AMD India, at a launch event in India, has launched two of its most powerful professional graphics cards, the AMD FirePro W8100 and AMD FirePro W9100. These are top notch graphics solution meant for studio environment, high end professional graphics processing, creation, rendering and other such graphics intensive graphics applications.
These GPUs are very capable in terms of their processing and can also support cloud gaming where a centralized server with these cards can serve multiple gamers on same graphic card.
Just to give you a fair idea of how powerful the card it, it can support up to 6 4K displays on just one of these graphics card.
AMD FirePro W8100 & W9100 Specifications
Model No. | AMD FirePro W8100 | AMD FirePro W9100 |
GPU | Hawaii GL-Pro | Hawaii-GL XT |
Compute Units | 40 | 44 |
Stream Processors | 2560 | 2816 |
Texture Units | 160 | 176 |
ROPs | 64 | 64 |
Core Clock | 824 MHz | 930 MHz |
Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1250 MHz |
Memory Size | 8 GB GDDR5 | 16 GB GDDR5 |
Memory Bus | 512-bit | 512-bit |
Compute Performance (Single Precision / Double Precision) | 4.20 / 2.10 | 5.24 / 2.76 |
TDP | 220W | 275W |
Pricing And Availability
These cards are available though official channel partners of AMD and also to the OEMs who are integrating them on their graphics intensive work-stations. The approximate suggested market price of the W9100 is around USD $4500 or Rs. 2,70,000.