Advanced Micro Devices launched a new graphics chip on Thursday modified to crunch huge amounts of data, with potential customers in financial, engineering and scientific industries.
The new product, called FireStream, gives AMD an answer to a similar initiative launched by rival Nvidia this year to find broader uses for increasingly powerful graphics chips.
FireStream is also a stepping stone to a major AMD project called Fusion that aims to combine a graphics processor on the same piece of silicon as a central processor by early 2009, a change that could lead to better-performing laptops.
The first customer looks to be HP. Aiming at medical and scientific resellers.
Starting price for the card? $1999.
Ooh! Look! A paper launch!
Go AMD!
When AMD can release a card that beats the 8800 GTX’s performance and uses the same amount of power and has the same or less heat output, I’ll be interested in them.
FireStream is also a stepping stone to a major AMD project called Fusion
While I am honored to have this project named after me, that name is trademarked.
#2: It’s not meant to compete with mainstream gaming-cards, so you wouldn’t be interested anyway.
#4: yet even nVidia doesn’t have the gall to charge that much for a workstation graphics card. Their top-of-the line model is only $1680.
And if they really want a super-cruncher, they can just save some cash and do what a lot of scientists are doing now: buying PS3’s as substitute supercomputers.
Is that where the hamster goes?
I wont comment…
Sorry, but…
PUT THE DRIVERS ON THE CARD…LET the card do the WORK, isnt that what its for?? Why should the CPU do the WORK.
ITS OLD TECH.
#5
“And if they really want a super-cruncher, they can just save some cash and do what a lot of scientists are doing now: buying PS3’s as substitute supercomputers.”
Amen! Now if Sony manages to make a version sans the bluray and slim enough to place on a rack it would be a wonderful research toy.
While I am honored to have this project named after me, that name is trademarked.
Comment by Mr. Fusion
What about that -five? – blade razor?
(Got a sample one in the mail. sux. Reminds me of an old SNL skit/commercial)
J/P=?
9,
reminds me of the MAD magazine 20 Razor…
I wonder if either the card or the PS3 would help 3D render times?
11,
NOT if the render is generated from the CPU…The CPU can only go so fast…
MAKE the Graphic card do the GRAPHIC work.