New AMD FirePro GPUs Bring Hardcore Performance to New Mac Pro

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Apples new Mac Pro isn’t just revolutionary in its looks, but has shown that Apple is serious about delivering performance to its pro customers. The heart of its superior graphics capabilities is the AMD FirePro GPU family. AMD has just announced new dual AMD FirePro models, specially for the new Mac Pro.


The AMD FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer unmatched compute power for the a wide range of applications. Mac Pro users can look forward to edit full-resolution 4K video and simultaneously render effects in the background, thanks to the industry-adopted OpenCL support. The GPUs can also power up to three high-resolution 4K displays.

The new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architecture – designed to intelligently manage rendering and compute workloads.

The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for the new Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, with configurations topping 7 teraflops of computing power.

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The new Mac Pro features quad-core or 6-core dual GPU Intel Xeon E5 processors, up to 16GB 1866Mhz DDR3 ECC memory, 256 PCIe-based flash storage, Thunderbolt 2 and dual AMD FirePro GPUs. Prices of the new Mac Pro start from RM9,699 and ships in February 2014.

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