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AMD Launches FirePro W8100 Professional Graphics Card

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/23/2014 03:33 PM | source: | 9 comment(s)
AMD Launches FirePro W8100 Professional Graphics Card

AMD today launched the AMD FirePro W8100 professional graphics card, enabling new levels of workstation performance delivered by the company's second generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. With nearly 38 times the performance of the closest competing product based on double precision testing, and powered by OpenCL, the AMD FirePro W8100 is designed for 4K CAD (Computing Aided Design) and Media and Entertainment (M&E) workflows, engineering analysis and supercomputing applications. 

 Bolstering the AMD Professional Graphics product family with yet another productive workstation solution, the AMD FirePro W8100 features a best-in-class 8 GB of GDDR5 memory, up to 4.2 TFLOPS of single precision compute performance, and unmatched double precision compute performance of up to 2.1 TFLOPS.

AMD FirePro W Series Specs compared
  AMD FirePro W9100 AMD FirePro W8100 AMD FirePro W9000 AMD FirePro W8000
Stream Processors 2816 2560 2048 1792
Texture Units 176 160 128 112
ROPs 64 64 32 32
Core Clock 930MHz 824MHz 975MHz 900MHz
Memory Clock 5GHz GDDR5 5GHz GDDR5 5.5GHz GDDR5 5.5GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 512-bit 512-bit 384-bit 256-bit
VRAM 16GB 8GB 6GB 4GB
Double Precision 1/2 1/2 1/4 1/4
Transistor Count 6.2B 6.2B 4.31B 4.31B
TDP 275W 220W 274W 189W
Manufacturing Process TSMC 28nm TSMC 28nm TSMC 28nm TSMC 28nm
Architecture GCN 1.1 GCN 1.1 GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Launch Price (List) $3999 $2499 $3999 $1599

"Engineering Analysis is becoming increasingly relevant for high-end workstation workflows, and 4K displays drive the need for more performance in media production pipelines," said David Cummings, senior director and general manager, Professional Graphics at AMD. "By adding the AMD FirePro W8100, we've expanded the AMD FirePro family to enable professionals -- in cooperation with our hardware and software partners -- with the right workstation performance they demand for next generation 4K workflows and supercomputing applications."

"At Dell, we believe in providing our workstation customers with the most effective tools to accomplish their tasks -- Dell Precision workstations with AMD FirePro professional graphics help give our customers those crucial tools," said Andy Rhodes, executive director, Dell Precision workstations. "Ultra high-resolution workflows and new applications based on OpenCL are becoming more of the rule than the exception for our customers. The AMD FirePro W8100, designed for next generation 4K CAD and M&E workflows, will be a great option for customers that demand high-level performance to tackle their demanding workflows and focus on their work."

"HP workstation customers will be empowered by the AMD FirePro W8100 to be successful with both computer aided engineering projects as well as digital creative efforts," said Jeff Wood, vice president, Worldwide Product Management, Commercial Solutions Business Unit, HP. "AMD FirePro W8100 offers our workstation customers with the power and performance required for application success."

"AMD FirePro W8100 mirrors the philosophy that we provide in our software -- uncompromising quality matched with reliable tools," said Steve Bannerman, vice-president marketing, ASSIMILATE. "We're starting to see a real transition in our customer base to 4K workflows as SCRATCH artists make feature films, television shows and commercials by pushing the boundaries technology delivers. The AMD FirePro W8100 complements SCRATCH by providing exceptional quality to workflow process."

"Through our internal testing we have determined that the new AMD FirePro W8100 graphics card will enable our customers to improve productivity based on industry leading professional graphics technology," said Ray Browell, Lead Product Manager, ANSYS, Inc. "ANSYS customers that handle complex systems and simulations will certainly benefit from the performance, reliability and valued certification that the new AMD professional graphics card provides."

"The introduction of the AMD FirePro W8100 complements our current SIMULIA release with accelerated compute performance and enhances our customer support for workstations and servers in multiple environments for High Performance Computing," said Matt Dunbar, Software Architecture Director, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. "With 8GB of dedicated fast memory plus over 2 TFLOPS of dual-precision floating-point performance, AMD FirePro W8100 combines with Abaqus to enable customers with the ability to process even larger simulation datasets and deliver faster, more accurate and detailed results."

Adrian Thompson, VP of Marketing for SAPPHIRE Technology, the Exclusive Global Distribution Partner for AMD FirePro commented: "The AMD FirePro W8100 delivers the exciting performance levels the professional user is looking for across a broad range of compute and graphically intensive tasks, and is ideal not just for integration into new workstations, but also delivers a stunning upgrade for users looking to increase productivity in today's demanding applications."

The AMD FirePro W8100 is the ideal professional-grade solution for CAD as well as applications dedicated to video editing, color correction, compositing, design visualization and GPU-accelerated compute tasks. The AMD FirePro W8100 features 8GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 on-board memory, designed to empower workstation users to load much larger datasets or handle ultra-HD video frames on the GPU's internal memory for processing, diminishing lag while improving the overall responsiveness of the workstation. Up to four AMD FirePro W8100 cards can be combined in a single system for scalable GPU compute performance of over 16 TFLOPS. The AMD FirePro W8100 allows users to be productive with up to four 4K display support and certified application performance with differentiated graphics features.

To address the increased requirements for real-time 4K productivity, the AMD FirePro Ultra Workstation was created with input from industry leaders to bring to market single- and multi-GPU configurations based on the new AMD FirePro W8100 that can match the demand of compute-intensive applications. Supporting Workstation System Integrators include: Armari, CARRI, Colfax, Exxact, Mouse Computer, PSSC Labs, Scan International, Tarox, Versatile Distribution Services, Workstation Specialists and Wortmann.

The AMD FirePro W8100 is available starting in July from AMD's global distribution partner SAPPHIRE Technology, AMD FirePro Ultra Workstation providers, and major workstation providers.

The AMD FirePro W8100 plus a sneak preview of the forthcoming AMD FirePro S9150 will be on display at the AMD exhibit booth at International Super Computing 2014 (#150).



AMD Launches FirePro W8100 Professional Graphics Card




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#4853909 Posted on: 06/23/2014 10:59 PM
useless for a gaming video card

about the heat, most card are with better disipation than regular one, (there is still some single slot card).
also the vent is "generaly" more reliable and silent...
of course the price...

Thats true, but before the 290x ( who still have good decent DP performance anyway, specially compared to the competition ), AMD was keep the same DP rate for professional and non professional gpu ( 1/4 ), like on the HD 7970..

When Nvidia add specific ALU, the FP64 units, in each SMX for the DP operation, AMD use cores / ALU ( + a scalar unit for each 16 ALU ) who are able to do both FP32 and FP64 operations. So on Nvidia this is driven by the simple thing: They disable or remove the FP64units ( removed like on GK104, and disabled, like on GK110 780-780TI )... On this sense Maxwell is allready closer to AMD GCN than Kepler on how FP64 instructions are implemented hardware wise, the next architecture will be it seems even closer.

So for AMD this is just a question of what is allowed or not on the gpu.

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#4853944 Posted on: 06/23/2014 11:30 PM
"Not really the case of the W9100.. TDP is not calculated the same of gaming card anyway. Its a 4000$ card.. not a 600$ gaming gpu ." Well most people talked about the GTX Titan only as an overpriced gaming card when in reality it was also a cheap card for professional use.


The difference being, the Titan was marketed to gamers. That's where most of the fuss comes from, I wouldn't recommend a Titan for a gaming build but I can most definitely see why some people buy them.

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#4854002 Posted on: 06/24/2014 12:35 AM
"Not really the case of the W9100.. TDP is not calculated the same of gaming card anyway. Its a 4000$ card.. not a 600$ gaming gpu ." Well most people talked about the GTX Titan only as an overpriced gaming card when in reality it was also a cheap card for professional use.


The titan is a gaming gpu.. its not because they have unlock the possibility to run better DP performance ( note, you need to switch in DP mode ), that it is a professionnal card.. outside the DP performance, this card has absolutely none of professional features you can find on workstations, server, HPC gpu's.... It is not compatible with professional series drivers, all the features software and hardware you can find on a workstation / server type gpu's, instructions, codes, error checks, QA, controls, specific input / output needed etc are absolutely not present.

Before we had Gaming gpu's who had the same ability in hardware of doing DP .. today the gaming gpu's, because it is not needed are indeed locked on this side.. Nvidia have got the idea to release a version with it, but thats just a 780 with full FP64 unit enabled instead of disabled ... its not a Quadro K6000, Tesla tuned down.

This will be totally misleading to sold a Titan or a 7970 - 290x as Professional card for both AMD and Nvidia, when thoses cards are not.
( i put both of thoses gpu of AMD, as the 7970 is the exact same SP/DP performance of a W9000 ( even faster ), and the 290x is just cutted at 1/8DP ( but still an extreme capable computing card compared to the 780TI )

What do a difference between a professional gpu and a "gaming gpu".. is not only the price, the quality of the tests on it, and high binned chips. but professional gpu's pack an high amount of hardware and softwares features, connection and compatibility with the workstations, servers, eco-system who are absolutely not ready to do his way on the main consumers markets.

( Just for clarify, i dont say that Titan or other gpu gaming, will not do an excellent work on 3Dmaxs, Blender, Adobe CC etc, and cant be used for it, all you need for thoses softwares is an good CPU ( mostly 1 -2 cpu 6-8cores will be better ), an high amount of system memory, an averagely good graphics acceleration for display what you are creating and the acceleration capability of OpenCL or CUDA for the render ( in real time or for the final renders backed.. ).

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#4854292 Posted on: 06/24/2014 06:38 AM
Big numbers, long numbers. This is one serious cruncher. Hackers rejoice, nu big daddy in town to crack all our codes. Maybe the government will finally allow us to have more than 6 digit passwords to access mah account. :(

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