AMD had quite a showing at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas as the company unveiled their latest workstation graphics card, the AMD FirePro W9100.
Based on the Hawaii XT core, the FirePro W9100 comes with a staggering 32GB of GDDR5 VRAM that operates with speeds of 5.0GHz, delivering a total bandwidth of 320GB/s. Aside from the huge memory, the W9100 will come with clock speeds of 930 MHz whch leads to 5.2 TFLOPs of single precision and 2.6 TFLOPs of double precision compute performance. Furthermore, the W9100 will come with a 512-bit interface and has a 275W TDP.
“The imagination of the creator is limitless so much so that the professional creator consumes all available resources to produce new and never before seen designs and experiences. Some professional creative workflows demand very high bandwidth memory subsystems while others demand high memory size. With the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB, AMD is unleashing the world’s largest memory size professional workstation graphics card,” says Raja Koduri, Senior Vice-President and Chief Architect of Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), AMD.
Scheduled for launch in the Q2 2016, the AMD FirePro W9100 will have an asking price of USD 4,999 (RM 16,649).
Source: WCCFTECH
