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IronBits
06-16-2008, 03:00 PM
AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance.
It occupies a single PCI slot, for unmatched density and with power consumption of less than 150 watts.
The AMD FireStream 9250 delivers an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to eight gigaflops per watt. Read more here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~126593,00.html (http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543%7E126593,00.html)



Pricing and availability
AMD plans to deliver the FireStream 9250 and the supporting SDK in Q3 2008 at an MSRP of $999 USD.
AMD FireStream 9170, the industry’s first double-precision floating point stream processor, is currently available for purchase and is competitively priced at $1,999 USD. For more information about AMD FireStream 9250 or AMD FireStream 9170 or AMD’s complete line of stream computing solutions, please visit http://www.amd.com/stream (http://ati.amd.com/technology/streamcomputing/).

Helix_Von_Smelix
06-16-2008, 05:45 PM
have started saving!!

:thumbs:

Dilemma
06-18-2008, 09:36 AM
i hate amd, intel is the best

the-mk
06-18-2008, 11:17 AM
i hate amd, intel is the best

make love not war! ;)

jasong
06-23-2008, 05:15 PM
My ADD is super-bad today. Does that article say that the tools will be open-source? I don't think the words "open source" were actually in there, but that seems to be what they were saying.

Am I wrong?