amd launches world’s most powerful server gpu

AMD has announced the AMD FirePro S9150 server card – the most powerful server Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) ever built for High Performance Computing. Based on the AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, the first AMD architecture designed specifically with compute workloads in mind, the AMD FirePro S9150 server card is the first server card to support enhanced double precision and break the 2.0 TFLOPS double precision barrier1,2.

With 16GB of GDDR5 memory – 33 percent more than the competition – and maximum power consumption of 235 watts, AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs provide supercomputers with massive compute performance while maximizing available power budgets.

Today’s supercomputers feature an increasing mix of GPUs, CPUs and co-processors to achieve great performance, and many of them are being implemented in an environmentally responsible manner to help reduce power and water consumption, said David Cummings, senior director and general manager, professional graphics, AMD.

The AMD FirePro S9150 server card is supported by a powerful software ecosystem, enabling developers to better harness its compute performance. In addition to AMD support for OpenCL, including support for OpenCL 2.0 planned later this year, AMD today announced collaboration with Pathscale to support OpenMP 4.0 for AMD FirePro S9150 and selected other AMD FirePro graphics cards.

AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU features:

5.07 TFLOPS of peak single-precision floating point performance – up to 18 percent more than the competition
Maximum double-precision floating point performance resulting in 2.53 TFLOPS peak double-precision compute performance – half of its peak single precision performance.
Industry leading memory configuration³ – 16GB GDDR5 memory, 512-bit memory interface and up to 320 GB/s memory bandwidth
2,816 stream processors (44 GCN compute units).
Error Correcting Code Memory support (external)
Ready to support OpenCL 2.0
235W maximum power consumption
AMD STREAM technology