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AMD Launches FireStream 9170, First Stream Processor With Double-Precision Floating Point Technology [Blazing]

November 8th, 2007 | Uncategorized

AMD’s launching “the world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology,” the FireStream 9170, and the AMD FireStream SDK for Stream processors. Running a cool $2000, the 55nm chip pulls less than 150 watts of juice while pumping out 500 GLOPS of computing power.
Also packed onboard is 2GB of GDDR3 memory, which, combo’d with asynchronous direct memory access, “ensures data can flow freely without interrupting the stream processor or CPU.” This parallel-processing piece of badassness will hit the market in the Q1 2008.
AMD Delivers First Stream Processor with Double Precision Floating Point Technology
AMD FireStream 9170 and supporting Software Development Kit unlock Stream-based Accelerated Computing
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – November 8, 2007 -AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD leveraged its unique collective expertise in [...]

Original post by Matt Buchanan



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