AMD FireStream

<p>AMD FireStream  was <a href="/facts/Advanced_Micro_Devices/CB1G7QTb">AMD's</a> brand name for their <a href="/facts/Radeon/U6y80fWr">Radeon</a>-based product line targeting <a href="/facts/Stream_processing/vXe6gkTT">stream processing</a> and/or <a href="/facts/GPGPU/roBwsPY2">GPGPU</a> in <a href="/facts/Supercomputer/HT9NwGAN">supercomputers</a>. Originally developed by <a href="/facts/ATI_Technologies/7hPl9Cqx">ATI Technologies</a> around the <a href="/facts/Radeon_X1000_series/x8PysrFS">Radeon X1900 XTX</a> in 2006, the product line was previously branded as both ATI FireSTREAM and AMD Stream Processor. The AMD FireStream can also be used as a <a href="/facts/Floating-point/eIckahxe">floating-point</a>  <a href="/facts/Co-processor/WsVXzAGo">co-processor</a> for offloading CPU calculations, which is part of the <a href="/facts/Torrenza/9KJDBp2c">Torrenza</a> initiative. The FireStream line has been discontinued since 2012, when GPGPU workloads were entirely folded into the <a href="/facts/AMD_FirePro/1y6natzA">AMD FirePro</a> line.
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AMD FireStream