AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — – AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announ­ced the AMD Embedded Rade­on™ E9170 Series gra­phics pro­ces­sing unit (GPU). The new pro­ces­sor is the first “Pola­ris” archi­tec­tu­re-based AMD Embedded dis­crete GPU available in mul­ti-chip modu­le (MCM) for­mat with inte­gra­ted memo­ry for smal­ler, power-effi­ci­ent cus­tom designs, as well as PCI Express® and MXM for­mats for stan­dard form fac­tor sys­tems. The E9170 Series GPU is ide­al for devices that requi­re pre­mi­um gra­phics and expan­ded dis­play capa­bi­li­ties while mee­ting exac­ting power and ther­mal effi­ci­en­cy demands. AMD is exten­ding its core gra­phics tech­no­lo­gy, deli­ve­ring crys­tal clear reso­lu­ti­on and a stun­ning and seam­less 4K expe­ri­ence across mul­ti­ple dis­plays to a gro­wing num­ber of mar­kets, inclu­ding digi­tal casi­no games, thin cli­ents, medi­cal dis­plays, retail and digi­tal signage, and indus­tri­al systems.

The AMD Embedded Rade­on E9173 GPU, based on the “Pola­ris” archi­tec­tu­re, lever­a­ges an opti­mi­zed 14nm Fin­FET manu­fac­tu­ring pro­cess to pro­vi­de up to 3X the per­for­mance-per-watt over pre­vious gene­ra­ti­ons of AMD Embedded GPUs^(*). By offe­ring sub-40W TDP in a small packa­ge, AMD enables a broa­der ran­ge of pro­ducts, adding a new level of sca­la­bi­li­ty to the AMD Rade­on™ Power-Effi­ci­ent Embedded GPU port­fo­lio. With sup­port for up to five simul­ta­neous 4K dis­plays^(**), the E9170 Series GPU vir­tual­ly eli­mi­na­tes the need for addi­tio­nal pro­ces­sors and dupli­ca­te hard­ware to crea­te an immersi­ve mul­ti­me­dia envi­ron­ment. Addi­tio­nal­ly, the opti­on to sel­ect from MCM, MXM and PCI Express modu­les increa­ses design fle­xi­bi­li­ty while mini­mi­zing complexity.

“Deve­lo­pers are con­ti­nuing to push the boun­da­ries on what’s pos­si­ble for embedded sys­tems, deman­ding more per­for­mance, more fea­tures and more design opti­ons, all while signi­fi­cant­ly redu­cing power con­sump­ti­on. At the GPU level, it is cri­ti­cal to pro­vi­de ver­sa­ti­le solu­ti­ons that do not com­pro­mi­se on gra­phics per­for­mance or 4K mul­ti-dis­play capa­bi­li­ties,” said Colin Cure­ton, direc­tor of pro­duct manage­ment, AMD Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons. “The new AMD Embedded Rade­on E9170 Series GPU not only achie­ves up to 3X the per­for­mance-per-watt over pre­vious solu­ti­ons, but is the first ‘Polaris’-based Embedded GPU available in the MCM form fac­tor to enable sleek designs in a varie­ty of sizes, striking the opti­mal balan­ce of per­for­mance and power efficiency.”

Key Application Benefits of the E9170 Series

• Digi­tal casi­no games: Hel­ping redu­ce ener­gy con­sump­ti­on and ope­ra­ting cos­ts, the E9170 Series GPU cuts down on ope­ra­ting cos­ts for ent­ry level and midran­ge casi­no gam­ing sys­tems, as well as lowers ther­mal dis­si­pa­ti­on that impacts faci­li­ty air con­di­tio­ning cos­ts. Sup­port for five inde­pen­dent and simul­ta­neous dis­plays allows com­pa­nies to crea­te an eye-cat­ching expe­ri­ence with more pixels and more action. DirectX® 12 sup­port enables hig­her frames per second and redu­ced laten­cy, and cross-plat­form Vul­kan® API sup­port helps ensu­re bet­ter image qua­li­ty while decre­asing CPU pro­ces­sing bottlenecks.
• Thin cli­ents: Thin cli­ents powered by the E9170 Series GPU can have a smal­ler hard­ware foot­print than tra­di­tio­nal PC sys­tems, and can have lower heat out­put and pro­vi­de coo­ler workspaces in den­se­ly-staf­fed and space-cons­trai­ned envi­ron­ments such as stock exch­an­ge tra­ding flo­ors. Addi­tio­nal­ly, 4K gra­phics reso­lu­ti­on pro­vi­des crisp visu­al cla­ri­ty when thin cli­ents are in split-screen dis­play mode, impro­ving the end-user experience.
• Medi­cal dis­plays: The high-per­for­mance 4K gra­phics reso­lu­ti­on in the E9170 Series GPU helps impro­ve the accu­ra­cy of cli­ni­cal dia­gno­ses in X‑Ray machi­nes and ultra­sounds as well as with bone tis­sue and ana­ly­sis, hel­ping medi­cal pro­fes­sio­nals to enhan­ce pati­ent care.
• Retail and digi­tal signage: Cost-con­scious signage com­pa­nies inte­gra­ting the E9170 Series GPU can dri­ve up to five simul­ta­neous 4K dis­plays for a stun­ning visu­al expe­ri­ence that holds view­er atten­ti­on wit­hout incur­ring a pre­mi­um pro­ces­sor price.
• Indus­tri­al: The Rade­on E9170 Series GPU in the relia­ble MCM for­mat enables the sta­bi­li­ty requi­red for the most strin­gent shock and vibra­ti­on tests in envi­ron­ments such as air­plane cock­pits, in addi­ti­on to dri­ving mul­ti­ple displays.

Key Features of the E9170 Series GPU

• Up to 1.25 TFLOPS at sub-40W TDP board power, set­ting a new bench­mark within the AMD Rade­on Power-Effi­ci­ent Embedded GPU port­fo­lio by deli­ve­ring up to 3X the per­for­mance-per-watt over pre­vious generations.
• 4K opti­miza­ti­on and fle­xi­ble mul­ti-dis­play con­fi­gu­ra­bi­li­ty to enable rich mul­ti­me­dia and design versatility.
• Fea­tures include 4K HEVC/H.265^(***) and AVC/H.264 decode and encode, and up to five dis­play out­puts using HDMI® 2.0 and/or Dis­play­Po­rt 1.4.
• Available in com­pact MCM, stan­dard MXM and PCI Express card form factors.
• Plan­ned avai­la­bi­li­ty through 2024 to ensu­re sup­port con­ti­nui­ty for long-life­cy­cle pro­ducts and next-gene­ra­ti­on designs.
• 4K and 3D sup­port ensu­res unpar­al­le­led visu­al immersion.
• 4GB memo­ry (128bit GDDR5) for high-per­for­mance needs.

Partner Support

Quix­ant

“Quix­ant is a long-term AMD part­ner and we have suc­cessful­ly imple­men­ted seve­ral gene­ra­ti­ons of high-per­for­mance GPUs for various casi­no gam­ing sys­tems,” said Nick Jar­ma­ny, Chief Exe­cu­ti­ve Offi­cer, Quix­ant. “The new AMD Rade­on GPU in the MCM form fac­tor pro­vi­des us with the com­pe­ti­ti­ve per­for­mance advan­ta­ge we expect from AMD, while also dri­ving down power con­sump­ti­on so we can deli­ver advan­ced, eye-cat­ching con­tent on a 4K dis­play in a com­pact, cost-effec­ti­ve packa­ge, kee­ping our cus­to­mers at the top of their game.”

Eizo

“Over the last 10 years, Eizo Rug­ged Solu­ti­ons has part­ne­red with AMD Embedded to suc­cessful­ly bring high­ly relia­ble and rug­ged gra­phics, video cap­tu­re and enco­ding pro­ducts to seve­ral lar­ge defen­se pro­grams,” said Sel­wyn L Hen­ri­ques, Pre­si­dent and Chief Exe­cu­ti­ve Offi­cer, Eizo Rug­ged Solu­ti­ons. “AMD’s unwa­ve­ring com­mit­ment to the embedded mar­ket, inclu­ding long pro­duct life­cy­cles and GPUs with high per­for­mance-per-watt, has enab­led us to offer our cus­to­mers excep­tio­nal video solu­ti­ons that meet or exceed their needs and mini­mi­ze TCO. The new Eizo XMC and 3U VPX pro­ducts, based on the AMD Embedded Rade­on E9170 Series GPU, will help us deli­ver even hig­her per­for­mance and con­ti­nue to expand our cus­to­mer base.”

Availability

The AMD Embedded Rade­on E9170 Series GPU in PCI Express and MXM modu­le con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons are plan­ned to be available in Octo­ber 2017, and the E9170 Series GPU MCM modu­le con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on is plan­ned for Novem­ber 2017.

^(*) AMD Embedded Rade­on™ E6760 with 6 com­pu­te units (CU) and con­fi­gu­red at stan­dard engi­ne clock speed 600 MHz can reach a maxi­mum of 461 GFLOPS SP within ther­mal design power (TDP) of 30W, yiel­ding 15.36 GFLOPS/W.  AMD Embedded Rade­on™ E9173 with 8 CUs and con­fi­gu­red at stan­dard engi­ne clock speed 1124 MHz can reach a maxi­mum of 1151 GFLOPS SP within TDP of 25W, yiel­ding 46.04 GFLOPS/W, achie­ving near­ly 3x per­for­mance-per-watt com­pared to AMD Embedded Radeon™

^(**) Num­ber of dis­plays sup­port­ed varies by model.

^(***) HEVC acce­le­ra­ti­on is sub­ject to inclusion/installation of com­pa­ti­ble HEVC players