AMD FireStream 9170 - Computer accelerator RV670

AMD has announced the release of the avant-garde product FireStream 9170, which implements the idea of ​​demanding computing means the graphics processor (GPU). According to the press service of the company, a new solution that meets the demands of the high-performance computing systems, embodied experience in the development of AMD CPU and GPU.



AMD FireStream 9170 is a graphics accelerator based on a chip with 320 stream pipelines, made of 55- nm technology. Obvious analogy with the chip RV670, the basis of game of Radeon HD 3870/3850, which will appear in the middle of this month. For the operating frequency of the core specified FireStream 9170 range from 775 to 800 MHz. The new motherboard equipped with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory with an asynchronous direct access (DMA), is compatible with PCI Express graphics interface 2. 0 and consumes less than 150W. For a system with a computational accelerator FireStream 9170 is recommended to use the power supply capacity of 500 watts. According to AMD, provided payment is characterized by an extremely high ratio of performance per watt.



The developers of a new product called the industry's first accelerator double-precision floating-point, which is important for scientific and engineering calculations. Features FireStream 9170 can deal with the processing of seismic data, financial and engineering analysis, genetic studies, physical and chemical calculations, rendering, video editing, etc. Dr.. It should be noted that the performance of one card is comparable to the speed of supercomputers, and some can reach 500 GFLOPS. This is a reminder of the high computing power of the GPU and the latest generation need to expand the scope of the video game.

A new computational accelerator from AMD will be available in the first quarter of 2008. Suggested retail price is $ 1999. Simultaneously with the entry FireStream 9170 is expected to release an appropriate set of tools for developers FireStream SDK.
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