{"id":89607,"date":"2016-04-18T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89607"},"modified":"2016-04-18T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T06:00:14","slug":"amds-powerful-32gb-firepro-gpu-will-dominate-vr-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89607-amds-powerful-32gb-firepro-gpu-will-dominate-vr-production","title":{"rendered":"AMD&#8217;s powerful 32GB FirePro GPU will dominate VR production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/en-us\/press-releases\/Pages\/amd-announces-world-2016apr14.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled<\/a><\/strong> its latest high-end graphics card &#8211; the FirePro W9100.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics card features 32GB of GDDR5 VRAM along with various improvements over previous iterations of the FirePro GPU.<\/p>\n<p>The FirePro is aimed at VR designers and is built to process a large amount of assets simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"DeltaPlaceHolderMain\">&#8220;With the new AMD FirePro W9100 32GB, AMD is unleashing the world\u2019s largest memory size professional workstation graphics card,\u201d said AMD. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"DeltaPlaceHolderMain\">\u201cAlong with exceptional hardware, AMD is also delivering software tools to leverage our high bandwidth and large memory GPU configurations effectively.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p>AMD introduced its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/tools-and-sdks\/graphics-development\/firepro-sdk\/amd-firerender-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\">FireRender <\/a><\/strong>software alongside the FirePro W9100 GPU. FireRender is specialised rendering software which is compatible with a variety of hardware and provides powerful rendering tools to the user.<\/p>\n<p>AMD&#8217;s FirePro W9100 32GB GPU is a direct competitor to Nvidia&#8217;s Quadro M6000 24 GB GPU, and is aimed at professional users seeking the ultimate workstation solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The card will sell for\u00a0$4,999.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"myg_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\">AMD FirePro W9100 Specifications<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><strong>GPU Core<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">Hawaii XT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Compute Units<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Core Count<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2816<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Core Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>930 MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>VRAM<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>32 GB GDDR5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Memory Bus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>512-Bit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Memory Clock<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>5.0 GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Memory Bandwidth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>320 GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>TDP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>275W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What to study to become a game developer\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88651-what-to-study-to-become-a-game-developer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What to study to become a game developer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tokyo 42 is the best-looking game of 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/88925-tokyo-42-is-the-best-looking-game-of-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tokyo 42 is the best-looking game of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Should your internet history remain private?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/89527-should-your-internet-history-remain-private.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Should your internet history remain private?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has unveiled its latest high-end graphics card &#8211; the FirePro W9100 with 32GB GDDR5 memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":89609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18081,1051,18079,1121,18085,6477,18083],"class_list":["post-89607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-32gb","tag-amd","tag-firepro","tag-memory","tag-professional","tag-vr","tag-workstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}