AMD has announced a dual GPU graphics card that is claimed to have double the performance of the ‘closest competing professional graphics card’. The card can drive four UltraHD monitors at 60Hz, and 8K displays at 30Hz using a single cable, or at 60Hz using dual cables. It can also support dual 5K monitors. The card is built around the Radeon Pro WX7200 and has 32GB of GDDDR5 memory to deal with big models, high definition video and complex assemblies. The device has 72 compute units (4608 stream processors) to provide 11.45 TFLOPs of compute performance. It draws up to 250W.
The card is said to be able to commit each GPU to different tasks, for example in the Nuke application. The flexibility of being able to divide GPUs between tasks is phenomenal and represents the ultimate in multitasking: compositing a complex shot while jumping into a 3D application to create assets, exporting back to Nuke to keep compositing then switching to Photoshop or Mari and paint a projection, to load it back into Nuke and continue”. said Kynan Stephenson, freelance artist.
The outputs from the card are three DisplayPort 1.4 ports with HBR3 and a single HDMI. It occupies a full height single slot.
The Radeon Pro Duo’s planned availability is the end of May at an expected SEP of $999.
AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo can run dual 5K displays or a single 8K display at 60Hz
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Separately, AMD ‘accidentally’ confirmed that Vega-based graphics cards would be released in Q2 in a Facebook post. The post was later deleted. (BR)
