Monday, February 11th 2019
AMD to Unlock Professional Features for Radeon VII to Blunt RTX 2080's Ray-tracing Edge
To add value and give it a feature-set edge over the GeForce RTX 2080, AMD is reportedly preparing to unlock several professional graphics features for the Radeon VII that are otherwise exclusive to Radeon Pro series graphics cards. These features will be released by simply adding Radeon VII support to the upcoming Radeon Pro 19.Q1 software suite. You uninstall your Radeon Adrenalin 2019 Edition drivers and replace them with the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers to access pro features.
These include access to ProRender, certifications for various 3D, CAD, and CGI suites, SecureMI security, enterprise virtualization, and more. Over 320 professional applications are certified for the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers, all of which will seamlessly run on the Radeon VII. AMD will also introduce a feature that lets you switch between the Radeon Pro and Radeon Adrenalin drivers on-the-fly (without needing reboots), so you don't lose your ability to play the latest games with day-one optimizations from AMD. These drivers will make the Radeon VII an incredible value in the enterprise space, as the GPU offers performance rivaling professional graphics cards priced well north of $3,000. It also blunts the feature-set edge the RTX 2080 holds over the Radeon VII.
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hardwareLUXX
These include access to ProRender, certifications for various 3D, CAD, and CGI suites, SecureMI security, enterprise virtualization, and more. Over 320 professional applications are certified for the Radeon Pro 19.Q1 drivers, all of which will seamlessly run on the Radeon VII. AMD will also introduce a feature that lets you switch between the Radeon Pro and Radeon Adrenalin drivers on-the-fly (without needing reboots), so you don't lose your ability to play the latest games with day-one optimizations from AMD. These drivers will make the Radeon VII an incredible value in the enterprise space, as the GPU offers performance rivaling professional graphics cards priced well north of $3,000. It also blunts the feature-set edge the RTX 2080 holds over the Radeon VII.
69 Comments on AMD to Unlock Professional Features for Radeon VII to Blunt RTX 2080's Ray-tracing Edge
If the cards prove to be stable in professional production then they will be very popular with pro people that are used to pay a lot for their cards.
Do you really don't know why they do it?
It's meant to attract this very specific kind of customer... who will be so amazed by the "pro features", that he'll buy this for gaming. We have lots of candidates on this forum :-)
We're discussing professional use of GPUs and you're still using the argument of what I own (the same one for almost a year).
As for use cases: I'm answering to a particular post that mentions AI. And the case of AI is pretty simple. CUDA dominated it. There's really no point in getting a Radeon.
You cannot publish in good journals, or use in biomedical research without stating the computation hardware has ECC support. It is not black and white and seriously frowned upon. Well at least in the field of genomics/epigenomics research that I work in.I dont get it why one specific member is constantly down voting you for stating a fact.
In scientific research CUDA absolutely DOMINATES. Scientists are there to solve medical problems, not spending days after days to make the software work.
Take a look at NCBI Pubmed publication with "CUDA" in keywords as it partially reflects the amount of work done/developed with CUDA:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=cuda
711 biology related publications
Purely just OpenCL
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=(opencl)%20NOT%20cuda
58 publications.
In my specific department, literally NO ONE buys AMD GPU for professional work, which inlcudes but not limited to protein docking simulation and genome alignment.
Point , price.
I don't expect gamers on a gaming-focused forum to know much about professional or scientific computing. It's shouldn't be important to them. And I'm not running around topics with gaming benchmarks saying "but in sucks in AI".
But as we touch other topics - computing, accelerating productivity software - why not simply be honest? :-)
This is a community after all and last time I checked communities were about sharing knowledge and experience, not getting votes. If I cared about votes, I'd be active on Instagram or Tinder instead. ;-)You don't understand costs and software development more than I understand your quasi-English.
As far as computing goes, Nvidia GPUs cost more to buy, but they cost less to use. That's the whole story.
And the irony I've been running scientific research flat out for years.
And I can show equally impressive amounts of scientific (legit) work done on Amd hardware, its like opencl and vulkan don't exist as does reallity.
AI does not need ecc.
I fully understand where ecc is and is not needed in scientific research , same goes for precision and im not arguing against some things being beyond Radeon VII but im not dillusional in the opposite direction either .
And as for the GPU, I put my money where my mouth was.. and used it to do scientific research most of the time with slight bouts of gaming , i except im a minority but im not in the minority of people who mouth off without buying their revered brand and doing something with it ??.
your on here saying i cant use my vega 64 or a VII for pro uses yet i think i still will , im not getting a VII though , no money, tut.:)
Heck I'd buy that! Price be damned...
makes sense to some apparently.
This card made no sense without Pro Drivers support.
Performance is there and now so are the features (at least some). But this is still not a workstation GPU.
Maybe it would make sense plugged into a server, but clearly not in a desktop.
Also, it still lacks pro support and stuff. I don't think any serious IT department would allow this into an office. There are policies for such things.
I doubt there are many non-nVidia or non-Intel hardware at big corporations' IT deprartments anyway.
The fact that those require no explaination to your boss when something goes wrong etc.
IT department is often the first to go when there are lay-offs, so I doubt many would take the "risks" either way.
I am thinking more from the hobbiest / Freelancer point of view.
"Its an evil company, crippling the GPUs deliberately...", " I will never buy Nvidia again..."
Now, AMD does the same thing, and everyone applauds. Go figure...
This is not a gaming card, if you want to compare this to something else, compare it to Quadro because it has a repurposed chip from MI50 with ECC memory. AMD is losing money just to compete with nvidia and investors soon be aware of it. If and when I get one of these cards, I'll be using on testing my ROCm platform, till then, this card is just a compute card, like all other amd cards, they all have brute force performance with extreme power consumption.
All of the amd processors, since the beginning of their time, consumed much more power compared to innovative companies. they must realize that this needs to stop somewhere.
While Nvidia on the other hand has the perfect "can I have the cake & eat it too" GPU with Titanz :rolleyes:
It's like people complaining about free cores on Phenoms or upgrading their AMD GPU's for free & more recently the Athlon 200GE.
Unlocked PRO feature, on what is not just a gaming card - oh wow Nvidia's the best!Radeon VII major USP should be gaming, that's it - whatever else there is, or not, should just be a bonus!