The entry-level AMD FirePro W2100, a replacement for the ageing FirePro V3900, is being touted to large engineering firms who want to kit out 100s or 1,000s of engineers with professional grade GPUs.ĪMD is pitching the card as a cost effective alternative to integrated Intel graphics and at £100 is certainly aggressive on pricing. It also adds in a good level of future proofing.
While it’s hard to imagine any CAD-centric graphics workflows using anywhere near this amount of GPU memory, 8GB does offer serious potential for GPU compute in simulation and ray trace rendering apps. Then, in the so-called mid-range, the FirePro W7100 takes things up to a whopping 8GB. Even the entry-level FirePro W2100 comes with 2GB, which should allow CAD users to load up all but the biggest models into GPU memory. The big story is that these cards are brimming with on-board memory double that of the previous generation. The entry-level FirePro W2100 and W4100, plus the mid-range FirePro W5100 and W7100 join the ultra high-end FirePro W9100 and high-end FirePro W8100 that was also launched earlier this year.
It has been close to six months since AMD released the FirePro W9100, but the graphics giant has now completed its next generation professional GPU family with the introduction of four new cards.
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