AMD introduces its most powerful workstation graphics suite
Delivering up to 79 per cent faster performance than the previous generation, AMD’s Radeon PRO W6000 series workstation graphics series is built on the RDNA 2 architecture.
It has been designed and optimised to power demanding architectural design workloads, high resolution media projects, complex design and engineering simulations, and advanced image and video editing applications. The series includes
the AMD Radeon PRO W6800, the fastest AMD RDNA workstation graphics card ever, says AMD, and the Radeon PRO W6600 graphics card, engineered for high performance workflows, and the Radeon PRO W6600M graphics processing units (GPU), designed to power professional mobile workstations.
“Bringing this breakthrough architecture to our workstation graphics line up allows users to tackle much larger datasets, dramatically reduce render times, and speed processing of highly complex models and simulations,” said Scott Herkelman, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD.
The AMD RDNA 2 architecture is built on the advanced 7nm manufacturing process. The enhanced compute units with real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing offer up to 46 per cent faster rendering than Radeon PRO graphics cards based on previous-generation architectures in SolidWorks Visualize 20212. There is also support for variable rate shading (VRS) which delivers real-time photo-realistic viewports and rendering.
Another feature is the AMD Infinity Cache. This is up to 128Mbyte of last level data cache integrated on the GPU die. It is designed to reduce latency and power consumption, enabling the AMD Radeon PRO W6800 to deliver the highest RDNA workstation GPU performance to date, says AMD.
The Smart Access Memory unlocks higher performance for key professional workloads by giving AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors or select AMD Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors access to the entire high-speed GDDR6 graphics memory.
The AMD Radeon PRO Viewport Boost is compatible with professional software to help viewport frames-per-second performance increase with project file sizes.
The Radeon W6000 series workstation graphics suite consists of the Radeon PRP W6800, Radeon PRO W6600, Radeon PRO W6600M GPUs.
The AMD Radeon PRO W6800 graphics card is available now, the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 graphics card is expected to be available from Q3 2021 and the Radeon PRO W6600M GPUs are expected to be available in the HP Fury ZBook G8 mobile workstation in select countries from July 2021.
