AMD announces FireStream 9170, available Q1 2008

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AMD announces FireStream 9170, first dedicated stream processor - Engadget

some important notes:

*it will be 55nm process technology
*consumes less than 150 watts of power
*2GB of GDDR3 RAM!! (HOLY SHNIKIES!)
*"world's first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology", but can be questionable from reading a comment on engadget that Nvidia is doing the same
*will cost $2000
*you'll be getting 500 GFLOPS
*the asynchronous direct memory access (DMA) ensures data can flow freely without interrupting the stream processor or CPU.

n most important:

*it is tailored for scientific and engineering calculations

too bad that we cant get these for desktop PCs........this could beat the 8800 Ultra easily!

u guys think this n Fusion is what is slowing AMD down? I know the mergance of ATI did, but what about this?
 
u guys think this n Fusion is what is slowing AMD down? I know the mergance of ATI did, but what about this?

I think its going to accelerate their profits in the future. The low end and enterprise level is where the money is at.
 
Looks like its competing with the NVidia tesla

This will be excellent for FEA applications. 2k seems cheap - my quaddro 4500 was like 1500 bucks.
 
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