During AFDS AMD made its new flagship for the professional market public; FirePro W9000, which in a way confirms Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. Also a graphics card with dual graphics circuits that will arrive later this year.
AMD Fusion Developer Summit is over and was rounded off with nothing less than news on the graphics side for the professional market. These graphics cards almost always take longer than the regular retail cards, since AMD has to make sure load can be sustained and specific conditions are met during certain time frames. Besides the minor W600 that is based on Radeon HD 7750 with six DisplayPort 1.2 to power six monitors and TDP below 75W, a new flagship was made public.
FirePro W9000 builds on Radeon HD 7970 and looks a lot like it, besides the FirePro sticker on the fan. The graphics card will deliver 4 TFLOPS in single-precision, and 1 TFLOPS in double-precision and gets 6 GB GDDR5 memory. For comparison, Radeon HD 7970 sports 2048 Radeon cores at 925 Mhz clock frequency and can do 3.788 and 0.947 TFLOPS respectively.
This means the new graphics card for the professional market has to be clocked at at least 977 MHz to deliver the performance promised. It is not uncommon for professional graphics cards to be clocked lower than the retail side. It is not wrong to assume that Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition should be somewhere around the corner.
A graphics card in the FirePro series with two Tahiti circuits
At the same time it showed a graphics card with dual graphics circuits, more precise two Tahiti circuits that is used in the Radeon HD 7900 series and the new FirePro W9000. The graphics card also had two 8-pin PCI Express connectionrs, which means it will consume at most 375W – like GeForce GTX 690 and last generation GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990. TechReport talked to Dave Erskine at AMD, who said that it is a card that will launch later this year. What we do know is that it is a FirePro version, but can also be the rumored Radeon HD 7990 code-named New Zealand?
What AMD CTO Mark Papermaster showed was a model for the professional market. The question is if AMD will release it in retail or if it will use HD 7970X2 for its partners to show at Computex – and if these are New Zealand and Radeon HD 7990?
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