AMD challenges NVIDIA Quadro: features and price of the Radeon Pro VII video card

AMD he presented Radeon Pro VII, high performance professional graphics card intended for workstations and optimized especially for areas such as CAE simulations (Computer-Aided Engineering) and developing HPC applications.

Radeon Pro VII uses a Vega 20 GPU – the same architecture of the Radeon Pro Vega II presented last summer – built with a 7 nanometer production process, a decidedly impressive chip, equipped with 60 CU and well 3840 Stream Processor. The memory department is equally valid and expected 16GB of HBM2 memory which, thanks to the large 4096-bit bus, manages to offer a bandwidth of up to 1 TB / s.

With this hardware equipment, the Radeon VII Pro guarantees a computing power of 13.1 TFLOPS in FP32 and about 6.5 TFLOPS in FP64. It should also be noted that the card uses the interface PCI-E Gen 4.0 and supports AMD Infinity Fabric Link technology, a low latency, high bandwidth connection that allows you to speed up and optimize communication between GPUs in Multi-GPU configurations.

AMD Radeon VII Pro will be available from mid-June to $ 1,899; We also point out that, together with the new professional card, AMD has also announced the updated version of the AMD Rendering Software and of Radeon Pro Software for Enteprise 20.Q2, a new driver that guarantees a performance increase of up to 14% compared to the previous version.

The new Radeon VII Pro will compete with NVIDIA Quadro based on Turing architecture, however we remember that just today NVIDIA could announce interesting news about it (see GPU Ampere at 7nm) in the event that collects the news expected initially for the GTC then canceled because of the pandemic.