AMD to Debut a 4TFLOPS Card at SIGGRAPH: FirePro W9000

During the last keynote at the last day of AFDS 2012, Mark Papemaster (AMD CTO) showed the next-generation FirePro board for the very first time, and the product is a beast indeed.


Mark Papermaster, AMD CTO shows off AMD FirePro W9000 6GB Workstation graphics card

This is the first time we saw a three fan, an enthusiast configuration – debuting as a professional workstation card. The key disclosed details are:

FirePro W9000

• Tahiti GPU operating at 1GHz
• Southern Islands GPU Architecutre
• 4TFLOPS Single Precision IEEE 754-2011
• 1TFLOPS Double Precision IEEE 754-2011
• 384-bit Memory Interface
• 6GB GDDR5 Memory
• 6 DisplayPorts
• 3x 92mm Fan (design resembles Arctic Cooling)

More details will be known on the next SIGGRAPH, which takes place in August of 2012.