AMD FirePro W8100 – The solution for the AMD display 4k and GPU computing
In conjunction with the opening of Supercomputing 2014, the leading international trade fair focused on computing systems, today announced the new AMD FirePro W8100 card. This is a proposal indicated to the market of graphics workstations, with which not only can handle the display with 4K resolution, but also use the integrated GPU processing for parallel computing.
The board is based GPU family in Hawaii, the same as for the family cards Radeon R9 290, with 2560 stream processors and an allocation of video memory of up to 8 Gbytes combined with 512-bit memory interface width. AMD declares a maximum bandwidth of 320 Gbytes per second, given that leads to a clock frequency of 1.250 MHz (5 GHz effective) for the modules GDDR5.
AMD FirePro W8100 is a professional solution is ideal for use with CAD applications with programs for video editing, to color correction, to the composition, for the design and visualization for the performance of tasks that can benefit GPU acceleration. AMD FirePro W8100 includes 8GB of GDDR5 memory, capable of ensuring workstation users the ability to upload larger dataset or to process directly in the GPU memory to the internal frame of the video in ultra HD, reducing delays and increasing at the same time the reactivity overall workstation.
And possible to combine up to four cards AMD FirePro W8100 within a single system to provide scalable computing performance and a total capacity that exceeds 16 TFLOPS. AMD FirePro W8100 allows users maximum productivity with support up to 4 displays 4K and certified performance for different applications.
In comparison with competing solutions, NVIDIA Quadro product family stands out for its superior speed performance with processing of GPU computing in double precision. The architecture of Hawaii AMD is likely to put computing power available in double precision, which is equal to 50% of that in single precision, which could go up to 2 TeraFLOPS maximum.
For NVIDIA Quadro family that are direct competitors of this board processing power in double precision is 1/24 of the maximum in single precision, a choice that together these cards to those of the family GeForce (excluding Titan) as NVIDIA chosen to allocate those proposals which Tesla GPU computing cards suitable for double precision.
The board features four DisplayPort 1.2 connections, thanks to which you can control up to a maximum of 4 display with 4K resolution at the same time. This product will be marketed from July, distributed in the retail channel by Sapphire or by the various partners of AMD graphics workstation manufacturers.
- Energy Efficient Design
- DisplayPort 1.2
- AMD Eyefinity Technology
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