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AMD outs FirePro S9150 with 16GB GDDR5 RAM

Advanced Micro Devices has recently announced its new monster GPU dubbed as the AMD FirePro S9150 which is touted to go toe-to-toe with the NVidia Tesla K40 in the server GPU category.

AMD FirePro S9150 philippines

Equipped with a whopping 16GB of GDDR5 RAM and 320GB/s memory bandwidth, the FirePro S9150is expected to bring incredible graphics performance which is crucial for the supercomputers that it will cater to.

AMD was also keen to point out that the FirePro S9150 only requires the same maximum power (235 watts) as the Tesla K40, yet delivers better single precision floating-point performance (5.07 TFLOPS vs 4.29 TFLOPS) and double precision floating-point performance (2.53 TFLOPS vs 1.43 TFLOPS).

AMD FirePro S9150 specs:
GPU Engine:
Architecture: GCN 1.1
Stream Cores: 2,816
TFR: 163.7GT/Sec
Memory:
Bus Type: GDDR5
Bus Width: 512-bit
Capacity: 16GB
Bandwidth: 320GB/sec
Bus Interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
Power and Performance:
TDP: 235 watts
5.07 TFLOPS (Single Precision) / 2.53 TFLOPS (Double Precision)

Various partners, including ASUS and Gigabyte, have already expressed their interests on the new FirePro S9150 and it will most likely be available on the third quarter of the year. Official pricing has not been announced at the time of writing.

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This article was written by Ronnie Bulaong, a special features contributor and correspondent for YugaTech. Follow him on Twitter @turonbulaong.

5 Responses

  1. Avatar for rich_kid rich_kid says:

    pwede to sa pisonet business ko. wala akong budget eh

  2. Avatar for tuko tuko says:

    mga ungas. wala kayong alam. nanghuhula lang kayo. mga feeling pogi.

  3. Avatar for johndoe johndoe says:

    You are wrong! This kind of GPU is use for High Performance Computing (HPC) on servers.

  4. Avatar for istingki istingki says:

    This is not a server GPU. Servers don’t need a high end GPU. This is for workstations on graphics environment.

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