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View Full Version : AMD announces new firestream chipset 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,139413-c,amd/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 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 16xUnfortunately, 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. |