Videogame technology firm AMD has unveiled new a new 12GB graphics card for big data high-performance computing.
Based on the AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, the AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Edition graphics card comes with support for PCI Express 3.0 and for use with the OpenCL compute programming language, while featuring ECC memory with DirectGMA support.
The card can be used across a wide array of verticals and AMD’s professional graphics director, David Cummings, said it was customers asked for a system that offers increased memory to support larger data sets as they create new products and services.
"In response, we’re announcing this graphics card to meet that additional memory demand with support for OpenCL and high-end compute and graphics technologies," Cummings said.
The card is expected to be available from spring 2014.
