AMD announces new firestream chipset at DVinfo.net

Peter Ferling · November 8th, 2007, 12:37 PM

Parrellel processing similiar to current graphics GPUs
100 times faster than current dual cores
Can be added to current workstations via PCI-E 2.0 16x

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...d/article.html

Sam Ferra · November 9th, 2007, 02:14 PM

tanks Peter. good news and great hardeware. I'm surprise there is no more reaction too this post.
I want one of those for my camputer with sony vegas. who needs an expensive Avid DS Nitrits after that!

Lawrence Bansbach · November 9th, 2007, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter Ferling

Parrellel processing similiar to current graphics GPUs 100 times faster than current dual cores
Can be added to current workstations via PCI-E 2.0 16x

Unfortunately, a little digging confirmed what I had suspected, namely, that the vaunted floating-point performance figure -- 500 GFLOPs -- is for single-precision operations, although FireStream can perform double-precision FLOPs. NVIDIA offers a similar product, called Tesla.

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Sam Ferra New Boot Join Date: May 2004 Location: motreal canada Posts: 5	tanks Peter. good news and great hardeware. I'm surprise there is no more reaction too this post. I want one of those for my camputer with sony vegas. who needs an expensive Avid DS Nitrits after that! __________________ hello