Although it was detailed earlier last month, AMD has now officially announced and launched its new Hawaii-based FirePro W9100 professional graphics cards which packs 16GB of GDDR5 memory and offers 2.62/5.24 TFLOPS of single- and double-precision GPU compute performance.


Showing that Hawaii GPU is meant for more than just gaming, AMD has now announced its newest FirePro professional graphics card based on the same GPU which was behind the Radeon R9 290X graphics card. Aimed to sweep professional performance crown from Nvidia Quadro K5000 and K6000 series workstation graphics cards, the new FirePro W9100 packs quite a punch with 2.62 TFLOPS of single-precision and 5.24 TFLOPS of double-precision GPU compute performance.

In addition to impressive compute performance, the FirePro W9100 also packs 16GB of GDDR5 memory as well as an ability to drive up to six 4K/UHD resolution display thanks to its six DisplayPort outputs. According to AMD, the FirePro W9100 packs more compute performance, more memory, higher memory bandwidth, better display output support and higher PCI-Express bandwidth compared to anything that competition can offer.

The new FirePro W9100 also feature multi-GPU support where up to four AMD FirePro W9100 graphics cards can be combined into a single desktop systems and provide immense compute performance as well as support for up to 24 4K/UHD display outputs. The FirePro W9100 is, according to AMD, designed for OpenCL 2.0, allowing developers to take advantage of new features that give GPUs more freedom to do the work they are designed to do as well as allow professionals to use the parallel computing power of modern GPUs and multicore CPUs to accelerate compute-intensive tasks in leading CAD/CAM/CAE and Media & Entertainment applications that support OpenCL.

AMD FirePro W9100 will be available this spring from AMD's global distribution partner, Sapphire Technology, AMD FirePro Ultra Workstation providers, and in HP Z820 and HP Z620 Workstations.



Source: AMD.com.