14 DAY TRIAL // The Radeon line of graphics cards is just a part of AMD's product lineup. Another, just as important part, is the FirePro line of professional video boards.
It so happens that an upcoming member of the latter series has been spotted, and a screenshot has been published of its Catalyst Control Center hardware information.
What we are looking at is the FirePro W8100 graphics adapter, featuring HawaiiGL40 graphics processing unit.
Some were hoping that this would be a product based on the Tonga GPU. You know, the chip that will supposedly challenge NVIDIA's Maxwell architecture. This is not the case, obviously.
That said, the Gl40 Hawaii GPU has 40 compute units, 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and an interface of 512 bits. The performance (floating point) will be of 4.7 TFLOPS.
It is, also, arriving early, as it was seen at the Computex 2014 booth that AMD set up. Before this, everyone was operating by the information that the adapter wouldn't come out, or even be seen in the flesh, before June 23.
Now, it seems that Sapphire is getting ready to sell the thing in the first half of the month. Now we just have to wait and see how much better the Tonga will be (the name of the card based on it is FirePro W9100).
