Inventory clearing is as much a part of business as breathing is part of life; as such, various retailers have apparently started to offer deep, deep discounts on AMD’s past technology in the form of their Radeon Pro Duo – the once and still king of the hill in the red camp, where performance and technology is concerned.
But as the “out with the old, in with the new” adage still stands, retailers are now clearing inventory of their Radeon Pro Duo graphics cards, sometimes offering almost 50% off from the original launch price of $1499. Newegg, for example, has the card for $799 on both their North American and Asia Pacific online stores.
While still built on the now old-news 28nm process, and in a dual-chip solution to boot, AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo remains a crowning achievement for the company, at least when it comes to the amount and novelty of incorporated technology; and while merits of dual-GPU solutions can certainly be debated, no one can deny the sheer power of this behemoth of a graphics card, which packs a grand total of 8192 stream processors delivering a staggering 16.38 TFLOPs of FP32 compute and two stacks of 4 GB of the highly-costly, and highly exotic, HBM 1 memory. If you want to get your hands on a brand new piece on this part of AMD’s particular history, resellers will tell you that now is the time.Source: WCCFTech
