![]() ![]() With the FireStream 9270, AMD increased the single-precision performance to 1.2 teraflops and the company’s engineers boosted the GPU’s ability to handle double-precision performance to 240 gigaflops, which allows the FireStream 9270 to handle much more complex scientific applications and process data much faster. In June, the company offered the AMD FireStream 9250, which offers 1 teraflop or 1 trillion calculations per second of single-precision floating point performance. The AMD FireStream 9270 is one of several of these GP-GPUs that AMD has brought to the HPC market since November 2007. Unlike a CPU, a GPU or GP-GPU contains hundreds of smaller stream processing cores and allows the software’s instructional threads to run in parallel, breaking the information down into smaller pieces, which provides for high throughput and better performance for various applications without relying as much on cranking the clock speeds. ![]() ![]() While HPC and supercomputers were based on more traditional CPU architectures for years, Nvidia and AMD are each beginning to develop new generations of graphics processors for the field that will allow applications to work faster and more efficiently. The AMD FireStream GPUs are part of what the company refers to as ATI Stream, which looks to solve complex HPC problems by using the technology original development for the graphics market. 13, the same day AMD will release its latest quad-core Opteron processor called ” Shanghai,” the company will also launch the AMD FireStream 9270, a general purpose GPU (GP-GPU) that competes against the Nvidia Tesla 10 GPU in the HPC market. AMD is also expanding its software development kit for developers creating applications for this growing field. List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.Advanced Micro Devices is adding additional muscle to its line of FireStream graphics processing units with a new stream processor that looks to boost the company’s offering around high-performance computing. OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM. Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Information on compatibility with other computer components. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. ![]()
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