AMD announces 1-teraflop-breaking Firestream 9250
June 16th, 2008The International Supercomputing Conference in Germany has been host to AMD’s announcement that their new AMD Firestream 9250 floating point processor has become the first to break the one teraflop barrier which AMD claims represents a 55 times speed increase over floating point processing using the CPU alone.
The new processor utilizes a single PCI slot and sports 1GB of GDDR3 memory and a powee rating of 150 watts. The 9250 is aimed at servers and desktop systems.
AMD claims that the chip offers:
…an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to eight gigaflops per watt.
The Firestream 9250 supersedes the 9170 and is reported to incorporate a yet-to-be released ATT RV770 GPU at its heart.
A commercial launch is slated for Autumn this year — expect to pay around $1000.
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