Comments on: AMD FireStream 9250 http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-firestream-9250/ Hottest news on the next generation GPUs Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: A. Weiss http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-firestream-9250/#comment-83 A. Weiss Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:59:16 +0000 http://gpucafe.com/?p=232#comment-83 I checked with AMD, the stream drivers are available for the 4870 as well. As far as I can tell, the only thing this card has that the 4870X2 doesn't is double precision. I don't need double precision for the work that I'm doing, it is all integral in fact. It would be nice if ATI would offer a firestream like card without the double precision and graphics stuff, and a lot more memory (accessible by all stream processors, from what I understand the 4870X2 individual cards cannot access each other's memory), also with more than 1600 stream processors. I checked with AMD, the stream drivers are available for the 4870 as well. As far as I can tell, the only thing this card has that the 4870X2 doesn't is double precision. I don't need double precision for the work that I'm doing, it is all integral in fact. It would be nice if ATI would offer a firestream like card without the double precision and graphics stuff, and a lot more memory (accessible by all stream processors, from what I understand the 4870X2 individual cards cannot access each other's memory), also with more than 1600 stream processors.

]]> By: JD http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-firestream-9250/#comment-81 JD Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:48:44 +0000 http://gpucafe.com/?p=232#comment-81 @ A.Weiss You missing driver for GPU. Software Engineering is the other half of computing. @ A.Weiss

You missing driver for GPU. Software Engineering is the other half of computing.

]]> By: A. Weiss http://gpucafe.com/2008/09/amd-firestream-9250/#comment-79 A. Weiss Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:44:21 +0000 http://gpucafe.com/?p=232#comment-79 So, the 4870X2 costs ~$560, and has 1600 processors, 2G GDDR5, and 2.4TFLOP performance, and this card has 800 processors 1G GDDR3, and goes for ~$1000. What am I missing? So, the 4870X2 costs ~$560, and has 1600 processors, 2G GDDR5, and 2.4TFLOP performance, and this card has 800 processors 1G GDDR3, and goes for ~$1000. What am I missing?

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