Gigabyte Launches AMD Radeon PRO W7000 Series Graphics Cards

[TheLostSwede]

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of premium gaming hardware, today launched the cutting-edge AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series workstation graphics cards, including the flagship GIGABYTE Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G as well as the GIGABYTE Radeon PRO W7800 AI TOP 32G. Powered by AMD RDNA 3 architecture, these graphics cards offer a massive 48 GB and 32 GB of GDDR6 memory, respectively, delivering cutting-edge performance and exceptional experiences for workstation professionals, creators and AI developers.⁠⁠

GIGABYTE stands as the AMD professional graphics partner in the market, with a proven ability to design and manufacture the entire Radeon PRO series. Our dedication to quality products, unwavering business commitment, and comprehensive customer service empower us to deliver professional-grade GPU solutions, expanding user's choices in workstation and AI computing.




Crafted with premium-grade components, the new GIGABYTE professional graphics cards deliver incredible stability and endurance. With up to 48 GB of GDDR6 memory per card, users can achieve a memory capacity of up to 192 GB in a system with four cards installed. Additionally, ECC memory error correction technology ensures accurate and reliable computing results, providing a significant advantage for professional workstation computing and large AI model workloads.

From industrial product design to automotive and aerospace, the new graphics cards unleash the power of exceptional performance and speed to streamline design and manufacturing workflows. They enable professional users to tackle demanding, large-scale photorealistic architectural, engineering, and construction projects in real-time while multitasking with ease.

Featuring support for DisplayPort 2.1 technology and powered by the AMD Radiance Display Engine, the new workstation graphics cards deliver stunning visuals with up to 68 billion colors at up to 8K 165 Hz, delivering exceptional color accuracy and clarity and full coverage of the REC2020 color space.

Designed for unwavering stability for extended operation, the new workstation graphics cards undergo GIGABYTE's rigorous high-quality verification and specialized AI computing scenario simulation testing, empowering the graphics cards to excel in both professional workstation and AI applications.

To further enhance work efficiency, GIGABYTE Technology introduces the AI TOP UTILITY exclusive application. Its data-visualized intuitive interface allows users to easily grasp LLM optimization progress and hardware status, and quickly adjust relevant fine-tuning settings, significantly simplifying operation procedures and efficiently driving AI workloads.

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[HBSound]

Generally, 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.

 

[Cheeseball]

Available on Amazon US. (No referral crap from me)

 

[LabRat 891]

Available on Amazon US. (No referral crap from me)

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

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

 

[Cheeseball]

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

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

Yup, the equivalent (although not equivalent in performance) RTX 4090 "Quadro" is the RTX 6000 Ada, which goes for $8,000.00 $6,800 (retail) if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: Got the price from NVIDIA themselves.

EDIT 2: That Amazon US price for the W7900 Dual-Slot is actually on sale -$500.00 because the MSRP is:

 

[R-T-B]

Yep, 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...

 

[Firedrops]

The 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.

 

[Patriot]

The 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.

They 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.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Generally, 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.

Good point.

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

 

[Patriot]

Good point.

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

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

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

They 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.

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

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

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

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

 

[Patriot]

Also 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.

Looks like we are both wrong. Pc partner (zotac) though sapphire does contract them to manufacture their cards as well.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

You are Right and at the same time wrong.

But now we know for sure.

Per this reddit post:

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."

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/image...0b9784fdd430f983902e7a895d2a7430e5dc0382d.jpg

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

https://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.

https://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.

https://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.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/nwqjzk

 

[Wirko]

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

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

That was before the largest corporation summoned their lawyers. Zluda's future (and present) is now unclear, but it isn't completely dead.

ZLUDA Has Been Seeing New Activity For CUDA On AMD GPUs - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[HBSound]

I wanted to try the last generation of this card, but no one, I mean no one, created a water block for any of the AMD Pro 6 or 7u series.

 

[Random_User]

Yep, 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...

It was always like this. Since the very inception of Enterprise HW, and GPUs. And the biggest difference and the price hike was due to the drivers and SW itself.

You are Right and at the same time wrong.

But now we know for sure.

Per this reddit post:



https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/nwqjzk

This seems correct:

"1997 The PC Partner Group was founded in Hong Kong
1998 Awarded ISO 9001 accreditation
Engaged by ATI (now AMD) as contract manufacturer..."

"...2006 Started distributing its own ZOTAC brand video graphics cards
Started manufacturing video graphics cards based on NVIDIA GPUs."

Source

 

[kapone32]

The 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.

I mean the memory is waiting for the module on my 7900XT. We even have Youtubers to do it for us if these files you reference are created.

 

[Patriot]

7900xtx's are already great for budget LLM... having a hive of mi100s... the 70B models are truly not that impressive over the 7B condensed models.
And now that you can run 4x 7900xtx's together...

 

[R-T-B]

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

Ironic considering the pro drivers now fun fine on any high tier Radeon since the 5700XT.

 

[RadeonProVega]

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

 

[windwhirl]

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

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

 

[Vya Domus]

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

I 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.

 

[RadeonProVega]

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

lol. true.

 

[windwhirl]

I 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.

Thinking 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_Morpheus]

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

Normally, 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.