3D, AMD, Companies, Hardware

AMD Launches the Low Profile Graphics Card for CAD Workstations

Today at Autodesk University 2015,  AMD unveiled the AMD FirePro™ W4300 low-profile graphics card solutions. These are designed for the best Computer-Aided Design (CAD) performance that fits both small form factor (SFF) and tower workstations.1 The AMD FirePro W4300 card expertly integrates a powerful GPU and 4GB of GDDR5 memory within a low-profile design for installation in SFF as well as full-sized systems. Organizations can now confidently simplify their IT management by standardizing on a single, capable professional graphics solution throughout their workstation deployment. The AMD FirePro W4300 professional graphics card is optimized for the latest CAD applications including Autodesk® AutoCAD, Inventor as well as Revit®,

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3D, AMD, Graphics, Hardware, VR World

AMD FirePro Will Power New Dell Precision Mobile Workstations

Earlier this week, AMD announced that the new Dell Precision 3510, 7510, and 7710 mobile workstations will be powered by AMD FirePro mobile GPUs, allowing for outstanding application performance. This comes as outstanding news for mobile workstation users. Most prominently, the ones in the Media and Entertainment field. These users will mostly benefit from the AMD FirePro W7170M GPU with outstanding graphics performance in the Dell Precision 7710 mobile workstation matched with almost 3 TFLOPS of single-precision GPU compute power for GPU-accelerated applications and workflows. For engineering and design professionals, Dell Precision mobile workstations with AMD FirePro W7170M, AMD FirePro W5170M, and AMD FirePro W5130M

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Analysis, Graphics, Hardware, VR World

Report: Graphics Add-In-Board Market on The Decline

GPU GTX Titan

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released a follow-up to its recent GPU sales report, this time specifically targeting the graphics add-in-board market. As the GPU sales report includes AMD’s (NYSE: AMD) APUs and many new Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CPUs which have GPU cores, the AIB report is a more specific barometer of the health of the video card market overall. According to JPR’s report, sales of AIBs declined 17.5% quarter-over-quarter and 17.6% year-over-year. In comparison, last year’s quarter-over-quarter rate for the same period was 5.5%. This comes in the face of an overall PC market that’s improving quarter-over-quarter by 1.3%. The attach rate to 36%,

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Graphics, Software Programs, VR World

Mantle Goes Beta, Still Not Quite Open to All…

AMD’s Mantle API, since its inception has been considered to be a fairly exclusive program with AMD getting hundreds of requests (if not thousands) from developers all around the world to test out Mantle. Obviously, a company of AMD’s size isn’t entirely capable of supporting thousands of developers, yet. AMD is still struggling to achieve profitability and cannot commit enough engineering resources to the Mantle team in order to really give Mantle the attention it needs. Yes, Mantle is a proprietary set of low-level APIs and does give game developers unparalleled flexibility and that is why so many developers are excited to take a crack

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