Dassault's SolidWorks 3DExperience World event runs this week, from February 11-14 this year at the Kay Bailey Convention Center in Dallas, and AMD is proud to be a sponsor of the show. Dassault develops design, modeling, and manufacturing software used by millions of customers across the world. Applications like CATIA® and SolidWorks® offer local installation options or cloud-based deployments and can scale to meet the needs of anything from a small business to a large industrial engineering firm.
AMD supports Dassault SolidWorks across the AMD Radeon™ PRO line of GPUs, AMD Ryzen™ PRO mobile workstation processors, and the recently launched AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 7000 WX-Series of processors. The Radeon™ PRO W7600 provides its users with leadership performance offering up to 43 percent faster performance than the competition in the SPECapc® SolidWorks 2022 4K test, while SolidWorks Visualize natively integrates support for AMD Radeon ProRender, a physically-based rendering engine with support for hardware accelerated ray tracing and an AI-accelerated denoiser.
On the CPU side of things, the AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO series is designed to handle the compute demands of entire workflows, not just single applications. The Threadripper PRO 7000WX-Series of chips that debuted in late 2023 are based on the “Zen 4” architecture, which offers a 13% improvement to IPC (Instructions per clock cycle).¹ The 7000 WX-Series now tops out at 96 cores (up from 64), can address up to 1TB of RAM, offers 128 lanes of PCIe® 5.0 connectivity and eight DDR5 memory channels at up to DDR5-5200. These new Threadripper PRO processors are a huge step forward for workstations in every regard and they provide the performance engineers need to run multi-threaded and lightly-threaded applications simultaneously. SolidWorks also runs up to 43% faster on the Threadripper PRO compared to the competition.² These gains are not limited to the high end of the stack; the Ryzen PRO 7040 series chalks up multiple performance wins across a broad range of tasks as well.
AMD Ryzen™ PRO 7040 Series processors use the same “Zen 4” architecture as the Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series but deploy it in a very different context. While performance is a top consideration across both mobile and desktop workstations, mobile systems must contend with factors a desktop workstation isn’t limited by. Balancing laptop thickness, battery capacity, and CPU cooling is a delicate dance, and nailing the steps requires mobile workstation CPUs to be efficient both at idle and under load. This is particularly important when the system is on-battery – an engineer walking the factory floor may need to consult a project file in an area where AC power isn’t readily available. The more efficient the CPU, the more flexibility OEMs and end users have to balance between these factors.
AMD Ryzen™ PRO 7040 Series and Threadripper PRO workstation CPUs don’t just deliver strong 3D CAD/CAM performance and excellent battery life efficiency. Both product families offer strong support for AI workloads, helping ensure that that current and future software packages that offer AI-accelerated capabilities will run well. AMD led the market with the introduction of the first NPU integrated on an x86 CPU with Ryzen™ 7040 Series processors and continues to forge partnerships with ISVs and system vendors to enable AI and AI PCs as the technology becomes more popular.
This discussion of AI might seem a little premature – and it might be, depending on which Dassault applications you use and how your company decides to integrate AI into its workflows when such services are available. But people don’t just buy workstations for how they will perform in the present moment, they buy workstations that they believe will provide excellent performance into the future.
The AMD Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series and Ryzen™ PRO 7040 Series cover different product markets and address different customers, but they share a common commitment to providing performance you can count on over the long term. Despite their differences, these mobile and… much-less-mobile workstation processors are designed to leverage the most effective technologies and the latest CPU architectures to help you model, design, and render, wherever and whenever you need to do so.
Enjoy the show!
1: RPL-005: Testing as of 15 August, 2022, by AMD Performance Labs using the following hardware: AMD AM5 Reference Motherboard with AMD Ryzen™ 7 7700X with G.Skill DDR5-6000C30 (F5-6000J3038F16GX2-TZ5N) with AMD EXPO™ loaded, AMD AM4 Reference Motherboard with AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X and DDR4-3600C16. Processors fixed to 4GHz frequency with 8C16 enabled and evaluated with 22 different workloads. ALL SYSTEMS configured with NXZT Kraken X63, open air test bench, Radeon™ RX 6950XT (driver 22.7.1 Optional), Windows® 11 22000.856, AMD Smart Access Memory/PCIe® Resizable Base Address Register (“ReBAR”) ON, Virtualization-Based Security (VBS) OFF. Results may vary. RPL-005
2: SPP-15: Based on AMD performance lab testing as of August, 2023 using the SPECapc for SolidWorks 2022 CPU composite metric to compare the performance of the full stack of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and the AMD 5965WX and 5995WX processors in a reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win11 vs. similarly configured BOXX workstations with the full stack of Intel Xeon w-3400 series and the Intel w7-2495X and the Intel w7-2465X processors. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Results may vary. SPP-15.
SPP-11: Based on AMD performance lab testing as of August, 2023, using the Chaos V-ray benchmark to compare the performance of the full stack of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO WX-Series processors and the AMD 5965WX and 5995WX processors in a reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win11 vs. similarly configured BOXX workstations with the full stack of Intel Xeon w-3400 series and the Intel w7-2495X and the Intel w7-2465X processors. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Results may vary. SPP-11.
SPP-17: Based on AMD performance labs testing as of August, 2023, using the Cadalyst AutoCAD Benchmark 2022 benchmark to compare the performance of the full stack of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO WX-Series processors and the AMD 5965WX processor in a reference system configured with 8x32GB DDR5, NVIDIA Quadro RTX A5000 graphics, 1TB SSD, Win11 vs. similarly configured BOXX workstations with the full stack of Intel Xeon w-3400 series and the Intel w7-2495X and the Intel w7-2465X processors. Workstation manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. SPP-17.