AMD has just announced its latest generation of professional series of graphics card. The new GPUs are from the new family of Radeon PRO W7000 series, which feature the company’s latest RDNA 3 architecture.
The popular American graphics card makers
launched the new cards for professionals and promises to offer higher
performance with better value over its predecessors. The new workstation GPUs
also feature the company’s proprietary chiplet design for improved performance
and power efficiency. It also comes with support AMD Radiance Display Engine as
well. The new cards include the new Radeon PRO W7900 and Radeon PRO W7800
graphics cards. The former is the flagship model and offers top end performance
for extreme tasks, while the latter is still capable of handling intensive
tasks.
AMD’s Radeon PRO W7900 features 48GB of
GDDR6 VRAM, offers 61 FLOPS (FP32) of performance, and offers 1.5x times higher
geomean performance on SPECviewperf 2020. On the other hand the Radeon PRO
W7800 features 32GB of GDDR6 VRAM and offers 45 TFLOPS (FP32) of performance.
Talking about some of their notable features, the new cards are based on the
brand’s RDNA 3 architecture, which promises 50 percent higher ray tracing performance
and better optimization for rendering, video edition, and more thanks to better
optimization for AEC, D&M, and M&E based workloads.
Furthermore, the new chiplet design is
based on the 5nm Graphics Compute Die along with six 6nm Memory Cache Die (MCD).
Other notable features include, support for DisplayPort 2.1, AV1 Encone/Decode,
Optimized Driver Performance promised by the company, dedicated AI acceleration
and second gen ray tracing technology. The AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series of
workstation GPUs start from 2,499 US Dollars for the W7800 model, while the
W7900 GPU costs 3,999 US Dollars. The cards will go on sale starting in the
second quarter of this year.
