For product designers, simulation specialists, and manufacturers who want to reduce design time and costly errors, and increase innovation, the combination of Siemens NX and AMD FirePro™ desktop and mobile workstation graphics accelerators delivers ground-breaking features and performance for the most demanding NX user working with challenging design and engineering projects, while helping boost productivity throughout the design process.

SolidWorks® allows the creation of models larger than ever before. AMD FirePro’s optimized support for VBO allows 3D geometry to be directly stored and modified in the accelerator’s frame buffer memory. Such geometry can be rotated and manipulated more smoothly and accurately on the screen. As a result, designers gain the advantage of reduced CPU cycles and a boost in application performance increasing their productivity.

Together, Dassault Systèmes® and AMD have developed a better solution for designers and engineers. With combined innovations in CATIA V6 and the newest AMD FirePro™ workstation graphics, the overhead required to generate a model’s geometry is pushed out to the hardware, allowing mechanical designers to render models at maximum GPU performance levels (Dassault Systèmes built Vertex Buffer Objects (VBO) into the CATIA V6 OpenGL™ engine and AMD followed suit by optimizing its OpenGL driver).

Autodesk’s AutoCAD® software offers advanced toolsets for technical and architectural design pipelines. AMD FirePro™ professional graphics cards deliver reliable performance and technologies designed to empower AutoCAD® users with the best possible user experience and productivity. For demanding CAD/CAM/CAE workflows, AMD FirePro™ cards accelerate Autodesk AutoCAD workflows at the speed of thought.

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