Amd Firestream

[Davros]

The AMD FireStream 9170 will be the world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology tailored for scientific and engineering calculations. Competitively priced at an MSRP of $1999 USD, it features up to 500 GFLOPS1 of compute power, rivalling many of today’s supercomputers, and providing dramatic acceleration for critical algorithms. This second generation Stream Processor is built with 55 nm process technology and consumes less than 1502 watts of power – delivering an exceptional performance per watt. In addition, the reduced heat dissipation allows it to function in dense design configurations. The FireStream 9170 is a single card solution with two GB of onboard GDDR3 memory to compute large datasets without CPU traffic. The asynchronous direct memory access (DMA) ensures data can flow freely without interrupting the stream processor or CPU.

more here:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal...ng=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view_popup

 

[NovemberMike]

The AMD FireStream 9170 will be the world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology tailored for scientific and engineering calculations. Competitively priced at an MSRP of $1999 USD, it features up to 500 GFLOPS1 of compute power, rivalling many of today’s supercomputers, and providing dramatic acceleration for critical algorithms. This second generation Stream Processor is built with 55 nm process technology and consumes less than 1502 watts of power – delivering an exceptional performance per watt. In addition, the reduced heat dissipation allows it to function in dense design configurations. The FireStream 9170 is a single card solution with two GB of onboard GDDR3 memory to compute large datasets without CPU traffic. The asynchronous direct memory access (DMA) ensures data can flow freely without interrupting the stream processor or CPU.

It is always interesting to see these things after getting used to looking at consumer level items...

 

[mhouston]

The 1502 is a formatting problem. it's 150W with a footnote about TDP

 

[Bludd]

Phew, because 1502W is insane.

They should have written it as 150W and had the footnote after that. It is silly writing it between.

 

[2900guy]

so its a r600 on 55 and tweaked a bit?

 

[_xxx_]

Wow, it has DMA! Welcome to the 80's!

 

[Tim Murray]

Already being discussed.