AMD FirePro

Get up to 3x More Performance for SolidWorks^® 2013¹

The latest AMD FirePro graphics cards were designed for advanced SolidWorks^® workflows and simultaneous engineering in mind, combining complex CAD modeling with sophisticated rendering and simulation (CAE). The graphics card driver is thoroughly tested, optimized and certified for SolidWorks 2012 and 2013.

It also features a number of SolidWorks-specific optimizations to ensure designers and engineers get the most out of their workstation. With the latest AMD FirePro driver available today, experience up to 3x graphics performance increase in SolidWorks^® 2013 when using the new AMD FirePro™ W-series graphics cards.

SolidWorks 2013 - with driver 9.003.3 (SP1 64-Bit)

Case Study

Learn how AMD FirePro™ professional graphics with SolidWorks gave RJ Herbert confidence in their designs. Click to download.

Real-time manipulations within SolidWorks

Fig40 shows real-time SolidWorks manipulations across 4 HD displays using the AMD FirePro W7000 graphics card.

Powerful Real-time previews with Realview™

AMD FirePro™ Professional Graphics unleashes the power of RealView^® and brings your models to life. SolidWorks^® 2012 now offers advanced shading in real time with RealView and Ambient Occlusion, which delivers outstanding depth and realism helping reduce the need for ray-traced rendering.

accurate designS with Anti‑Aliasing

The new GeometryBoost means high-quality features like Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) can be turned on in SolidWorks permanently.

FSAA helps remove coarse edges from contours of geometries in real-time. This results in high-quality visuals and amazingly accurate representation of designs.

Advanced Workflow Performance for CAE

AMD FirePro™ Professional Graphics helps accelerate your simulation. Enabled by OpenCL™, AMD FirePro™ Professional Graphics can be used to help accelerate calculations in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software such as Finite Element Analysis (FEA) – tasks traditionally carried out by CPUs. For example, the time taken to carry out structural and multiphysics analysis in the OpenCL™ version of Abaqus from DS Simulia can be cut using a high-end AMD FirePro™ Professional graphics card.

Superior HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY WITH MULTIPLE DISPLAYS

AMD FirePro™ Professional Graphics with AMD Eyefinity technology is the best choice your multi-display workflows². This helps support advanced design workflows, where SolidWorks users switch between applications including SolidWorks Simulation and PhotoView 360. Other tasks, such as part and assembly modeling, data management, email and spreadsheets are all available at the click of a button.

	Model size and complexity	Visualisation	Simulation	Datasheet Download	Replaces
AMD FirePro W7000					Quadro FX3800/4000
AMD FirePro W7900					Quadro FX3800/4000
AMD FirePro W5000					Quadro FX1800/2000
AMD FirePro W5900					Quadro FX1800/2000
AMD FirePro W4900					Quadro FX580/600

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¹A direct comparison of AMD FirePro V5900 with AMD FirePro W5000 in SolidWorks 2013 shows that the new AMD FirePro W5000 offers up to 50% more performance, in some cases even more. Benchmark examples include the Rally car model in Shaded+RealView+Shadow (fps) mode at 37.7% increase in performance and the Engine model in Shaded+RealView+Shadow (fps) at 98.8% increase in performance.

²AMD Eyefinity technology can support multiple displays using a single enabled AMD FirePro™ professional graphics card; the number of supported displays varies by card model. Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Linux® is required in order to support more than 2 displays. Depending on the card model, native DisplayPort™ connectors and/or certified DisplayPort™ active or passive adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your card’s DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort™ connector(s) may be required. See www.amd.com/firepro for details.

Get up to 3x More Performance for SolidWorks® 2013¹