AMD today announced its next flagship FirePro product -- the new FirePro W9100 -- based on the company?s Hawaii family of processors.
Compared to the previous FirePro W9000 model,
the new card is based on the Hawaii architecture, features TrueAudio, the Asynchronous Compute Engine (ACE), a wider 4 primitive geometry pipeline and an increased performance and performance per watt. Below you see a compparison of the two cards, based on the information AMD has provided so far:
| |
AMD FirePro W9100 |
AMD FirePro W9000 |
| Stream Processors |
2816 |
2048 |
| Texture Units |
176 |
128 |
| ROPs |
Unknown |
32 |
| Core Clock |
975MHz |
| Memory Clock |
5.5GHz GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width |
384-bit |
| VRAM |
16GB |
6GB |
| Double Precision |
1/2? |
1/4 |
| Transistor Count |
6.2B |
4.31B |
| TDP |
Unknown |
274W |
| Manufacturing Process |
TSMC 28nm |
TSMC 28nm |
| Architecture |
GCN 1.1 |
GCN 1.0 |
| Warranty |
3-Year |
3-Year |
| Price |
Unknown |
$3999 |
Based on a fully enabled Hawaii GPU, the W9100has 2816 SPs spread out over 44 CUs. AMD has nt provided clock speeds yet. AMD has also packed W9100 with 16GB of memory.
AMD says that FP32 is rated for over 5 GFLOPS and FP64 is rated
for over 2 GFLOPS.
AMD has also
announced that they will be introducing a new workstation branding
initiative to go with the card. Dubbed the ?Ultra Workstation?
initiative, the program will have 3 tiers of workstations, indicating
how many GPUs they have in them and what kind of tasks AMD is
recommending for them based on resource requirements and how well major
applications scale to that many GPUs.
All of the Ultra Workstation tiers will have a minimum of 32GB of
system memory, at least one 8 core CPU, and of course at least one
W9100.
