­cent fas­ter geo­me­an score in the SPECview­perf® 13 bench­mark than ver­si­on 19.Q1 from 2019⁴.
• AMD Remo­te Work­sta­tion⁵ – Allows pro­fes­sio­nals to access their phy­si­cal work­sta­tions from vir­tual­ly any­whe­re with rich gra­phics expe­ri­en­ces using Citrix Vir­tu­al Apps and Desk­tops™ or Micro­soft® Remo­te Desktop.

	Com­pu­te Units	TFLOPS (FP32)	Maxi­mum Power Consumption	GDDR6	Memo­ry Bandwidth	Memo­ry Interface	Dis­play Out­puts (Dis­play­Po­rt™ 1.4)
AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500	22	Up to 5.35	125W	8GB	Up to 224 GB/s	128-bit	4 (dri­ves four 4K dis­plays or one 8K dis­play at 60Hz)
AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500M	22	Up to 4.79	85W	4GB	Up to 224 GB/s	128-bit	4

 

Availability

The AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card is expec­ted to be available from lea­ding retail­ers begin­ning mid-Febru­ary 2020, for an SEP of $399 USD. More infor­ma­ti­on is available on AMD.com. The AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500M GPU is expec­ted to be available in pro­fes­sio­nal mobi­le work­sta­tions begin­ning in Spring 2020.

The AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 gra­phics card will be show­ca­sed in the AMD booth 208 at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2020, taking place Febru­ary 10–12 in Nash­ville, Tennessee.

Supporting Resources

• Learn more about the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 and the Rade­on ™ Pro W5500M here
• Beco­me a fan of AMD on Face­book
• Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter
• Fol­low Rade­on™ Pro gra­phics on Twit­ter
• Dis­co­ver cer­ti­fied ISV appli­ca­ti­ons here

About AMD

For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.

Cautionary Statement

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) inclu­ding the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ta­ti­ons of the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500 work­sta­tion gra­phics card and the AMD Rade­on™ Pro W5500M GPU, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “intends,” “belie­ves,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “intends,” “plans,” “pro for­ma,” “esti­ma­tes,” “anti­ci­pa­tes,” or the nega­ti­ve of the­se words and phra­ses, other varia­ti­ons of the­se words and phra­ses or com­pa­ra­ble ter­mi­no­lo­gy. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this docu­ment are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this docu­ment and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces may limit AMD’s abili­ty to com­pe­te effec­tively; AMD reli­es on third par­ties to manu­fac­tu­re its pro­ducts, and if they are unable to do so on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies, AMD’s busi­ness could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; fail­ure to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts could nega­tively impact its finan­cial results; the suc­cess of AMD’s busi­ness is depen­dent upon its abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers while sup­port­ing and coin­ci­ding with signi­fi­cant indus­try tran­si­ti­ons; if AMD can­not gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing, it may face a cash short­fall and be unable to make all of its plan­ned invest­ments in rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer may have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; AMD’s receipt of reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts is depen­dent upon its tech­no­lo­gy being desi­gned into third-par­ty pro­ducts and the suc­cess of tho­se pro­ducts; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty may adver­se­ly impact AMD’s busi­ness and ope­ra­ting results; AMD’s ope­ra­ti­ons are sub­ject to poli­ti­cal, legal and eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters which could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res, may limit AMD’s abili­ty to export its pro­ducts to cer­tain cus­to­mers; AMD pro­ducts may be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties that could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on AMD; IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks could com­pro­mi­se AMD’s intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty or other sen­si­ti­ve infor­ma­ti­on, be cos­t­ly to reme­dia­te and cau­se signi­fi­cant dama­ge to its busi­ness and repu­ta­ti­on; AMD has a wafer sup­p­ly agree­ment with GF with obli­ga­ti­ons to purcha­se all of its micro­pro­ces­sor and APU pro­duct requi­re­ments, and a cer­tain por­ti­on of its GPU pro­duct requi­re­ments, from GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) with limi­t­ed excep­ti­ons. If GF is not able to satis­fy AMD’s manu­fac­tu­ring requi­re­ments, its busi­ness could be adver­se­ly impac­ted; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts could mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affect it; AMD’s ope­ra­ting results are sub­ject to quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; the agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the Secu­red Revol­ving Line of Cre­dit impo­se rest­ric­tions on AMD that may adver­se­ly affect its abili­ty to ope­ra­te its busi­ness; the mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold are high­ly com­pe­ti­ti­ve; the con­ver­si­on of the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 may dilute the owner­ship inte­rest of its exis­ting stock­hol­ders, or may other­wi­se depress the pri­ce of its com­mon stock; the demand for AMD’s pro­ducts depends in part on the mar­ket con­di­ti­ons in the indus­tries into which they are sold. Fluc­tua­tions in demand for AMD’s pro­ducts or a mar­ket decli­ne in any of the­se indus­tries could have a mate­ri­al adver­se effect on its results of ope­ra­ti­ons; AMD’s abili­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner is depen­dent upon third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; AMD depends on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents to sup­port its busi­ness; if AMD loses Micro­soft Corporation’s sup­port for its pro­ducts or other soft­ware ven­dors do not design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts, its abili­ty to sell its pro­ducts could be mate­ri­al­ly adver­se­ly affec­ted; and AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and AIB part­ners sub­jects it to cer­tain risks.  Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s Annu­al Report on Form 10‑K for the year ended Decem­ber 28, 2019.