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AMD Unveiled the Firestream 9250

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 17/06/2008 22:46:21 CEST - Category: Video - Source: AMD
If the future ATI/AMD GPU RV 770 will be unveil officially unveil in 10 days, the company decided to communicate about on of its new card, the Firestream 9250. It does not offer any video output, as this card is a stream processor specifically designed to accelerate algorithms in high-performance computing (HPC), mainstream and consumer applications. It will directly compete with NVidia's GeForce GTX 2x0.
The FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance computing. Interestingly, AMD also decided to communicate about the performance/watt efficiency ratio, and the card can deliver up to eight gigaflops per watt.
The FireStream 9250 gets installed on a single PCI slot and sports 1 GB of DDR3. The card is expected to ship for Q3 2008 and should cost around 999 USD.
Interestingly for Mac users, AMD indicated:
In keeping with its open systems philosophy, AMD has also joined the Khronos Compute Working Group. This working group’s goals include developing industry standards for data parallel programming and working with proposed specifications like OpenCL. The OpenCL specification can help provide developers with an easy path to development across multiple platforms.

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