AMD Announces Beefy W9100 Workstation Graphics Card

[N.Broekhuijsen]

AMD has announced its most powerful professional workstation graphics card to date.

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[shovenose2]

Coins?

 

[Zeh]

Workstation cards cost more than desktop-oriented cards. Miners won't want it.

 

[Cryio]

Workstation cards cost more than desktop-oriented cards. Miners won't want it.

Yes, but at the same time they are significantly faster. But most people will keep buy the 290s, that is true.

 

[David Dewis]

But can it run call of duty ghosts at max? Lol I kid

 

[Shankovich]

Seems like the perfect card for CFD simulations . That power combined with that memory, it'll work very very well in that environment.

 

[abimocorde]

Probably have to sell my house to pay for this one. 😉

 

[spartanmk2]

Lil' bit overkill for my solitaire needs.

 

[aaronmc]

That's double the FP64 of the W9000 and nearly quadruple the FP64 of the 290X. I hope they don't price this in the sky, because I'm already checking my bank account.

 

[rwinches]

Not interested I want a $3K non pro card like that groovy Titan-Z.__OTOH doesn't that fan look similar to the noisy R9 stock fan?

 

[Coolant]

That's double the FP64 of the W9000 and nearly quadruple the FP64 of the 290X. I hope they don't price this in the sky, because I'm already checking my bank account.

How does it fare against the quadro K6000 in FP64 performance, noob here

 

[seinar2]

but can it play crysis?

 

[aaronmc]

That's double the FP64 of the W9000 and nearly quadruple the FP64 of the 290X. I hope they don't price this in the sky, because I'm already checking my bank account.

How does it fare against the quadro K6000 in FP64 performance, noob here

The K6000 was the old FP64 record holder with only a 2/3 reduction in performance from its FP32 performance. Its FP32 was about 5.2 TFLOPS, thus giving it FP64 performance of about 1.7 TFLOPS.

With those numbers, that means AMD has managed a performance drop of only 1/2. That's amazing.

 

[chicofehr]

Finally a card that has enough ram to handle skyrim with all the mods in 3x30" in all 8K textures 😀 sarcasm intended of course

 

[Shin-san]

but can it play crysis?

Surprisingly, I think some Tomshardware benchmark showed that AMD Workstation GPUs were quite good at video gaming: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/workstation-graphics-card-gaming,3425-9.html

 

[dragonsqrrl]

I hope they don't price this in the sky, because I'm already checking my bank account.

The W9000 launched at $3999, if that helps you estimate what this might cost.

 

[spp85]

16 Giga Byte GDDR5 and over 2 TFLOPS Double precision compute power?? I'm without words about this monster........

 

[Slatteew]

Not interested I want a $3K non pro card like that groovy Titan-Z.__OTOH doesn't that fan look similar to the noisy R9 stock fan?

Um..............Titan Z IS a pro card, that just so happens to be good for gaming too. But MEANT for both. More or less game developers.

 

[tuvok]

but can it run Crysis?

 

[ipwn3r456]

I am not too sure if that's AMD's response to the Nividia Titan Z...

 

[falchard]

These workstation cards are used for one primary purpose. To render triangles in real time for CAD programs. There are two versions of AMD workstation cards like NVidia. First is the FirePro for CAD programs, the second is the FireStream for GPGPU. All professional cards will perform about 5~10% slower in games than their consumer grade counterparts.

 

[spentshells]

Not interested I want a $3K non pro card like that groovy Titan-Z.__OTOH doesn't that fan look similar to the noisy R9 stock fan?

Um..............Titan Z IS a pro card, that just so happens to be good for gaming too. But MEANT for both. More or less game developers.

titan z has existed as a workstation card for a long time, since the release of the kepler hardware.

 

[Haravikk]

Yes, but at the same time they are significantly faster.

Since when? Workstation cards are often slower than consumer cards because they're usually a generation behind chip-wise, because they need to get more aggressively binned (production tested) parts in order to live up to the 24/7 workloads they're intended for. Otherwise performance-wise the main difference with workstation cards is more memory, and various unique features and optimisations for professional applications.I just hope that this time round AMD has finally implemented true hardware RAID, rather than the performance and memory hungry hack the current Tahiti Fire Pros have. Also, I can't wait for these to surface in a new Mac Pro; I decided against the first generation due to various technical issues relating to the single socket (USB 3 bandwidth is pathetic on the cylinder Mac Pros).

 

[Steveymoo]

I think it's probably just a r9 290x with a decent warranty, very extensive customer support, and optimized drivers.That's usually why you pay a premium for workstation GPUs.

 

[bloodroses75]

Workstation cards are definitely slower than their normal counterparts outside the programs they are specifically designed for (CAD, etc). One of the reasons is that they have much higher precision in their math; I.E. a normal video card may figure the value of PI out to say 20 decimal places whereas the workstation would go out to 200. That in itself is quite a bit of overhead.