Monday, July 3rd 2017
AMD Readies Radeon Pro WX 9100: Vega for Professionals
After releasing the Vega Frontier Edition, AMD's take on a "prosumer" GPU which straddles the line between a professional and gaming graphics card, with somewhat mixed results, AMD is apparently now working on the fully professional version of the Vega silicon. Identified as the Radeon Pro WX 9100 (which is in line with AMD's current professional nomenclature), this professional graphics card will look to fully accelerate professional workloads, with a driver specifically crafted for such.
Recently rearing its head on CompuBench, the GPU features a low 1200 MHz clock speed, which is around 402 MHz lower than the Frontier Edition, and supposedly lower still than the Gaming RX Vega variant of the GPU. The Vega-based WX 9100 joins the Polaris-based WX 7100, WX 5100 and WX 4100 professional graphics cards, thus apparently topping out AMD's professional line-up for the year.
Source:
Videocardz
Recently rearing its head on CompuBench, the GPU features a low 1200 MHz clock speed, which is around 402 MHz lower than the Frontier Edition, and supposedly lower still than the Gaming RX Vega variant of the GPU. The Vega-based WX 9100 joins the Polaris-based WX 7100, WX 5100 and WX 4100 professional graphics cards, thus apparently topping out AMD's professional line-up for the year.
33 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon Pro WX 9100: Vega for Professionals
Edit: Sure, it's a near copy of the Titan tactic used by Nvidia just so they can fill a similar spot in their lineup of GPUs based on the same silicon that will be used by RX Vega and Pro WX cards, unless RTG pulls a rabbit out of a hat for RX, which is unlikely so far, it's just too close to release now.
Anyway, if RX Vega is priced well, I don't really care if it doesn't push the envelope, that thunder belongs to Navi.
They could do it, it would almost be like going from Fermi to Kepler, but the die is most likely still going to be 14nm. So I guess the efficiency increase they can gain would be kinda low.
Remember how we had 28nm GPU's for so long and how both parties were trying their hardest to get every inch of performance out of it?
Oh no, I'm rambling again.
As for the other cards... it's a mystery. To be honest they could just shift the models (2060 := 1070 etc) and add a Volta-based flagship. Again: +20-40% performance.
Pascal is so energy efficient that doing this would not make the cards hugely power-hungry. 1070 draws merely 30W more than 1060 - that's easily acceptable - especially when you look what's currently happening in the red camp.
Whoo.
Titan, ever since OG Titan started cannabilising Quadro sales, is just an early release + 100% markup gaming card of whatever big die Nvidia is using that generation.
The FE's are an interesting card, but the target market seems... limited all in all.
These guys know how to do launches.
I feel the same about mining and crypto currency though, they work almost exactly the same as regular currency but the luck found in "creating" this wealth will eventually stop and it will experience hyperinflation, the most vulnerable will pay the price as it crashes. Pros know this and play the market just like regular stock, consumers may be left high and dry when the inversion happens and the money they invested will disappear.