AMD/ATI Announce a Stream Computing dedicated Graphic Card |
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AMD announced the future availability in January 2008 of the FireStream 9170, a RV670 GPU-based graphic card dedicated to Stream Computing (so lacking output).
Loaded with 2GB of DDR3, it should boost performance of workstations used for compute-intensive applications by scientists, engineers and consumers. A SDK will be available for allowing developers to benefit from this technology.
Hereafter are specifications:
Features
- Powered by next-generation ATI GPU from AMD
- Parallel processing architecture with 320 stream cores
- Up to 500 GFLOPs single precision performance
- 2GB GDDR3 on-board memory
- Double Precision Floating Point
- PCIe 2.0 x16 interface
- < 150W power consumption
- Memory export
- BIOS settings optimized for stream processing
- API and OS Support
- Windows XP, XP64
- Linux 32 and Linux 64
System Requirements
- PCI Express® based server or workstation with available x16 lane graphics slot
- 500W or greater power supply
- 512MB of system memory
Optimized for Computation
- Double-precision floating point for scientific and engineering codes
- 2GB on-board memory
- 320 stream cores drive up to 500 GFLOPS single-precision performance
- Asynchronous DMA, allowing data transfers without interrupting streams processor or CPU
Computing power of such system could put some well-known security codes in danger. Apple could take advantage of such card in a Mac Pro in order to boost performance of its Pro-dedicated video editing applications.
[translation by Linathael]
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