Tuesday, March 15th 2016
AMD Unveils the Radeon Pro Duo Graphics Card
AMD unveiled its latest flagship graphics card, the Radeon Pro Duo. The card is designed for "creators who game, and gamers who create," as the tagline goes. It is a dual-GPU graphics card based on a pair of 28 nm "Fiji" chips, the same ones which drive the R9 Fury X and the R9 Nano. AMD is positioning this card in the gray-area between consumer graphics cards, and FirePro workstation products, as a new "workstation-class" product. Perhaps this allows the company to get away with things such as three 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
The Radeon Pro Duo features two "Fiji" GPUs in their maximum core configuration - 4,096 stream processors, 256 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, each; with 4 GB of HBM memory, each. The card hence packs a total of 8 GB HBM memory, and 16 TFLOP/s total single-precision floating-point performance. The card features a liquid-cooling solution designed by Cooler Master, with a thick 120 mm x 120 mm radiator that's similar to the one that ships with the R9 Fury X. The card's display output configuration is similar to the R9 Fury X, too, with three DisplayPort 1.2a and one HDMI 1.4a connectors. AMD is going ahead and claiming the title of "World's Fastest Graphics Card." The Radeon R9 Pro Duo is expected to be priced at US $1,499.
The Radeon Pro Duo features two "Fiji" GPUs in their maximum core configuration - 4,096 stream processors, 256 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, each; with 4 GB of HBM memory, each. The card hence packs a total of 8 GB HBM memory, and 16 TFLOP/s total single-precision floating-point performance. The card features a liquid-cooling solution designed by Cooler Master, with a thick 120 mm x 120 mm radiator that's similar to the one that ships with the R9 Fury X. The card's display output configuration is similar to the R9 Fury X, too, with three DisplayPort 1.2a and one HDMI 1.4a connectors. AMD is going ahead and claiming the title of "World's Fastest Graphics Card." The Radeon R9 Pro Duo is expected to be priced at US $1,499.
87 Comments on AMD Unveils the Radeon Pro Duo Graphics Card
Two words: F.Y.
edit - found it. Yup, 4Gb effective at $1500. There really isn't any consumer value to this product, hence the professional level marketing.
But then again, I though no sane person will pay 1000$ for a phone ... and yet people stay in the queue to buy them.
So yes, I guess, in the end, this will also sell like hot cakes, as in the GPU market, for now, it is indeed something special.
BTW that PCB and cooler combo looks f-ing bananas!!! *-*
Dual gpu cards are always extra expensive. Also it seems amd are promoting this card as semi professional, probably like Titans used to be.
The original Fury X2 (bottom) was perhaps intended to be air cooled, but had to sacrifice performance? So instead they went to increase power, performance and slap an AIO on it.
Perhaps first card was indeed dual Nano but with the Radeon Pro VR shift perhaps they wanted more power, so needed to redesign the board?
I just want the prices to go back to sane and normal level like theer were a couple of years back when I bought my brand new ATI 4870X2 for 600$.
Cheers!
Well it looks fine, name is a little funky but at least we finally get a dual GPU card this round.
.... and these have the same power use.