AMD announces FireStream high performance stream processor

Brian Ambrozy 8 Nov, 2007 at 1:45pm ET Article published in Tech

AMD today announced their new 55nm FireStream 9170 “science GPU”. This $2000 card will contain a GPU, 2gb of DDR3, and an accompanying SDK to develop stream code for the beast. With low power requirements, they claim that it is designed for high density, high performance computing and is capable of up to 500 GFLOPs per card.

We here at ICHQ highly doubt you’ll be seeing one of these sold as a gaming card. Now, if anyone wants to shell out $2K for a dedicated folding card, let us know, and we’ll offer you all the moral support that we can.

Comments

8 Nov 2007 ~ 4:14pm SPIKE09 This thread is useless without links :bigggrin:
8 Nov 2007 ~ 4:51pm primesuspect AMD Press Room link.
9 Nov 2007 ~ 1:13pm GHoosdum This thread is useless without AMD providing us with free hardware to review!
9 Nov 2007 ~ 2:26pm Leonardo AMD pressroom? Hmm, still worthless, until independent hardware reviewers have it in their hand.
9 Nov 2007 ~ 4:34pm Linc

GHoosdum wrote:

This thread is useless without AMD providing us with free hardware to review!

Pls see front page on Tuesday.
9 Nov 2007 ~ 4:47pm drasnor This thing would be nice for the next time I have to write some highly parallel finite element code for analyzing some huge system.

-drasnor
10 Nov 2007 ~ 11:04am Qeldroma Actually, I think that many of the technologies used here may find its way into the mainstream. Niche and specialized markets can make a great testbed.