AMD FireStream 9250 ‘Stream’ Processor Breaks 1 Teraflop Barrier [AMD FireStream 9250 Sets Pulses Racing At ISC]

AMD have announced that their new AMD FireStream 9250 next generation double-precision floating point ‘Stream’ processor, which serves to build on the capabilities of AMD’s FireStream 9170, has succeeded in breaking the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance during the International Supercomputing Conference being held in Germany.

Coming with 1GB of GDDR3 memory and AMD state that their 150 watt FireStream 9250 processor, which occupies a single PCI slot and delivers ‘an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to eight gigaflops per watt’, is ideal for small 1U servers as well as most desktop systems, workstations, and larger servers and can offer up to a 55x performance bump when compared to crunching financial analysis code using CPU alone.

According to AMD’s press release, their FireStream 9250 processor, which purportedly has ATI’s upcoming RV770 GPU at its core, is envisaged as becoming commercially available sometime in Q3 and will resale for around the $1000 price point.

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