AMD Introduces FirePro S9170 graphics card with 32GB memory
AMD announced the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU, a 32GB single-GPU server card for DGEMM heavy double-precision workloads. Based on the second-generation AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architecture, it offers 5.24 TFLOPS of peak single precision compute performance and up to 2.62 TFLOPS of peak double precision performance.
Designed with compute-intensive workflows in mind, the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU is ideal for data center managers who oversee clusters within academic or government bodies, oil and gas industries, or deep neural network compute cluster development.
"AMD is recognized as an HPC industry innovator as the graphics provider with the top spot on the November 2014 Green500 List. Today the best GPU for compute just got better with the introduction of the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU to complement AMD's impressive array of server graphics offerings for high performance compute environments," said Sean Burke, corporate vice president and general manager, AMD Professional Graphics group. "The AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU can accelerate complex workloads in scientific computing, data analytics, or seismic processing, wielding an industry-leading 32GB of memory. We designed the new offering for supercomputers to achieve massive compute performance while maximizing available power budgets."
The AMD FirePro S9170 offers unparalleled GPU compute performance and power efficiency with the following benefits:
- With up to 2.62 TFLOPS of peak double precision performance, the AMD FirePro S9170 is the fastest single-GPU server card available for DGEMM heavy workloads, delivering up to 40% more performance than the competitive solution;
- Support for 40% better double precision performance, while using 10% less power than the competition;
- The AMD FirePro S9170 is the industry's first server GPU with 32GB ultra-fast GDDR5 on-board memory and features a 512-bit memory interface for 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth;
- Equipped with 32GB of GDDR5 memory, the AMD FirePro S9170 GPU can accelerate memory-intensive applications and process larger and more computationally complex workloads with ease; and
- The AMD FirePro S9170 GPU features 33% more memory than the competitive GPU, helping to improve overall workload speed and system responsiveness, especially when working with large amounts of data.
"Based on our company's development and integration of leading-edge high-performance solutions to support design optimization, testing operation, simulation and maintenance of complex systems, SILKAN can attest that the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU is the most powerful on the market," said François Guérinea, chairman and CEO at SILKAN. "What makes the difference is the amount of memory, and accordingly we have chosen the AMD FirePro S9170 GPU with 32GB of memory as a necessity for a client's major project."
"By combining the new AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU with our G250 Series of 2U eight GPU systems, we are able to deliver HPC servers with up to 256GB of GPU memory," said Alex Liu, product marketing executive of the GIGABYTE Network & Comm. Division. "This unprecedented density of GDDR5 memory will help our customers offer very attractive machines to industries processing large datasets."
"ASUS is pleased to see the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU complement the AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU, the November 2014 Green500 List-winning solution," said Robert Chin, General Manager, ASUS Server Business Unit. "We are seeing customers not only obtain significant results in the HPC arena, but also achieve power efficiency for more green environments. The arrival of the AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU sets a new milestone for the HPC market segment. As a top Green500 List provider and one of the greenest HPC building block providers, we're excited to see the AMD FirePro S9170 GPU featured in our top ASUS ESC product family to enable excellent performance matched with significant savings in total cost of ownership."
"We have been developing a fully-parallel computational tool based on the AMD GPU heterogeneous computing platform and OpenCL," said Omid Mahahadi, co-founder and director, Geomechanica Inc. "This tool accurately captures the complex physics of massive mines plus oil and gas fields rapidly and reliably. Thanks to the impressive 32GB of memory of the new cards, we expect to run computations on massive data structures containing tens of millions of data elements. The combination of rapid double-precision operations with the large memory capacity enables accurate, detailed, and reliable computations. A similar performance using CPUs would likely require much higher capital and maintenance costs. Moving forward, we plan to take advantage of the recent features of the OpenCL 2.0 open API to further enhance the performance of our software."
To address future needs for HPC development, AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU supports the latest version of OpenCL while ready for the OpenMP and OpenACC developer tools with planned availability in Q3 2015.
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2nd generation?
So this is based on GCN 1.1 ? If true, why ?
Fiji dont have much FP64 rate as HawaiiXT, GrenadaXT had ( 1:2 FP64 rate ).
Like for Maxwell, they have need cut some part, and this is the FP64 part who have take the hit. In addition you will not see 32GB of memory with HBM before a little while.
The S9170 is an updated version of the S9150 one who was run with 16GB of GDDR5 and slightly less clock speed. ( just for compare, the K40 of Nvidia have 12GB and less than 2Tflops DP.. for get more or less the same you need take the K80 who is a dual gpu with 12GB / core )
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So they are using brand new 20nm Samsung's 8 Gb chips?
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2nd generation?
So this is based on GCN 1.1 ? If true, why ?