AMD's premier workstation card examined. AMD is most commonly known as the provider of consumer Radeon GPUs and a wide range of APUs and CPUs for mainstream and enthusiast PC desktops and laptops. But just like rival Nvidia, AMD has a professional range of graphics cards designed for the workstation market.

Such graphics cards are known as FirePro and are based on very similar architectures to their consumer Radeon cousins, but they're different insofar as the software is validated for applications used in the fields of compute, life sciences, engineering and design.

The professional nature of the intended market means people are willing to pay for the privilege of enhanced reliability, and it's an area that AMD, right now, is underrepresented in. Latest research indicates that Nvidia has an 75 per cent market share leaving just 25 per cent to AMD.