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RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Redesigned 1 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Redesigned. Refined. Supercharged. Total Driver Releases WHQL Driver Releases Games Supported and Optimized Downloads 29 8 28+ 85M+ From AMD.com Source: AMD internal data 2 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST as of November 10th, 2016. Radeon Software User Satisfaction 4.5/5 User Approval Rating Source: AMD internal data. 4.4/5 approval rating indicates most recent user satisfaction. internal data obtained November 7th, 2016. 3 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST 4 | RADEONRADEON SOFTWARE SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER| UNDER NDA UNTIL NDA UNTILDEC 8, 9DEC AM EST8, 9 AM EST How Developers Create DirectX®12 is the Fastest Growing API Ever 15+ Titles Available Now Expected Over 50 DirectX®12 Titles in 2017 Source: August Steam Hardware & Software Survey: 2016 http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey, obtained September 29th, 2016. See endnotes for details. 5 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Rediscovering Everything Work. Play. Create. Experiences Technologies Millions of open source projects* Gaming VR Deep Pixels Low level APIs Game Engines Open Source Use of third party marks/products is for informational purposes only and no endorsement of or by AMD is intended or implied. 6 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST *Source: https://github.com/open-source Catalyst Omega Crimson Edition Highest Rated Radeon Software Ever 2014 2015 2016 Third Annual Big Software Release 7 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST SOFTWARE SOFTWARE Crimson ReLive Edition AMD’s advanced graphics software for enabling high-performance gaming, professional grade stability and engaging VR experiences 8 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST How Developers Collaborate The Ever Increasing Community of Open Standards Developers VLC Media Player LibreOffice Mozilla Firefox® WordPress CentOS® MySQL® Blender™ ubuntu GIMP Notepad++ Bugzilla Mozilla Thunderbird™ and Over a Million Other Open Source Projects* 9 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST *Source: https://github.com/open-source Create. Collaborate. Share. Radeon Loom Radeon Rays OCAT Depth of Field TressFX 4.0 AMF 1.4 Hz FPS 10 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST www.GPUOpen.com Enabling Developers through Open Source 70 82 SDKs/Samples/Libraries/Tools Developer Blogs 11 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Status: November 9th, 2016 A Stitch In Real-time Beta Preview Available on GPUOpen Now 360⁰ 360⁰ Uses AMD’s open source to 4K x 2K to 8K x 4K implementation of Stitched output in Real- Stitched offline output Time using DirectGMA 24 31 12 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Open Capture and Analytics Tool (OCAT) Third Party Open Source Benchmarking Tool Hz FPS For Illustrative Purposes Only User Friendly Interface, Exportable CSV Files, Support for DirectX®11, DirectX®12 and Vulkan 13 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Depth of Field Powerful Cinematic Focus Tool Low performance impact For Illustrative Purposes Only Support for DirectX®12, Source Code Available Now 14 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST TressFX 4.0 Adding High Fidelity Hair Interaction For Illustrative Purposes Only Increase Developer Control, Scalable Rendering and Supported in DirectX®12 15 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Advanced Media Framework 1.4 Expanding AMF H.265 Encoding H.264 H.265 16 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST For Illustrative Purposes Only How We Engage VR is Quickly Becoming Mainstream 2016 2.5M 600+ 250 000 VR HMDs VR Games 360º Videos on Facebook Source: IDC, Steam, Sony, Facebook, obtained September 29th, 2016. See endnotes for details. 17 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST LiquidVR: Affinity Multi-GPU Scalable Experience with Multiple GPUs Left GPU 1 Up to 20x Lower frame re-projection rate on dual vs. single GPU 2 Radeon RX 480’s1 Right Supported by Radeon VR Ready Premium & VR Ready 18 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Creator graphics cards. See endnotes for details. LiquidVR: MultiView & MultiRes Rendering Draw Rendering Low Pixel Density Left Eye Right Eye High Pixel Density For Illustrative Purposes Only For Illustrative Purposes Only Optimized Rendering Optimized rendering resolution for Low Processing Overhead for enhanced performance Supported by Radeon VR Ready Premium & VR Ready 19 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Creator graphics cards. See endnotes for details. LiquidVR: TrueAudio Next Truly Immersive Audio Dynamically-derived Real-time Physics Supported by Radeon VR Ready Premium & VR Ready 20 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Creator graphics cards. See endnotes for details. AMD LiquidVR™ Technology Intuitive. Immersive. Interactive. MultiView & MultiRes Affinity Multi-GPU TrueAudio Next Rendering Supported by Radeon VR Ready Premium & VR Ready 21 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Creator graphics cards. See endnotes for details. Radeon Technologies Group is Fully Behind 22 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Powerful. Reliable. Certified. 23 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST A powerful physically-based rendering engine that helps enable creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images Plug-ins and Native Integration with a selection of leading 3D content creation tools * (beta) (beta*) Rhino (beta) *Blender plug-in beta availability in Q4. Cinema 4D integration coming in 2017. Supports: Windows®, macOS, Linux® 24 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Game Engine Integration Adopting New Technologies into Professional Workflows Low-level APIs are empowering Game Engines for real-time professional content creation Compatible with: Radeon™ Pro WX series, Radeon Pro Duo, AMD FirePro™ W series products. 25 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST LiquidVR™ Support New AMD LiquidVR™ Technology for Professional Graphics Compatible with: Radeon™ Pro WX 7100, Radeon Pro Duo, AMD FirePro™ W9100. Supports: Windows® 7/10 26 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Enabling VR Workflows With Professional VR Applications VR Design & Engineering VR Animation & Filmmaking VR Game Engines VR CAD Visualization Software VR Viewer Software and 360 Video Tools Unreal Engine and Unity VR Editors AUTODESK LIVE Use of third party marks/products is for informational purposes only and no endorsement of or by AMD is intended or implied. Compatible with: Radeon™ Pro WX 7100, Radeon Pro Duo, AMD FirePro™ W9100. Supports: Windows® 7/10 27 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Radeon Pro Software Linux Driver Combines the Best of Both Worlds for Linux® Professional Graphics Open-Source Core Linux Driver Proprietary Radeon Pro Linux Driver FreeSync 1.0 DirectGMA Vulkan™ for RHEL Performance CentOS Compatible with: Radeon™ Pro WX series, Radeon Pro Duo, AMD FirePro™ W series products. Supports: Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, CentOS® 28 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Commitment to Updates for Enterprise Quarterly Feature, Performance and Stability Improvements 4th Thursday of Each Quarter Longevity, Stability and Performance Prioritized Support* Compatible with: Radeon™ Pro WX series, Radeon Pro Duo, AMD FirePro™ W series products. Supports: Windows® 7/10, Linux® *AMD will work with ISV & OEM partners to provide top of the queue engineering support for Enterprise users. 29 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Stability Unprecedented Driver Quality and Reliability 2x 3x 1.5x More OEM Platform Testing* More ISV Certification Testing* More Stress Testing* *AMD internal data, testing of Radeon Pro 16.Q4 Enterprise Driver compared to FirePro™ 14.502.1019 driver. 30 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Radeon Pro Software Certifications AMD is Certified on The Leading ISV Applications Professionals Use CAD & Media & Engineering Entertainment Others Others Use of third party marks/products is for informational purposes only and no endorsement of or by AMD is intended or implied. 31 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Performance Year Over Year Performance Leads in Key Applications Radeon Pro Software SPECviewperf 12 3 Driver Performance Comparison 30% 2 17%1 18% 100% PTC Creo FirePro™ W7100 Siemens NX FirePro™ W7100 Dassault Catia FirePro™ W7100 14.502.1019 Driver Crimson ReLive Edition Results are based on November 2016 internal testing of preliminary driver and may vary with use of final driver. See endnotes for details. 32 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Performance WX Series Performance Leads in Key Applications Radeon™ Pro WX 5100 Graphics Radeon™ Pro WX 7100 Graphics Radeon Pro Software SPECviewperf 12 Hardware Performance Comparison 80%6 5 67%4 70% 9 8 43% 7 38% 32% 100% Autodesk Maya W5100 Siemens NX W5100 Dassault Catia W5100 Autodesk 3ds Max W7100 PTC Creo W7100 Dassault Catia W7100 vs. WX 5100 vs. WX 5100 vs. WX 5100 vs. WX 7100 vs. WX 7100 vs. WX 7100 FirePro™ W5100 16.12 Radeon™ Pro WX 5100 16.12 AMD FirePro™ W7100 16.12 Radeon™ Pro WX 7100 16.12 Results are based on November 2016 internal testing of preliminary driver and may vary with use of final driver. See endnotes for details. 33 | RADEON SOFTWARE | CONFIDENTIAL | UNDER NDA UNTIL DEC 8, 9 AM EST Virtualized Graphics Now With vSphere 6.5 Support One Driver for All Certifications No Licensing Fees Deterministic Performance Across Multiple VMs Creo + SOLID EDGE $ Use of third party marks/products is for informational purposes only and no endorsement of or by AMD is intended or implied.
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