AMD has now unveiled the new GPU-based server graphics card aimed to be used with high performance computing (HPC) server market, the AMD FirePro S9150. According to AMD, the FirePro S9150 is the most powerful server Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) ever built offering over 2.5 TFLOPS of peak double-precision compute performance.

The new AMD FirePro S9150 is based on AMD's 28nm GCN architecture and features 44 GCN compute units (CUs) for a total of 2816 Stream Processors. It also packs 16GB of GDDR5 memory connected via 512-bit memory interface for an impressive 320GB/s of memory bandwidth, all on PCI-Express x16 interface and standard full height/full length form factor.

Providing over 5 TFLOPS of peak single-precision and over 2.5 TFLOPS of peak double-precision floating point compute performance, the new FirePro S9150 will definitely move the bar of supercomputing.

While promising the fastest server GPU ever built, AMD has also noted that the new FirePro S9150 offers up to 77 per cent more performance per watt than the competition. With maximum TDP of 235W, the FirePro S9150 offers 10.8GFLOPS of double precision compute performance per watt and features passive cooling which should help reduce power consumption, something that is quite important in the server and supercomputer market.




As expected, the new FirePro S9150 suport OpenCL application standard and the OpenCL 2.0 support is planned for later this year which should bring some new features including Shared Virtual Memory and Nested Parallelism.



Source: AMD.com.