AMD Stream Processor First to Break 1 Teraflop Barrier
Portable Design News, Monday June 16, 2008
While you’re fine-tuning the power budget in your next portable design in MIPS/Milliwatt, it might be fun to glance upstream at what you could do if you had the firepower and a big enough battery.
At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD has introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance computing (HPC), mainstream and consumer applications. The AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance. With power consumption of less than 150 watts, the AMD FireStream 9250 delivers an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to eight gigaflops per watt.
The AMD FireStream 9250 stream processor includes a second-generation double-precision floating point hardware implementation delivering more than 200 gigaflops, building on the capabilities of the earlier AMD FireStream 9170, the industry’s first GP-GPU with double-precision floating point support.
AMD plans to deliver the FireStream 9250 and the supporting SDK in Q3 2008 at an MSRP of $999 USD. AMD FireStream 9170, the industry’s first double-precision floating point stream processor, is currently available for purchase and is competitively priced at $1,999 USD.
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