AMD has introduced the Radeon Pro W7000 series graphics cards
Following the announcement of the Radeon 7000 series graphics cards with RDNA 3 architecture at the end of last year, AMD has now introduced the Radeon Pro W7000 series graphics cards for professional graphics applications, also employing the RDNA 3 architectural design.
AMD emphasizes that the RDNA 3-based Radeon Pro W7000 series graphics cards target significant enhancements in display performance, cost-effectiveness, and stability, while also being the first to feature DisplayPort 2.1 ports with nearly 80 Gbit/s (actual 77.4 Gbit/s) bandwidth. These cards cater to media entertainment content production, professional design, and manufacturing applications, as well as modeling and engineering research domains.
Within the RDNA 3 architecture, AMD continues with small chiplet stacking, fabricated using TSMC’s 5nm process, and pairs it with 6nm display cache memory. Additionally, each computes unit incorporates 64 dual-issue stream processors, two AI accelerators, and a second-generation RT accelerator.
The newly-designed media compute engine supports twice the synchronous decompression stream performance, up to 8K 60fps AV1 format video encoding and decoding, and AI-enhanced video encoding capabilities. It is compatible with DisplayPort 2.1 ports for 8K 60fps 4:4:4 format video output and 30 bpp HDR10 format. In the future, it will accommodate 8K 120fps (compressed), 8K 60fps lossless compression, and 12K 60fps (compressed) video output capabilities.
The Radeon Pro W7900 features 96 compute units and 48GB of 384-bit GDDR6 display memory with ECC error-checking and correction, delivering 61 TFLOPS of peak single-precision (FP32) performance and a total power consumption of 295W.
The Radeon Pro W7800, on the other hand, has 70 compute units, 32GB of 256-bit GDDR6 display memory with ECC, and achieves 45 TFLOPS of peak single-precision performance, consuming 260W.
Compared to the previous Radeon Pro W6800, the Radeon Pro W7900 offers a 1.5x increase in memory capacity, enhancing large-scale 3D modeling, multitasking, and intense RAW file computation. With the inclusion of DisplayPort 2.1 ports, the W7900 delivers a 3x higher maximum data transfer rate, supporting richer color display output and screen display performance. Furthermore, it achieves a 1.5x performance improvement in SPECviewperf Geomean tests, addressing the needs of more complex professional graphics computations.
Suggested retail prices are set at $3,999 for the Radeon Pro W7900 and $2,499 for the Radeon Pro W7800, both expected to launch in the second quarter of this year.
AMD stresses that, compared to NVIDIA’s RTX 6000 Ada with Ada Lovelace architecture or the older RTX A6000 professional graphics cards, the Radeon Pro W7900 holds a competitive edge in display performance, output specifications, power consumption, and pricing. Similarly, the Radeon Pro W7800 boasts better cost performance than NVIDIA’s RTX A5500.
