AMD FirePro W9100 Professional Graphics Card Comes With 32GB Memory
At the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, AMD announced the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB -- the first workstation graphics card with 32GB memory support. Planned for availability in Q2 2016, the new FirePro W9100 is AMD's response to Nvidia's recently announced 24GB Quadro M6000 solution.
The updated FirePro W9100 is based around a fully enabled version of AMD's Hawaii GPU. AMD has replaced their 4Gb GDDR5 chips with 8Gb chips, moving from a 32 x 4Gb configuration to a 32 x 8Gb configuration.
| AMD FirePro W9100 (32GB) | AMD FirePro W9100 (16GB) | AMD FirePro W9000 | |
| Stream Processors | 2816 | 2816 | 2048 |
| Texture Units | 176 | 176 | 128 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 32 |
| Core Clock | 930MHz | 930MHz | 975MHz |
| Memory Clock | 5GHz GDDR5 | 5GHz GDDR5 | 5.5GHz GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 512-bit | 512-bit | 384-bit |
| VRAM | 32GB | 16GB | 6GB |
| Double Precision | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/4 |
| Transistor Count | 6.2B | 6.2B | 4.31B |
| TDP | 275W | 275W | 274W |
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.1 | GCN 1.1 | GCN 1.0 |
| Warranty | 3-Year | 3-Year | 3-Year |
| Launch Price (List) | $4999 | $3999 | $3999 |
The 32GB FirePro W9100 will be launching this quarter at an MSRP will be $4999.
AMD also introduced the AMD FireRender plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max? which enables VR storytellers to bring ideas to life through 4K workflows.
