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AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards designed for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer aided design (CAD), Computer generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High performance computing/GPGPU applications. The GPU chips on FirePro branded graphics cards are identical to the ones used on Radeon branded graphics cards. The end products (i. e. the graphics card) differentiate substantially by the provided graphics device drivers and through the available professional support for the software. The product line is split into two categories: "W" workstation series focusing on workstation and primarily focusing on graphics and display, and "S" server series focused on virtualization and GPGPU/High performance computing. The release of the Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016 and the announcement of the Radeon Pro WX Series in July 2016 marked the succession of Radeon Pro as AMD's professional workstation graphics card solution. The first FireGL board used the 3Dlabs GLINT 3D processor chip. Deprecated brand names are ATI FireGL, ATI FirePro 3D, and AMD FireStream. In July 2016, AMD announced it would be replacing the FirePro brand with Radeon Pro for workstations. The new brand for servers is Radeon Instinct.

AMD Eyefinity can support multi monitor set ups. One graphics card can drive up to a maximum of six monitors; the supported number depends on the distinct product and the number of DisplayPort displays. The device driver facilitates the configuration of diverse display group modes.

The FirePro line is designed for compute intensive, multimedia content creation (such as video editors), and mechanical engineering design software (such as CAD programs). Their Radeon counterparts are suited towards video games and other consumer applications. Because they use the same drivers (Catalyst) and are based on the same architectures and chipsets, the major differences are essentially limited to price and double precision performance. However, some FirePro cards may have major feature differences to the equivalent Radeon card, such as ECC RAM and differing physical display outputs. Since the 2007 series, high end and ultra end FireGL/FirePro products (based on the R600 architecture) have officially implemented stream processing. The Radeon line of video cards, although present in hardware, did not offer any support for stream processing until the HD 4000 series where beta level OpenCL 1.0 support is offered, and the HD 5000 series and later, where full OpenCL 1.1 support is offered.

HSA is intended to facilitate the programming for stream processing and/or GPGPU in combination with CPUs and DSPs. All models implementing the Graphics Core Next microarchitecture support hardware features defined by the HSA Foundation and AMD has provided corresponding software.

ModelLaunchCoreFab (nm)Transistors (million)Die size (mm2)Bus interfaceCore clock (MHz)Memory clock (MHz)Core config1FillrateMemoryAPI compliance (version)TDP / idle (watts)NotesPixel (GP/s)Texture (GT/s)Size (MB)Bandwidth (GB/s)Bus typeBus width (bit)Direct3DOpenGL (OpenCL)FirePro 22502007 01 01RV51680107100PCIe x1/x166005002:4:4:42.40.325632DDR22569.0c2.1 (no)20/11DMS 59 for dual DVI D outputFirePro 22702011 01 31Cedar GL (RV810)4029259PCIe 2.1 x1/x1660060080(16×5):8:4:12.44.851210249.6GDDR36411.04.3 (1.2)15/817/8DMS 59 for dual output: DP or DVI I or D subFirePro 2450 Multi View2009 01 012x RV620 (Terascale 1)552x 1812x 61PCIe 2.0 x1/x166006002x 40(8×5):4:4:12.44.851238.4GDDR325610.13.3 (APP)36/182x VHDCI for quad output: DVI I or D subFirePro 2460 Multi View,2010 04 01Cedar GL (RV810) (Tera scale2)4029259PCIe 2.1 x1650050080(16×5):8:4:12.04.051232GDDR56411.04.3 (1.2)17/134x Mini DP for quad output: DP or DVI D, UVD2, PowerPlay, Eyefinity