AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) has recently announced their new monster GPU dubbed as the AMD FirePro S9150. The new graphics card is listed in the server GPU category which is prior for a major competition in the supercomputing era.
The new server GPU will compute toe-to-toe with the Nvidia’s Tesla board K40, which is recently seen to be the rival of AMD.
FirePro S9150 is offering a 16GB of GDDR5 RAM and 320GB/s memory bandwith, which is expected to bring out an incredible graphics performance while still be requiring the same maximum power of 235 watts as the Nvidia’s Tesla board K40 needs.
Clients of AMD will be required to support OpenMP 4.0 and the upcoming OpenCL 2.0 framework, for the high-performance computations.
AMD FirePro S9150 dominated Nvidia’s K40 needs in both single and double precision.
Single precision floating-point performance:
FirePro S9150 - 5.07 TFLOPS
Nvidia K40 - 4.29 TFLOPS
Double precision floating-point performance
FirePro S9150 - 2.53 TFLOPS
Nvidia K40 - 1.43 TFLOPS
AMD FirePro S9150 specs:
GPU Engine:
Architecture: GCN 1.1
Stream Cores: 2,816
TFR: 163.7GT/Sec
Memory:
Bus Type: GDDR5
Bus Width: 512-bit
Capacity: 16GB
Bandwidth: 320GB/sec
Bus Interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
Power and Performance:
TDP: 235 watts
5.07 TFLOPS (Single Precision) / 2.53 TFLOPS (Double Precision)
Several partners, including ASUS, Gigabyte and Supermicro, has already expressed their interests over the new FirePro S9150. Official Pricing is expected to be available in the third quarter of this year.
Sources: http://www.zdnet.com/ , Google Images.
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