AMD unveiled the Radeon Pro VII, a new professional video card which is aimed at specific sectors of the market, from Computer-Aided Engineering simulations (CAE) more complex allo development of HPC applications, up to the multimedia transmission industry.
The Radeon Pro VII calls the Radeon VII in its name and in fact shares it GPU, Vega 20 (7 nanometers), already used in the world of datacenters with the Radeon Instinct proposals. The GPU on the Radeon Pro VII matters 3840 stream processor, just like the Radeon Instinct MI50. Next to the graphics chip we find 16 GB of HBM2 ECC memory which ensures a bandwidth of 1 TB / s on a 4096 bit bus. The card has a PCI Express 4.0 x16 interface and can be combined with other solutions thanks to a $ 199 Infinity Fabric Link bridge for fast communications (up to 168 GB / s) between GPUs in parallel.
The Radeon Pro VII It will debut in mid-June at $ 1899 and will arrive on workstations in the second half of the year by the main OEMs. It is a price below the $ 2299 of Nvidia's Quadro RTX 5000, solution with which the Radeon Pro VII wants to compete.
The new born of AMD is equipped with six mini DisplayPort 1.4 outputs, supports 8K and guarantees a computing power of 13.1 TFLOPs with single precision floating point calculations (FP32) e 6.5 TFLOPs in double precision (FP64). The card has a 250W TBP and is powered by two PCIe connectors, one 8-pin and one 6-pin.
The power that AMD plays is precisely the double precision computing power to conquer the hearts (and wallets) of companies engaged in multiple sectors, where Nvidia cards stop at much lower values (except for the Quadro GV100, which however costs $ 8999). The FP64 performance of the AMD card is not limited in any way, while for example the Radeon VII offers a quarter of the FP32 computing power.
According to AMD the new Radeon Pro VII offers up to 26% more performance than the RTX 5000 during the 8K image process in DaVinci Resolve and similar or better performance in many other areas and workloads as you can see from some of the slides that AMD has provided us and that we show you in this article.
Along with the new proposal, AMD also unveiled ProRender 2.0, the rendering software that offers improved rendering algorithms and new and updated plug-ins for Unreal Engine, SideFX Houdini, Autodesk Maya and Blender. The company also released the second professional driver release of the year, Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2, which can improve performance compared to release 19.Q2 up to 14% in SPECviewperf 13.