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AMD launches FirePro W9100 32GB

by on15 April 2016


If you want to know how much it costs you can’t afford it

AMD has released an updated workstation graphics card sporting a massive 32GB of memory. The new card uses GDDR5 memory although you can still get the older 16GB version released in 2014.

The card uses a 512-bit memory interface and a 320GB/s memory bandwidth, meaning that not only does the card offer shedloads of memory but it is super-fast memory too.

According to AMD the idea was to create a workstation with large asset workflows with creative applications. It should be in the shops sometime in Q2 2016. AMD also introduced the AMD FireRender plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max to help VR storytellers do their stuff in enhanced 4K.

Raja Koduri, senior vice-president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group said that the imagination of the creator was limitless so much so that the professional creator consumes all available resources to produce new and never before seen designs and experiences.

“Some professional creative workflows demand very high bandwidth memory subsystems while others demand high memory size. AMD pioneered the era of High Bandwidth and Ultra Efficient Memory through the introduction of HBM technology in 2015 and will bring it to content creators with the introduction of Radeo Pro Duo graphics. With the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB, AMD is unleashing the world’s largest memory size professional workstation graphics card,” he said.

The FirePro W9100 consists of 2,816 stream processors (44 compute units) with a peak single-precision floating-point performance of 5.24 TFLOPS, while the peak dual-precision floating-point performance is 2.62 TFLOPS. The graphics processor itself, manufactured using 28nm process technology, has a core clock of 930MHz, which is unchanged.

The new 32GB card has six mini DisplayPort 1.2a outputs which means that with the company’s Eyefinity multi-display technology you can expanding the desktop across multiple screens.

There is also AMD HD3D Pro technology for stereo 3D (via a stereoscopic 3-pin mini DIN), and DirectGMA for directly reading and writing to the GPU’s memory.

If you have the money it will cost $3,999. The old one can be picked up for about $2,999.

Last modified on 15 April 2016
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