AMD FirePro™ professional graphics is certified and optimized for NX 8.5 and enables advanced CAD/CAM/CAE workflows with high performance and reliability.
Creating a Reliable Platform for Design Innovation
From start to finish, creating an efficient product development cycle has never been so critical. Great lengths are taken by many industries – including automotive, aerospace, consumer products and electronics - to create innovative and better quality products. Not only this, many companies face commercial challenges in reducing design and production costs while getting the product as quickly to market as possible.
Many design engineers today rely on NX from Siemens PLM Software, which provides a professional environment to design, manipulate, simulate and analyze product assemblies. High quality, real-time 3D modeling is essential to the entire product development process, with many assemblies having hundreds or even thousands of components. AMD FirePro™ professional graphics cards are designed and built for this purpose, with extensive testing and certifications by Siemens and AMD to ensure the highest level of performance.
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Greater Productivity and Collaboration with AMD Eyefinity Technology
Product development workflows have changed significantly over recent years. Working with multiple applications is common in many development workflows with design, simulation, data management and collaboration all happening in unison.
It’s also quite common to see design engineers throughout different stages of the product development line, to require a holistic view of a product assembly, while they work on the smaller component parts of the design. This provides engineers with a better understanding of the product and can help reduce design flaws.
AMD FirePro graphics cards feature AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology that empowers engineers to view multiple applications and product assemblies across three, four or even six high-resolution monitors all from a single graphics card. Designers can now relate product components to its corresponding Bill of Materials from Teamcenter, collaborate easily with small teams while retaining a holistic view of design and its components.
REALISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF DESIGNS IN REAL-TIME WITH ADVANCED STUDIO
Advanced Studio mode, a feature within NX, provides engineers with a realistic representation of their 3D models by applying complex shaders and lighting in “real-time”, without the need for time-consuming renders. This helps engineers analyse and visualise what the assembly would look like at a much earlier stage of the product development cycle.
However, viewing large assemblies with increased realism puts a higher demand on the GPU, reducing performance, interactivity and application responsiveness. Thanks to the large frame buffer memory and advanced GCN GPU architecture, AMD FirePro graphics cards are able to help increase the visual quality inside the NX modeling environments virtually without any loss of model interactivity. Users no longer have to manage a trade-off between visual fidelity and model complexity.
NX8 Internal Benchmarks - True Shading Mode
Leading Edge Software Needs Leading Edge Hardware
AMD FirePro professional graphics cards are packed full of leading-edge technologies to help ensure compatibility with the latest software applications and supporting system hardware. Built on AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture, the world’s first 28nm GPU, AMD FirePro professional graphics provide efficient, multi-channel processing of rendering and computational commands. This provides a high performing platform for the entire Siemens PLM Software suite.
The latest AMD professional graphics cards also feature support for PCI Express 3.0, for increased data transfer between the system and the graphics card, helping reduce loading and rendering times of large assemblies. AMD FirePro graphics cards are available with 2GB, 4GB and even 6GB of GDDR5 on-board (frame buffer) memory, so engineers can visualize and simulate complex assemblies, while working with multiple applications which can help accelerate their product development workflows.
Using DisplayPort 1.2 as the standard for display connectivity, allows the use of the latest-generation of 4K Ultra High-Definition (UHD) displays with over 8 Megapixels of resolution. This provides never-before-seen pixel density from a single workstation display for maximum detail of your dataset.
