Radeon graphics cards used chiplet design to tackle extreme workloads
Radeon PRO W7000 graphics cards are the first to be built on ADM’s chiplet design and the first to offer DisplayPort 2.1, providing three times the maximum total data rate compared to DisplayPort 1.41, said AMD.
They are AMD’s most powerful workstation graphics cards to date and increase the speed of geomean performance by a factor of 1.5 compared to the previous generation, confirmed the company. They also have 1.5 times more memory.
The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 and AMD Radeon PRO W7800 graphics cards are built on AMD RDNA 3 architecture, delivering significantly higher performance than the previous generation, to enable users to create and work with high-polygon count models seamlessly.
The new compute units share resources between rendering, AI and ray tracing to make the most effective use of each transistor, offering approximately 50 per cent more ray tracing performance per compute unit than the previous generation, said AMD. RDNA 3 architecture also features optimisations for rendering, video editing and multitasking.
The Radeon PRO W7000 cards are also claimed to deliver image fidelity and colour accuracy and run graphics and compute-based applications concurrently without disruption to workflows.
New AI instructions and increased AI throughput deliver over two time more performance than the previous AMD RDNA 2 architecture, while second-generation ray tracing technology delivers significantly higher performance than the previous generation, AMD said.
AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series graphics cards feature the world’s first workstation GPU architecture based on AMD’s advanced chiplet design, providing real-world multi-tasking performance and power efficiency. It includes the new 5nm graphics compute die (GCD) that provides the core GPU functionality, together with six new 6nm memory cache die (MCD), each with second-generation AMD Infinity Cache technology.
The Radeon PRO W7000 are also the first professional workstation GPUs to offer the new AMD Radiance Display Engine featuring DisplayPort 2.1 that delivers a superior visual experience, higher resolutions and more available colours than ever before.
The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 graphics card, designed for extreme workloads, features 61 TFLOPS (FP32) peak single precision performance, offering 1.5 time higher geomean performance on the SPECviewperf 2020 benchmark. It also includes 48Gbyte of GDDR6 memory, which is 1.5 times larger memory capacity than the 32Gbyte available on the previous-generation graphics card. For heavy workloads, the AMD Radeon PRO W7800 graphics card features 45 TFLOPS (FP32) peak single precision performance and 32Gbyte of GDDR6 memory.
