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General Category => General CG Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: cecofuli on 2015-07-09, 00:58:22

Title: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: cecofuli on 2015-07-09, 00:58:22

Welcome to the 32 RAM on GPU  =)

LINK (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2945375/amds-new-firepro-professional-graphics-card-packs-an-insane-32gb-of-ram.html)

Title: Re: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: Javadevil on 2015-07-09, 02:13:14

Wooh ! I'd love one but it will probably cost more than couple of high spec PC's.

It sure will be interesting to see Corona running on it.

Title: Re: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: tomislavn on 2015-07-09, 08:31:27

Quote from: Javadevil on 2015-07-09, 02:13:14

It sure will be interesting to see Corona running on it.

Corona surely won't benefit at all with this card :) since it is not a GPU based render engine (at least for now). AMD Fire Render on the other hand... :)

Title: Re: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: Javadevil on 2015-07-09, 08:36:58

Quote from: tomislavn on 2015-07-09, 08:31:27

Quote from: Javadevil on 2015-07-09, 02:13:14

It sure will be interesting to see Corona running on it.

Corona surely won't benefit at all with this card :) since it is not a GPU based render engine (at least for now). AMD Fire Render on the other hand... :)

Well derr, of course I am talking AMD fire, since its and AMD card. :) So one day, not now, but it will be useful.
Pity these cards don't run cuda.

Title: Re: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: romullus on 2015-07-11, 14:44:53

Jeez, my pc had 8 times less system memory just a year ago!

Title: Re: GPU with 32 GB RAM: FirePro S9170
Post by: Ludvik Koutny on 2015-07-11, 19:08:10

It may have 32GB, but it's still not CUDA compatible, and since CUDA is a lot more capable than openCL, then use of this Radeon for GPU rendering will be very limited. Hopefully it will at least push nVidia to release their 32GB GPU :)