While the majority of AMD’s Computex presentation was on CPUs and their Instinct lineup of devoted AI accelerators, the corporate additionally has a small product refresh for the skilled graphics and workstation AI crowd. AMD is releasing a dual-slot model of their high-end Radeon Pro W7900 card – aptly named the W7900 Dual Slot – with the intent being to enhance compute density in workstations by making it potential to put in four of the playing cards inside a single chassis.
The launch of a dual-slot model of the cardboard comes after the unique Radeon Pro W7900 was the primary time AMD went with a bigger, triple-slot type issue for his or her flagship workstation card. With the W7000 technology bringing an all-around improve in energy consumption, pushing the W7900 to 295 Watts, AMD initially opted to launch a bigger card for improved acoustics. However this got here at the price of compute density, as most techniques might solely match 2 of the thicker playing cards. As a consequence, AMD is opting to launch a dual-slot model of the {hardware} as nicely, to supply a extra aggressive product for high-density workstation techniques – notably these doing native AI inference.
| AMD Radeon Pro Specification Comparison | ||||||
| AMD Radeon Pro W7900DS | AMD Radeon Pro W7900 | AMD Radeon Pro W7800 | AMD Radeon Pro W6800 | |||
| ALUs | 12288 (96 CUs) |
8960 (70 CUs) |
3840 (60 CUs) |
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| ROPs | 192 | 128 | 96 | |||
| Boost Clock | 2.495GHz | 2.495GHz | 2.32HHz | |||
| Peak Throughput (FP32) | 61.three TFLOPS | 45.2 TFLOPS | 17.eight TFLOPS | |||
| Memory Clock | 18 Gbps GDDR6 | 18 Gbps GDDR6 | 16 Gbps GDDR6 | |||
| Memory Bus Width | 384-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | |||
| Memiry Bandwidth | 864GB/sec | 576GB/sec | 512GB/sec | |||
| VRAM | 48GB | 32GB | 32GB | |||
| ECC | Yes (DRAM) |
Yes (DRAM) |
Yes (DRAM) |
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| Infinity Cache | 96MB | 64MB | 128MB | |||
| Total Board Power | 295W | 260W | 250W | |||
| Manufacturing Process | GCD: TSMC 5nm MCD: TSMC 6nm |
GCD: TSMC 5nm MCD: TSMC 6nm |
TSMC 7nm | |||
| Architecture | RDNA3 | RDNA3 | RDNA2 | |||
| GPU | Navi 31 | Navi 31 | Navi 21 | |||
| Form Factor | Dual Slot Blower | Triple Slot Blower | Dual Slot Blower | Dual Slot Blower | ||
| Launch Date | 06/2024 | Q2’2023 | Q2’2023 | 06/2021 | ||
| Launch Price (MSRP) | $3499 | $3999 | $2499 | $2249 | ||
Other than the narrower cooler, the Radeon Pro W7900DS is for all intents and functions an identical to the unique W7900, with the identical Navi 31 GPU being pushed to the identical clockspeeds, and the general board being run to the identical 295 Total Board Power (TBP) restrict. This is paired with the identical 18Gbps GDDR6 as earlier than, giving the cardboard 48GB of VRAM.
Officially, AMD doesn’t have a noise specification for these playing cards. But you’ll be able to count on that the W7900DS might be louder than its triple-slot senior. By all appearances, AMD is simply utilizing the cooler from the W7800, which was a dual-slot card from the beginning, in order that cooler is being tasked with dealing with one other 35W of warmth dissipation.
As the W7800 was additionally AMD’s quickest dual-slot card up till now, it’s an apt level of comparability for compute density. With its full-fat Navi 31 GPU, the W7900DS will supply about 36% extra compute/pixel throughput than its sibling/predecessor. So it’s a not-insubstantial enchancment for the very particular area of interest AMD has in thoughts for the cardboard.
And like so many different issues being introduced at Computex this yr, that area of interest is AI. While AMD affords PCIe variations of their Instinct MI210 accelerators, these playing cards are geared at servers, with fully-passive coolers to match. So workstation-level compute is basically picked up by AMD’s Radeon Pro workstation playing cards, that are meant to enter a conventional PC chassis and use lively cooling…
