For product designers, simulation specialists and manufacturers, there is an ongoing desire to increase innovation and reduce design time and costly errors. To help address that need, the new ATI FirePro^™ desktop and mobile workstation professional graphics delivers ground-breaking features and performance for Dassault Systèmes’ CATIA users working with challenging design and engineering projects, while helping boost productivity and pushing designs to the limits throughout the manufacturing process.

For example, the ATI FirePro^™ V8800 features 1600 Stream Processing units that offer up to 2.6 TeraFLOPS of power with 147.2 GB/sec of memory bandwidth¹. Using ATI Eyefinity technology, ²CATIA professionals can increase their desktop real estate and workflow productivity to view large scale models and multiple applications by running up to four independent and simultaneous 30-inch displays from a single card³.

The ATI FirePro^TM product range includes:
- Entry Level: Workstation quality for balance price and performance
ATI FirePro^™ V4800 Professional Graphics Cards
- Mid-Range: Advanced features and outstanding performance for complex visualization
ATI FirePro^™ V5800 Professional Graphics Cards
- High End: 4 to 6 outputs and extreme performance for the most demanding visualization and compute jobs
ATI FirePro^™ V8800 Professional Graphics Cards or ATI FirePro^™ V7800 Professional
Graphics Cards

AMD works with Dassault Systèmes to tune, optimize, and enable the real-time manipulation of very large PLM data sets as well as realistic rendered models using ATI FirePro graphics, giving manufacturing companies the ability to accurately model and analyze product performance characteristics while limiting the number of physical prototypes.

Antoine Reymond is Senior Strategic Alliances Manager at AMD. His posting is his own opinion and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such links sites and no endorsement is implied.

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¹Based on comparison of 1600 stream processors and 147.2GB/s memory bandwidth for ATI FirePro^™ V8800 vs. 240 CUDA processors and 102GB/s for NVIDIA QuadroFX 5800, as reported on http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_11761.html as of 3/16/10. As of 3/1/2010, ATI FirePro^™ V8800 has the highest number of stream processors of any graphics card.

²ATI Eyefinity technology can support up to 6 displays using a single enabled ATI FirePro^™ professional graphics card with Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. The number of displays may vary by board design and you should confirm exact specifications with the applicable manufacturer before purchase. ATI Eyefinity technology works with games that support non-standard aspect ratios, which is required for panning across multiple displays. To enable more than two displays, additional panels with native DisplayPort^™ connectors, and/or certified DisplayPort^™ adapters to convert your monitor’s native input to your cards DisplayPort™ or Mini-DisplayPort^™ connector(s), are required. Driver version 8.66 (Catalyst 9.10) or above is also required.

³Based on support for up to four displays using ATI Eyefinity technology on ATI FirePro^™ V8800 graphics vs. two displays for typical prior single-card technology