AMD Announces Radeon Pro W6600X GPU for Mac Pro

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AMD today announced availability of the new AMD Radeon PRO W6600X GPU for Mac Pro, developed to help professional users push the limits of what is possible. Built on the award-winning AMD RDNA 2 architecture, AMD Infinity Cache and other advanced technologies, the new GPU delivers stunning visuals and exceptional performance to power a variety of today's popular professional applications and workloads.

AMD Radeon PRO W6000X Series GPUs provide several graphics options for Mac Pro, which is engineered for extreme performance, expandability and configurability. The new AMD Radeon PRO W6600X GPU delivers an outstanding combination of image quality and exceptional performance, helping enable Mac Pro users to achieve amazing levels of productivity and creativity. Users can also select from several other powerful AMD GPUs to power an extensive range of professional workloads, including the previously announced AMD Radeon PRO W6900X, AMD Radeon PRO W6800X and AMD Radeon PRO W6800X Duo GPUs.





"The AMD Radeon PRO W6600X GPU completes the AMD Radeon PRO W6000X product family, providing a mid-range solution with great performance for graphics-rich content creation," said Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD. "AMD is proud to offer Mac Pro users a comprehensive portfolio of powerful graphics solutions with amazing performance to meet all their creative design and content creation needs."

Key AMD Radeon PRO W6600X GPU features include:

• Award-Winning AMD RDNA 2 Architecture - AMD RDNA 2 architecture offers an array of advanced features elevating professional graphics to new levels of performance, efficiency and visual fidelity.
• High-speed GDDR6 memory - Up to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with up to 256 GB/s bandwidth provides ultra-fast transfer speeds to power data-intensive professional applications.
• AMD Infinity Cache - 32 MB of last-level data cache integrated on the GPU die is designed to reduce latency and power consumption to enable higher performance than traditional architectural designs.
• Visual Excellence - With 8K processing and HDR support, the AMD Radeon PRO W6600X GPU enables new levels of creativity by enhancing video compositing and editing for professional workflows.

Specifications

• Model: AMD Radeon PRO W6600X
• Compute Units: 32
• Stream Processors: 2048
• Memory Interface: 128-bit
• TFLOPS: 9.8 Peak Single Precision (FP32), 19.6 Peak Half Precision (FP16)
• Infinity Cache: 32 MB
• Memory: 8 GB GDDR6
• Peak Memory Bandwidth: 256 GB/s

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[Fouquin]

This is an attempt to offer an RDNA2 upgrade path to the huge (read: a few dozen) quantities of the rackmount Pros who are still on the W5700X. Really kinda too little, too late. But some long-term use scenarios that aren't fit for W6800/W6900X upgrades for whatever reason will find a use for this.

 

[mama]

I know I sound dumb but how does this work? Is this a discrete GPU for current Mac Pro owners to slot into their rigs or is this something to do with the new Apple product releases?

 

[Fouquin]

I know I sound dumb but how does this work? Is this a discrete GPU for current Mac Pro owners to slot into their rigs or is this something to do with the new Apple product releases?

Yep, it's a somewhat late follow up to the W6800/6900X releases from last year. Not really related to any of the new products, just another rung on the ladder of configuration options for the Mac Pro.

 

[Jism]

This is an attempt to offer an RDNA2 upgrade path to the huge (read: a few dozen) quantities of the rackmount Pros who are still on the W5700X. Really kinda too little, too late. But some long-term use scenarios that aren't fit for W6800/W6900X upgrades for whatever reason will find a use for this.

No matter what, also in Apple there's huge margains to be made.