AMD Announces FirePro W9100 with 16GB GDDR5

[Final8y]

In what’s proving to be a busy week for GPU news, AMD has just wrapped up their webcast announcing their next flagship FirePro product. Dubbed the FirePro W9100, AMD’s latest card is their expected refresh of their FirePro product lineup to integrate the company’s recently launched Hawaii family of processors.

As Hawaii itself was a small but important refresh to Tahiti and the GCN architecture, the same can be said of the FirePro W9100 compared to the FirePro W9000. Other than some gaming-exclusive features such as TrueAudio, Hawaii’s biggest changes were the Asynchronous Compute Engine (ACE) additions that are part of GCN 1.1, the wider 4 primitive geometry pipeline, and of course the overall increase in performance and performance per watt compared to Tahiti. So from a technical perspective W9100 stands to be a relatively straightforward improvement to what W9000 has offered thus far.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7901/amd-announces-firepro-w9100

Kaapstad go quad that thing

 

[Tonester0011]

About time i say
Been waiting for a card with 16gb, put them on gaming cards

 

[Gregster]

8K and this would be handy

 

[Yaayuh!]

It'll cost £3500-£4000 I bet.

 

[chief barker]

It'll cost £3500-£4000 I bet.

Gregsters already re-mortgaged for two

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems for DP compute instead of the 1/8 rate the R9 290X is limited to,this is limited to 1/2 rate - even the GK110 based Tesla cards,are limited to 1/3 rate. This could be quite a monster of a card for certain applications.

 

[triss]

Slightly OT, Are workstation cards better at mining than the equivalent gaming card or worse?

 

[James J]

Its a sorely needed card though for the firepro line up as the other ones are all a few years old now, which in GPU terms is bloody ancient!

 

[Tonester0011]

Gregsters already re-mortgaged for two

Do you a thing for him or something? Every post i see of yours is aimed at G

 

[chief barker]

Do you a thing for him or something? Every post i see of yours is aimed at G

How cute....chivalry isn't dead after all.

My last post was a joke believe it or not....as for the others, yeah a slight dig (as most do on forums) but, nothing to worry about unless you're the sensitive type.

 

[humbug]

It seems for DP compute instead of the 1/8 rate the R9 290X is limited to,this is limited to 1/2 rate - even the GK110 based Tesla cards,are limited to 1/3 rate. This could be quite a monster of a card for certain applications.

The Hawaii Gaming GPU's have 5.6 Teraflops Single Precision compute power, currently the most powerful single core compute GPU's around.

FP32 Should be around the same for these Work Station cards.

 

[alex_123_fra]

You can have 2 w9000 fire pros in crossfire in the Mac Pro. If you get the top spec with a 12 core/24 thread Xeon it is a bargain at £7.5k

My lack of respect aside for apple tech generally, the Mac Pro does come in an interesting form factor.