AMD's Embedded Radeon E8950 MXM - 'Tonga XT' GPU with 2048 Stream Processors

[HKZeroFive]

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday introduced its new lineup of embedded graphics processing units designed for various special-purpose and professional applications. Among the new embedded graphics solutions that AMD introduced, there is AMD Embedded Radeon E8950 MXM module, which is based on the highly-anticipated “Tonga XT” silicon with all stream processors activated.

The AMD Embedded Radeon E8950 MXM module features 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units, 32 raster operations pipelines and 256-bit memory controller. The chip is based on the GCN 1.2 architecture, it fully supports decoding/encoding of ultra-high-definition videos using H.265 and H.264 codecs. The GPU is compatible with DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL, Mantle and Vulkan application programming interfaces. The small form-factor solution carries 8GB of GDDR5 memory and can drive up to six displays.

The AMD Embedded Radeon E8950 is the company’s most powerful and feature-rich embedded graphics solution designed for high-end casino and arcade gaming machines, medical imaging devices and military/aerospace applications. The product has maximum single precision compute performance of around 3TFLOPS.

“The demand for rich, vibrant graphics in embedded systems is greater than ever before, and that demand is growing,” said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD Embedded Solutions. “Our latest additions to the embedded product lineup help designers build mesmerizing user experiences with 4K multi-screen installations and 3-D and interactive displays. In addition, the powerful capabilities of our GPUs can address the toughest parallel compute challenges.”

In addition to the high-performance Radeon R8950, AMD also introduced slightly less powerful solutions, including the Radeon R8870MXM and the Radeon E8870PCIe with up to 768 stream processors as well as the Radeon E6465MCM, the E6465MXM and the E6465PCIe with up to 128 stream processors.

This pretty much 'confirms' that AMD should rollout a GPU (most likely the 380X) with the 'Tonga XT' chip. I suspect they'll announce it by the end of this year, as rumours have indicated it'll release in November. But still, on the topic of these embedded GPUs, they seem fairly powerful. Don't know much about embedded GPUs but those specs look pretty good to me

Sauce: http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov/amd-unveils-embedded-tonga-xt-graphics-chip-with-2048-stream-processors-256-bit-memory-bus/

[don_svetlio]

Came across it today - I wonder how it would perform

[Enderman]

Came across it today - I wonder how it would perform

better than a 380 and worse than a 390...?

[PlayStation 2]

*insert joke about this competing with the laptop 980*

[don_svetlio]

better than a 380 and worse than a 390...?

I mean the embedded chip

[Levent]

Came across it today - I wonder how it would perform

probably little worse than a 7970, (that was released in 2012)

[don_svetlio]

probably little worse than a 7970, (that was released in 2012)

380X? doubt it - it will at least be on par and thanks to Tongo's extremely better Tess performacne it should hold it's own against the 280X

[Levent]

380X? doubt it - it will at least be on par and thanks to Tongo's extremely better Tess performacne it should hold it's own against the 280X

I highly doubt that if results would be out of margin of error in case of both cards clocked same

[Spongy141]

If it will help get AMD make some more money to give up better GPU's then cool. I love it.

[Enderman]

380X? doubt it - it will at least be on par and thanks to Tongo's extremely better Tess performacne it should hold it's own against the 280X

well the specs put it a bit behind a 380...

just more vram

[don_svetlio]

well the specs put it a bit behind a 380...

just more vram

Those specs are for a 95W TDP card tho - that's less than the 960

[Enderman]

Those specs are for a 95W TDP card tho - that's less than the 960

true that

[don_svetlio]

true that

If AMD make a 380X that is as powerful as the 380 and consumes 120W and produces 95W of heat then the 960 will be dead for good

[Enderman]

If AMD make a 380X that is as powerful as the 380 and consumes 120W and produces 95W of heat then the 960 will be dead for good

yeah but this is for servers...

the 380x is rumored to be 300W

hopefully it isnt

[don_svetlio]

yeah but this is for servers...

the 380x is rumored to be 300W

hopefully it isnt

It won't be - 380 has a TDP of 190W and draws 180-190W (surprisingly it fits ) - it will likely be a 220-240TDP card and draw around the same

[ivan134]

yeah but this is for servers...

the 380x is rumored to be 300W

hopefully it isnt

Rumored by who? The 380 is 190W and the Fury is 300W. What moron started that rumor?

[Briggsy]

interesting to see their new embedded solutions rolling out. It's probably going to be AMD's money maker for a while if their predictions turn out correct.

[Enderman]

Rumored by who? The 380 is 190W and the Fury is 300W. What moron started that rumor?

have you tried googling "380x"?

[MageTank]

Now if only they could fix the next problem with MXM modules... their expense. 

[ivan134]

have you tried googling "380x"?

Those are rumors from back when we didn't even know the Fury line would be a thing and people were making stuff up saying the 380x would be in the position the 390x is now. Based on what we know about the 300 series now, I really don't understand how anyone can still be thinking the 380x will be even close to 300W. The 285/380 is an upgraded version of the 7950/280. 7950/280 was 250W. GCN 1.2 has better tessellation, color compression AND is more efficient than GCN 1.1 and 1.0. The 7950/280 and 285/380 botth have 1792 stream processors and yet the the 285/380 is 190W. Why would the 380x which is going to be an upgraded 7970/280x be 300W?

[Kobz360]

I was thinking the 380X was going to be this card - fully fledged Tonga XT with 2048 SPs. It would make logical sense given the 380/285 is the cut down version of this chip.

 

This card is pretty much an M295X (brought beyond the iMac limitation) with a reduction in TDP by 30W and with 8GB vram

[Curufinwe_wins]

snip

You mean they rereleased an 8GB version of the m295x?

 

BTW this is exactly what we thought when the m295x was released but it never came to fruition (that was back in late 2014)

[Richard Burton]

Its not a gaming GPU!!! We don't need all this discussion about it being better or worse than a 380/390, they're in completely different product segments.

[Prysin]

Now if only they could fix the next problem with MXM modules... their expense. 

 

I don't see that happening anytime soon

[Stefan1024]

Those specs are for a 95W TDP card tho - that's less than the 960

95 is still a massive amount of heat to deal with in the embedded world. Often there are a lot of very temperature sensitive sensors or precision amplifiers somewhere near to the compute unit due to space constrains. Also often they have to be next the dead silet since the operate next to people who are sleeping (e.g. medical device in a hospital).

Depending on the peoject you are working on, 95 watts TDP can be an engineeing nightmare. But when you really need the compute performance, you have to use a lot of power due to physics you can't bend.

But personally I consider a system using >10 watrs only to compute quite high pergormance (in the embedded world).