AMD Unveils FirePro W9100

Advanced Micro Devices has launched their new flagship professional graphics card, the Firepro W9100. The latest addition to the Firepro family of professional graphics cards is an impressively powerful unit designed for emerging demands in computation and content creation. The Hawaii based workstation graphics card features an industry-first 16Gb of GDDR5 video memory with a 320 Gb per second memory bandwidth.

Through the W9100 AMD set out to provide the professional realms of content creation and computation with an industry-leading card in compute performance. Featuring 2.67 gigaflops of double-precision compute performance with over 5 gigaflops of single-precision compute performance, the W9100 is the first professional graphics solution to break 2 teraflops in double-precision compute performance.

This is the full Hawaii GPU being used, and that means 2816 Stream processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs. The W9100 has also be engineered with AMD's GCN architecture and features DirectGMA technology streamlining the data flow between the GPU and SDI I/O board. For video content creation professionals the card will drastically reduce encoding time while utilizing OpenCL for real-time 4k rendering.

"It's powered by OpenCL and it's really designed and optimized for real-time 4k" said David Cummings, Senior Director and General Manager of AMD Professional Graphics.

The Firepro W9100 is not yet available for purchase, today simply marks the official launch of the product line. AMD has yet to release other key technical specifications for the new flagship professional graphics card such as the core and memory clock speeds along with the memory bus width.