AMD Adds new Radeon Pro Duo with two Polaris 10 GPUs

Today, AMD announced the world’s first dual-GPU graphics card for professionals, the Radeon Pro Duo, designed to deliver outstanding performance and flexibility in today's most complex multi-tasking workflows.

Today AMD(NASDAQ: AMD) announced the world’s first dual-GPU graphics card designed for professionals: the Polaris-architecture-based Radeon™Pro Duo. Built on the capabilities of the Radeon™Pro WX 7100, the Radeon ProDuoprofessional graphics cardis designed to excel at media and entertainment, broadcast, and design and manufacturing workflows, delivering outstanding performance and superior flexibility that today’s creative professionals demand.

The Radeon Pro Duo is equipped with 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory to handle larger data sets, more intricate 3D models, higher resolution videos, and complex assemblies with ease. Operatingat a max power of 250W, the Radeon Pro Duo harnesses a total of 72 compute units (4608 stream processors) for a combined performance of up to 11.45 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance on one board, and twice the geometry throughput of the Radeon™ Pro WX 7100.2The Radeon Pro Duo enables professionals to work up to four 4K monitors at 60Hz, drive the latest 8K single monitor display at30Hz using a single cable, or drive an 8K display at 60Hz using a dual cable solution.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo (2017)
GPU architecture	GCN 4th Generation
Stream processors	2304 x2
Peak performance	11.45 TFLOPS
Peak triangles	9.94 BT/s
Peak engine clock	1243 MHz
Memory type	32 GB GDDR5 (16GB per GPU)
Memory interface	256 bit x2
Memory data rate / bandwidth	7 Gbps / 448 GB/s
Typical board power	250 watt
AMD FreeSync technology	Yes
AMD CrossFire Pro technology	Yes
Display output connectors	3x DP, 1x HDMI
DisplayPort version	1.4 – HBR3/HDR Ready
5K support @ 60 HZ	1x single-cable 5K monitor, or 2x dual-cable 5K monitors
8K support @ 30 HZ	1x single-cable 8K monitor
8K support @ 60 HZ	1x dual-cable 8K monitor
Display Color Depth	10-bit Support
Stereo 3D output (3-pin DIN)	No
Framelock/Genlock support	No
API support	DirectX 12 OpenGL 4.5  OpenCL 2.0  Vulkan 1.0
Operating System support	Windows 7 64-bit Windows 10 64-bit  Linux 64-bit
Form factor	12” Length Full-Height Dual Slot

 
“Today’s professional workflows continue to increase in complexity, often demanding that creators switch between a wide variety of applications to progress their work, pausing efforts in one application while computing resources are focused on another. We designed the Radeon Pro Duo to eliminate those constraints, empowering professionals to multi-task without compromise, dedicating GPU resources where and how they need them. It’s a continuation of our promise for Radeon Pro: to providegreater choice in howprofessionals practice their craft, enablingsuperior multi-tasking, accelerated applications, and powerful solutions for advanced workloadslike VR,” said Ogi Brkic, general manager, professional graphics, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD.

The Radeon Pro Duo’s distinct dual-GPU design gives professionals the flexibility to divide and conquer their workloads,enabling smoothmulti-tasking betweenapplications by committing GPU resources to each. Professionals can maintain their creative momentum andget more done faster, allowing for a greater number of design iterations in the same time.“I was very impressed with the power of the Radeon Pro Duo, particularly in Nuke. 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. The Radeon Pro Duo handles the general and varied tasks without missing a beat with excellent 3D performance. For the kind of projects I undertake as a generalist, the Radeon Pro Duois a no-brainer. It does it all,” said Kynan Stephenson, freelance artist.

The Radeon Pro Duo’s planned availability is the end of May at an expected SEP of US$999. And so to be clear, this is a two GPU solution aka RX 480 (x2). Each GPU with a boost to 1243 MHz has 16GB 7 Gbps of graphics memory.