AMD presents ‘most powerful server GPU’ to date

AMD has presented the FirePro S9150, a server GPU that the manufacturer says is the first to reach 2.53Tflops with double-precision calculations, making it the first server GPU to exceed 2Tflops.

The GPU for HPC achieves exactly half the speed of the single-precision calculations in double-precision calculations. The FirePro S9150 thus achieves 5.07Tflops. The server GPU is built on AMD’s proprietary Graphics Core Next architecture, which, according to the manufacturer, was developed for these types of applications.

The S9150 has 2816 stream processors and 16GB gddr5 memory, with a memory bandwidth of 320GB/s. The TDP is 235W, much less than, for example, the 375W of the FirePro S10000 from 2012. The S9150 is one of the first GPUs from AMD with OpenCL 2.0 support, although that will only come a few months after release.

In addition to the S9150, AMD also comes with the S9050, which is graphically less powerful and for which AMD will probably ask a lower price. On single-precision calculations, the S9050 comes up to 3.23Tflops, while the memory with 12GB is also slightly smaller and has less bandwidth, namely 264GB/s. The tdp is also slightly lower at 225W.