AMD launches four TFLOPS Firepro S9000 accelerator

AMD has released Firepro S9000 and S7000 GPGPU boards citing single precision floating point performance of four TFLOPS.

AMD’s Firepro range of graphics cards are typically found in workstations, but in recent years the firm has been ditching the video outputs and creating GPGPU-only accelerator boards bearing the same branding. The firm announced its latest ultra high-end S9000 and S7000 Firepro accelerators sporting single precision floating point performance of 4.0 TFLOPS and 2.4 TFLOPS, respectively.

AMD’s Firepro S9000 and S7000 boards go up against the Nvidia Tesla K10 board that was launched back in May. The Firepro S9000 and S7000 boards sport the firm’s latest Graphics Core Next architecture found in its consumer Radeon HD 7970 boards, mated to 6GB of GDDR5 memory.

While AMD’s Firepro GPGPU boards are a few months behind Nvidia’s Tesla K10, both the Firepro S9000 and S7000 have considerably higher peak single precision floating point performance. AMD’s S7000 also has the added advantage of being a single-slot passively cooled board with a TDP of 150W.

AMD is also working on integrating GPGPUs into its Opteron processors, much like the Firepro branded APU the firm launched earlier this month. Suresh Gopalakrishnan, corporate VP and GM of AMD’s server division told The INQUIRER that Opteron APUs will arrive with the next round of Opteron updates.

Even though AMD has penciled in bringing out Opteron APUs, it is unlikely that the firm will be able to stick a 4.0 TFLOP GPGPU into an Opteron processor for a couple of years, meaning that the Firepro S series will still remain the AMD product that provides most of the compute power in a high performance computing cluster.

AMD said its Firepro S9000 has a sticker price of $2,500 and the Firepro S7000 costs $1,250.

via The Inquirer

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