AMD FirePro™ professional graphics and AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology are optimized and certified for CATIA® by Dassault Systèmes® and enable a superior 3D design experience.
Advanced PLM workflows with optimized and certified performance
For three decades Dassault Systèmes (DS) has been a world leader in 3D modeling and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. CATIA and supporting applications from Dassault Systèmes enable engineers and industrial designers to digitally define and simulate products, processes and resources. These applications help customers to bring their innovative products to market faster.
AMD FirePro™ professional graphics cards are thoroughly tested and certified for CATIA by Dassault Systèmes for optimized performance and reliability. AMD is the right choice for those looking to deploy CATIA V6 powered by the latest GPU technology with professional-grade performance and reliability.
“The impressive graphics performance of the new certified line of AMD FirePro™ graphics cards will amaze CATIA® and ENOVIA DMU users. AMD FirePro™ delivers the exceptional realism, accuracy, and power needed to help improve the efficiency and productivity of our customers.” Jerome Maillot, R&D; 3DVIA Technology Director, V6 User Experience
Innovation, Performance and Reliability
As DS establishes 3D computer graphics as the universal language for both businesses and consumers, the company exploits the latest developments in hardware in order to deliver a high performance and high productivity experience to its customers. Such hardware includes the AMD FirePro™ family of professional graphics solutions that features innovative GPU technologies, cutting-edge performance and high reliability.
For more information on the latest AMD FirePro™ graphics drivers for CATIA, please click here.
CATbench Normalized Score
System Specs: Dell T7600, Dual Xeon E52665, 32 GB of RAM, Windows 7 64bit, AMD driver: 9.003.3.3, Nvidia Driver: 320.00
Advanced GPU Architecture for 3D Graphics and Compute
The AMD FirePro W-series of professional graphics cards uses the latest generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architecture from AMD. This design efficiently balances compute tasks with 3D workloads, enabling multi-tasking that is designed to optimize utilization and maximize performance.
In order to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the GPU for engineering analysis and simulation, AMD graphics cards are also optimized for OpenCL™.
Enabled by OpenCL™, the AMD FirePro™ GPU can be used to help accelerate calculations in engineering analysis and simulation,– tasks traditionally carried out only by CPUs. For example, the time taken to perform a structural and multi-physics analysis in the OpenCL™ version of Abaqus from Dassault Systemes SIMULIA can be cut significantly using a high-end AMD FirePro™ Professional graphics card, like the AMD FirePro W8000 or W9000.
Advanced Workflow Performance for realistic simulation
Interactive Performance with Realistic Materials and Large Assemblies
The AMD FirePro™ W7000 graphics card – featuring 4GB GDDR5 of graphics memory – has the largest frame buffer memory in its class, which is 33% more than what the closest competing solution has to offer. On top, AMD has implemented PCI Express 3.0 across the entire W-series product stack. PCI Express 3.0 increases the bandwidth between the workstation system and the graphics card to 32GB/s.
Users benefit from these improvements with unmatched application responsiveness when using advanced textures and materials on large data sets 2.
Ahead of the curve with PCI Express 3.0
AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology and Support for 4K Displays
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology enables an AMD FirePro graphics card to drive three, four and even six monitors via DisplayPort 1.2 from a single graphics card(1), at up to 4K x 2K resolution for each output. View your designs at ultra-high resolutions for increased design accuracy realism and better insight. Or, you can speed up your workflow by using your extra screens to view additional applications, running CATIA and other DS applications simultaneously.
CATIA & AMD FirePro Recommended Configurations
| Model size and complexity | Visualisation | Simulation | PLM Workflows | Datasheet Download | Replaces | |
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| AMD FirePro W9100 |
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6 display outputs | Download | Quadro K5000/6000 |
| AMD FirePro W7000 |
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4 display outputs | Download | Quadro FX3800/4000 |
| AMD FirePro W5000 |
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2 display outputs | Download | Quadro FX1800/2000 |
Recommended for CATIA
| AMD FirePro W5000 | AMD FirePro W7000 | AMD FirePro W9100 | |
Geometry Performance |
1.65 B Tris/s |
1.85 B Tris/s |
3.7 B Tris/s |
Texture Support |
2 GB |
4 GB |
16 GB (ECC) |
Memory Bandwidth |
103 GB/s |
154 GB/s |
320 GB/s |
Compute Performance |
1.27 TFLOPS |
2.4 TFLOPS |
5.24 TFLOPS |
AMD Eyefinity Technology |
3 (6*), 2x DP 1.2 + DVI-I |
4 (6*), 4x DP 1.2 |
6, 6x mini-DP 1.2 |
Genlock/Framelock |
Yes/Yes |
Yes/Yes |
Yes/Yes |
Ready for 4K (UHD) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
System Interface |
PCIe 3.0, Single-Slot |
PCIe 3.0, Single-Slot |
PCIe 3.0, Dual-Slot |
