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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at SIGGRAPH 2010, AMD (NYSE: AMD - News) announced that its
latest generation of ATI FirePro™ professional graphics cards have received 47 application
certifications from leading ISVs. In addition, a soon to be released beta driver is expected to
deliver considerable performance gains on popular computer aided design (CAD) and digital content
creation (DCC) applications over the previous generation. End-users will have the opportunity to
experience the latest ATI FirePro professional graphics solutions at the show. Demonstrations will
showcase an extensive ecosystem of software partners and customers that bring to life superior
realism, workflow productivity and application performance.

“AMD is committed to delivering outstanding application performance in ATI FirePro graphics
solutions,” said Janet Matsuda, senior director of AMD Professional Graphics. “For example, our
latest driver update for ATI FirePro increases performance by as much as 81 percent1 over the
previous generation, and in less than four months since the launch of our current generation of ATI
FirePro graphics, nearly 50 applications have been certified.”

The new driver will offer users across the board performance increases for the latest generation ATI
FirePro graphics on the LightWave 3D subset of the new SPECviewperf® 11 benchmark, with the entry-
level ATI FirePro V3800 achieving a 62 percent performance gain and the ultra high-end ATI FirePro
V8800 achieving an 81 percent gain, compared to the previous driver2. For more information on how
ATI FirePro professional graphics measure up on SPECviewperf™ 10 and 11, please refer to this new
AMD blog post.

Application certification for ATI FirePro hardware by leading publishers assures professionals these
applications will perform reliably. Launched earlier this year, AMD’s latest ATI FirePro graphics3,
including ATI FirePro V3800, V4800, V5800, V7800, V8800 and M7820, have received certification for
47 partner applications from ANSYS, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, Luxology, PTC, Side Effects,
Siemens PLM and others. For more information on the latest ISV certifications please click here.

Supporting Resources

For more detail on AMD’s presence at SIGGRAPH 2010, including partner and customer activity, please
visit Command Your Creations
AMD @ Work blog post, Our Commitment to ATI FirePro™ Performance
Additional detail on ATI FirePro professional graphics can be found at http://www.amd.com/firepro
To receive regular updates on ATI FirePro, please follow us on Twitter @ATIFirePro
About AMD

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD - News) is an innovative technology company dedicated to
collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next generation of computing and
graphics solutions at work, home and play. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

Copyright 2010, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, FirePro,
Opteron and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

1 Based on SPECviewperf® 11 benchmark scores as tested by AMD performance labs for using NewTek
LightWave 3D® on ATIFirePro™ V8800. See endnote ii for system configuration and testing details.

2 Based on SPECviewperf® 11 benchmark scores as tested by AMD performance labs for using NewTek
LightWave 3D® on ATI FirePro™ V3800, V4800, V5800, V7800 and V8800. Testing compared ATI FirePro™
graphics driver version 8.76.2 vs. version 8.723.6. Testing performed with the following
configuration: HP Z400, Intel® Xeon® quad-core 1xW3570 @ 3.2 GHz, 4GB DDR3 memory, Microsoft®
Windows® 7 64-bit.

3 Please note ATI FirePro professional graphics hardware requires various drivers to be installed
when running ISV certified applications. Please visit the AMD ATI FirePro™ and ATI FireGL™ Certified
Applications page to identify and download drivers.