AMD Radeon Pro Duo Preview

W1zzard · Apr 25, 2016

Close to the market launch of AMD's Radeon Pro Duo, the $1499 Fiji-based dual-GPU graphics card, we walk you through the card's design, AMD's performance claims, and what to realistically expect from the card.

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Dippyskoodlez · Apr 25, 2016

PLX chip? Disappointing. Was hoping they'd snipe Nvidia in their nvlink roadmap, but now they just have a 4gb paperweight :/

dj-electric · Apr 25, 2016

Well... they need to get rid of those GPUs asap, so putting 2 on 1 card and charging thrice might work for them

GhostRyder · Apr 25, 2016

Well, dual GPU cards have lost some of their lust over the years especially because of the pricing. I am grateful to see the design of the cooling and AIO on this gets everything instead of leaving a tiny copper pipe or random fan take care of it. Also just as clean on the shroud as the Fury X.

Sadly though a little late to the game, too expensive, and I would prefer some higher starting clocks like the 295X2. Its unfortunate because this seems like a nicely designed card.

mouacyk · Apr 25, 2016

Anyone know if these are using the higher-binned Nano dies or the higher-leakage Fury X dies?

HD64G · Apr 25, 2016

mouacyk said:
Anyone know if these are using the higher-binned Nano dies or the higher-leakage Fury X dies?

Judging by the 350W typical draw from 2 Fiji cores, it has to be 2 X Nano-cores me thinks.

the54thvoid · Apr 25, 2016

Was going to launch into a WTF is this?

Free PR for AMD in a preview?

Then I read the conclusion and chuckled. Another bizarre launch from AMD. A real shame because it would be good to see a spread of benchmarks for it.

What I find a little weak from AMD's own press is that it's only 1.5x faster than Titan X and 1.3x faster than 295X2.
Think I'd rather overclock a 295X2 under water and save £1000.

qubit · Apr 25, 2016

What a facepalmingly epically pointless card from AMD on the eve of the next generation of cards. They've really outdone themselves this time. :rolleyes:

This has to be the weirdest graphics card "review" I've ever seen on TPU, based on snippets from around the internet.

@W1zzard I wanna clarify that this is a dig at AMD not yourself for such an embarrassment. You'll never find NVIDIA doing this.

ShurikN · Apr 26, 2016

I looks to me this entire "preview" was made only to state how TPU is not getting a card to test. Besides, who needs a preview of a graphics card...

straim · Apr 26, 2016

ShurikN said:
I looks to me this entire "preview" was made only to state how TPU is not getting a card to test. Besides, who needs a preview of a graphics card...

I'm agree with you, I think that this preview is driven only for AMD not giving the card for review before the availability in stores. I think it is a bad move for AMD anyway coz they get this preview from TPU anyway and make ppl aware of the things wizzard says, it became a matter of opinion I guess.

GhostRyder · Apr 26, 2016

The only real thing I would care to see from a review would be noise, temps, and power limit. We all can guess where the performance of this lies. Problem is not sending out samples makes an already hard to swallow product even harder.

straim · Apr 26, 2016

GhostRyder said:
Problem is not sending out samples makes an already hard to swallow product even harder.

That is the truth, and what I'm saying is I don't understand why AMD does that! We don't need previews, we need reviews! I like AMD a lot (just look my current rig) but I like more the wzzard reviews, he is really good doing that. I have never seen a biases review from wizzard (dunno why ppl says that), but that leads to the Nano drama and now this happens with the Pro... I hope this gets solved by AMD at last.

Primalz · Apr 26, 2016

Well I'd love to see the performance of this beast in some of the AAA FPS games that are out such BF4 or Battlefront, Crysis 3 ect. games that support Crossfire & SLI. This thing would absolutely destroy BF4 @ 4k.

Jism · Apr 26, 2016

It's the followup for the 295X2. Who cares about 4GB of memory. I bet it's still not an issue at 4K resolutions. If programmers where able to use that memory different in both DX & Mantle, it will be a complete different league. Still an kickass graphics-card being the absolute fastest card on the planet.

Caring1 · Apr 26, 2016

I'd still have one if they were giving them away, but I'd have to figure out how to pay the power bill.

Tsukiyomi91 · Apr 26, 2016

asking price is the same as Titan Z.... really AMD? If I were to choose a high end dual-GPU card, it will be their R9 295X2 since it's the one card that kills most of the competition out of the water for under $700 across 1440p & up while being a little cheaper than the R9 Fury X.

THE_EGG · Apr 26, 2016

My inner OCD is left very satisfied with the packaging.

ZoneDymo · Apr 26, 2016

THE_EGG said:
My inner OCD is left very satisfied with the packaging.

what about your outer OCD?

Assimilator · Apr 26, 2016

Instead of a preview, laced with images from another website and complaints about the card being late and TPU not getting a sample... why not just a simple editorial as with the Fury launch?

Oh that's right... an editorial doesn't get as many clicks.

brian111 · Apr 26, 2016

AMD Isn’t Sampling Its Radeon Pro Duo To Reviewers – But It Has A Good Reason

http://techgage.com/news/amd-isnt-sampling-its-radeon-pro-duo-to-reviewers-but-it-has-a-good-reason/

Hiryougan · Apr 26, 2016

Tsukiyomi91 said:
asking price is the same as Titan Z.... really AMD? If I were to choose a high end dual-GPU card, it will be their R9 295X2 since it's the one card that kills most of the competition out of the water for under $700 across 1440p & up while being a little cheaper than the R9 Fury X.

Why are you surprised? 295X2 was 1500$ on release, Titan Z was 3000$(hic!). It's a given it would be priced at least as high as their previous card. It's just how dual gpus cards are.

Caring1 · Apr 26, 2016

brian111 said:
AMD Isn’t Sampling Its Radeon Pro Duo To Reviewers – But It Has A Good Reason

http://techgage.com/news/amd-isnt-sampling-its-radeon-pro-duo-to-reviewers-but-it-has-a-good-reason/

Yeah, so what is the reason? Nothing new in that article.

the54thvoid · Apr 26, 2016

GhostRyder said:
...Problem is not sending out samples makes an already hard to swallow product even harder.

Exactly why Nvidia didn't sample their Titan Z turd in a box.

Frick · Apr 26, 2016

Even if they're daft I'll always have a soft spot for dual GPU cards.

las · Apr 26, 2016

Why would anyone invest in a dual 28nm chip card now. This card should have been out long ago. But personally I'm done with multi GPU..

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