FirePro S9300 x2 is not only the fastest single-precision computation accelerator, but also the first professional card is equipped with memory HBM.
AMD slashes prices for FirePro S9300 x2 professional graphics card, which is the fastest accelerator in the world. This card, it was decided to apply at the Canadian experiment, CHIME – Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment.
FirePro S9300 x2 uses two graphics processors Fiji XT (GCN 1.2), that connect 13,9 TFLOPS power floating point single precision, ie more, than any other professional design with two graphics cards, available on the market today. by the way, it is also the first graphics card for data centers with HBM memory (with a capacity of 512 Gb / s per core). In this way, can say, that the FirePro S9300 x2 is a professional analogue cards recently announced Radeon Pro Duo.
| Model | FirePro S9100 | FirePro S9150 | FirePro S9170 | FirePro S9300 x2 |
| architecture | GCN 1.1 | GCN 1.1 | GCN 1.1 | GCN 1.2 |
| graphics processor | Hawaii Pro | Hawaii XT | Hawaii XT | 2x Fiji XT |
| stream processors | 2560 | 2816 | 2816 | 2x 4096 |
| Core Frequency | 900 MHz | 900 MHz | 930 MHz | 850 MHz |
| The computing power of a single-precision | 4,22 TFLOPS | 5,07 TFLOPS | 5,24 TFLOPS | 13,9 TFLOPS |
| Computing performance double precision | 2,11TFLOPS | 2,53 TFLOPS | 2,62 TFLOPS | 0,87 TFLOPS |
| Memory | 12 GB GDDR5, 512-bit | 16 GB GDDR5, 512-bit | 32 GB GDDR5, 512-bit | 2x 4 ГБ HBM 4096-bit |
| Memory clock frequency | 5000 MHz | 5000 MHz | 5000 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320 Gbit / s | 320 Gbit / s | 320 Gbit / s | 2x 512 GB / sec |
| Cooling | passive | passive | passive | passive |
| TDP | 225 AT | 235 AT | 275 AT | 300 AT |
| price | not known | not known | $3999 | $5999 |
Besides, to demonstrate the revolutionary computing capabilities the graphics card AMD FirePro S9300 x2 and its uniqueness, AMD has developed a platform Radeon Open Compute, which is focused on Linux ecosystem with an open platform parallel processing, optimized for supercomputers, t. it is. High power systems HPC (HPC) and ultra-scalable computing. The core of Radeon Open Compute provides direct access to gpu, offering developers more control over code execution.
The server graphics card AMD FirePro S9300 x2 is an attractive product, which combines an open compiler and runtime, full access to the controller, enormous computing power, along with the ability to use a large number of computer systems.
CHIME project that aims to, to investigate the phenomenon of expansion of the universe and confirm, whether it is accelerating instead, to slow down. With the technology, similar to those, which can be found in home radios, Telescope captures radio waves, propagated in space 11 billion years, and then converts them into data, which are transmitted supercomputer, equipped with AMD FirePro S9300 series graphics cards.
Due to the high cost, it was not possible to create a system with a large number of efficient analyzers., which were needed to confirm the expansion of the universe. But the situation has changed. Now pPerforman should help to create a very detailed map, which will represent the rate of transmission of hydrogen from billions of galaxies, and at the same time it will provide scientists with knowledge of the expansion of the universe.
FirePro S9300 x2 goes on sale this quarter and will cost 5999 dollars - at 4 times more, than "civil" Radeon Pro Duo.