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Originally Posted by Xzibit

From the Press Release it looked to be aimed at Quadro.

Well, firstly, since there is no longer a FireStream product line, FirePro is now aimed at HPC (hence being unveiled at SC12) , as well as workstation. I'll let Dave Baumann (AMD Product Manager) make the distinction:

"S" pretty much stands for server, and these are targetted towards number crunching workloads not CAD workloads; Visualisation and sim are more maths problems. So these are more inline with prior "Firestream" offering than Quadro competitors

Secondly, there will be a GK110 Quadro. Bank it. There has never been a Tesla part that didn't have a Quadro counterpart

Originally Posted by Xzibit

The market i think they are aiming for is SP users with no DP or minimal DP workload who want to save $ & space.

Which is what I meant by "niche". SP performance in a relatively compact form factor ( a desktop ATX specification) where noise and performance per watt are irrelevant. What make it even more niche is the fact that the 7970X2/7990 offer the same functionality for single precision and cost a fifth of the price.

Of course, if the application requires single precision performance, a K20 isn't required. A K10 (4.58TFlop/s FP32) would suffice, and even using Amazon's/Sabre PC inflated prices ($3200) the numbers are a lot closer than what you're painting.

S10000...$3599...5.91TFlop....1.64 GFlop/$....15.76 GFlop/watt
K10........$3200...4.85TFlop....1.51 GFlop/$....21.56 GFlop/watt