Wednesday, January 18th 2017
AMD's Radeon Pro Duo Deeply Discounted on Expected Vega Onslaught
Inventory clearing is as much a part of business as breathing is part of life; as such, various retailers have apparently started to offer deep, deep discounts on AMD's past technology in the form of their Radeon Pro Duo - the once and still king of the hill in the red camp, where performance and technology is concerned.
But as the "out with the old, in with the new" adage still stands, retailers are now clearing inventory of their Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards, sometimes offering almost 50% off from the original launch price of $1499. Newegg, for example, has the card for $799 on both their North American and Asia Pacific online stores.
While still built on the now old-news 28nm process, and in a dual-chip solution to boot, AMD's Radeon Pro Duo remains a crowning achievement for the company, at least when it comes to the amount and novelty of incorporated technology; and while merits of dual-GPU solutions can certainly be debated, no one can deny the sheer power of this behemoth of a graphics card, which packs a grand total of 8192 stream processors delivering a staggering 16.38 TFLOPs of FP32 compute and two stacks of 4 GB of the highly-costly, and highly exotic, HBM 1 memory. If you want to get your hands on a brand new piece on this part of AMD's particular history, resellers will tell you that now is the time.
Source:
WCCFTech
But as the "out with the old, in with the new" adage still stands, retailers are now clearing inventory of their Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards, sometimes offering almost 50% off from the original launch price of $1499. Newegg, for example, has the card for $799 on both their North American and Asia Pacific online stores.
63 Comments on AMD's Radeon Pro Duo Deeply Discounted on Expected Vega Onslaught
Forget the benchies. Those games are cheery picked from the ones that have some multicard support, but for some of the indie games I'm playing CF/SLI is an utopia.
I think thats a good start
and if I look here:
www.hardocp.com/article/2015/10/06/amd_radeon_r9_fury_x_crossfire_at_4k_review/4
I can see dual fury X beats 980ti in sli so a single gtx1080 blowing the produo sideways....again, hard time believing that
SLI/Crossfire seemed to be at their biggest boom during the Eyefinity/Surround days. Once all of the frametime stuff came to light a couple years ago they slowly started dying off.
Crossfire as of recent seems to have much better performance/scaling across the board compared to SLI but this past year or two has been awful to mGPU as far as support goes. I can see it having a future in the VR space and that's about it. Some of the improvement's promised by DX12/Vulkan seem great but I think we are a couple years away from an actual working/stable implementation.
And as was already stated, the cards aimed at professional users not gamers. It's excellent value for it's intended use.
This is not true. All Pro gamers are using top single cards in order to reduce input delay and micro stuttering as much as possible. ;)
As for the Professional use; neh, there are better FireGL or Quatro cards dedicated for that purpose.