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LabRat 891Whoa. That's, like what? *FOUR* 7900XTXs?

Guess the double VRAM and 'pro featured' VBIOS is worth quite a lot. Wow!

FiredropsThe best part of this launch is that this lets bios modders figure out how to make the 7900/GRE/XT/XTX recognize up to 48GB for DIY VRAM modding. If AMD ever truly figures out a CUDA alternative in all but PRs, and/or support cross attention, modded 7900s could be great value for budget LLM/SD.

HBSoundGenerally, AMD only produces this GPU.
It's nice to see this come to pass.

So, in the same way that PNY has the professional cards covered for Nividia, Gigabyte is doing the same thing for AMD.

Neo_MorpheusGood point.

But kind of weird that it wasnt a closer partner, like Powercolor, Sapphire or XFX.

PatriotThey have, ROCm is just linux only... but with this months point release they brought it to WSL so you can run it on windows.... sort of.

PatriotSapphire makes the reference cards. Asrock and gigabyte sell gpu severs, and workstations....these are for them.

Neo_MorpheusAlso with Zluda, they can use straight cuda code or something similar.

Sorry, not well informed on the matter, only glimpsed at the article.


Makes sense, but I thought that Powercolor did the reference cards.

There is a common misconception that Sapphire make AMD's reference cards.

This is false.

Scott Herkelman, CVP & GM AMD Radeon, was asked in an episode of PCWorld's Full Nerd if Sapphire makes AMD's reference GPUs and his answer was NO. (Thanks T1beriu for finding this)

So who makes AMD's reference cards?

It's actually PC Partner Group, the company that sells video cards under the ZOTAC brand.

If you look at engineering samples of AMD's cards from the last 10 years or so, you'll see that they have stickers labeling them as products of "PC Partner Ltd."

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PC Partner is, in fact, the largest contract manufacturer of AMD cards.

www.pcgamesn.com/how-nvidia-amd-graphics-card-are-made

There is another misconception that PC Partner owns Sapphire.

This is also false.

As mentioned by Sapphire's own CEO, PC Partner is contracted to make Sapphire cards.

www.hexus.net/tech/features/graphics/4393-interview-sapphire-ceo-k-d-au/?page=2

PC Partner manufactures products for a wide range of companies such as Dell, AMD, Acer, Samsung, Sapphire, LG, Microsoft.

www.pcgamesn.com/how-nvidia-amd-graphics-card-are-made

Saying that PC Partner Group owns Sapphire would be like saying that Foxconn owns TUL Corporation (the company that sell video cards under the PowerColor brand). Foxconn does contract manufacturing for TUL Corporation, but doesn't own TUL Corporation or the PowerColor brand.

Neo_MorpheusAlso with Zluda, they can use straight cuda code or something similar.

Sorry, not well informed on the matter, only glimpsed at the article.

R-T-BYep, pro and enterprise is shockingly expensive. They know the people they target make money with these cards, and won't blink to pay such prices, so...

Neo_MorpheusYou are Right and at the same time wrong. :)

But now we know for sure.

Per this reddit post:



Amd/comments/nwqjzk

FiredropsThe best part of this launch is that this lets bios modders figure out how to make the 7900/GRE/XT/XTX recognize up to 48GB for DIY VRAM modding. If AMD ever truly figures out a CUDA alternative in all but PRs, and/or support cross attention, modded 7900s could be great value for budget LLM/SD.

Random_UserAnd the biggest difference and the price hike was due to the drivers and SW itself.

RadeonProVegaIs it really necessary to sell Workstation GPU's for that much money anymore or in General?

HBSoundcreated a water block for any of the AMD Pro 6 or 7u series.

windwhirlThis isn't for consumers. Consumer logic goes out of the window.

Vya DomusI don't know why you expected someone would, most of these pro cards never get water blocks made for them, it's just not something the type of consumer who buys these wants.

windwhirlThinking about it, don't all these get paired with blower type fans? Which I guess make more sense considering where they're shoved into

Neo_MorpheusNormally, they go on server rooms, which are kept at very cool temps and those servers have ridiculously high speed loud fans, so the blowers works as expected.