AMD Launches FireStream 9170, First Stream Processor With Double-Precision Floating Point Technology
AMD’s launching “the world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology,” the FireStream 9170, and the AMD FireStream SDK for Stream processors. Running a cool $2000, the 55nm chip pulls less than 150 watts of juice while pumping out 500 GFLOPS of computing power. Also packed onboard is 2GB of GDDR3 memory, which, combo’d…