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AMD Announces 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo (hothardware.com)

Posted by timothy on from the to-spend-more-time-with-family dept.

MojoKid writes: Remember that Radeon R9 Fury X2 graphics card that AMD CEO Lisa Su showed off months ago? We were previously lead to believe that the dual-GPU graphics card would deliver performance of around 12 TFLOPs. However, the card will actually deliver in excess of 16 TFLOPs. AMD says that this is more than enough to allow developers to "Develop content more rapidly for tomorrow's killer VR experiences while at work, and playing the latest DirectX 12 experiences at maximum fidelity while off work." And the Radeon R9 Fury X2 name? That's dead and buried — the card is now known as the Radeon Pro Duo. Not much is known about the new card at this point but the Radeon Pro Duo will apparently be available during the second quarter with an estimated street price of $1,499.

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  1. Find out what is and isn't actually news by CajunArson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not news: AMD slapped two GPUs from last year onto a card in an under-clocked and over-priced configuration like AMD/Nvidia have been doing for years.

    News: Even AMD couldn't avoid posting pictures of a nice shiny red AMD developer system that's clearly running a Haswell-E CPU with an LGA-2011 motherboard to make the "X2" or "Pro" or whatever they are calling it be functional.

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  2. Supercomputing by paskie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where AMD seems really missing out is supercomputing. If you are building a computing cluster, you always go with NVidia, because of CUDA's overwhelming presence in the ecosystem. (Cracking might be an exception.) For example, all the major deep learning frameworks work just with CUDA. Why doesn't AMD care? It must be losing a lot of sales on this.

    If AMD paid three guys fulltime to add OpenCL backends to the most popular open source libraries and built a CuDNN equivalent, the world would be a better place for everyone, but most clearly for AMD.

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  3. Great more TFLOP's by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More TFLOP's are great. But what I'm really interested in out of AMD are:

    1) Better driver support
    2) Something to compete with Nvidia's Physx, Gameworks, built-in video encoding, etc.
    3) Better support from game developers

    I recently abandoned the red team because I got sick of waiting for them to get their act together while Nvidia got all the developer and exclusive-feature love.

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