AMD Radeon Pro Duo (Dual Fiji GPUs) Announced + Initial Perf Numbers

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/15/2016 07:30 PM | source: | 82 comment(s)

Read it well, an announcement, don't expect any reviews. We do have some photo's and some perf numbers though. The Dual Fiji GPU based AMD Radeon Pro Duo has been announced. Imagine two Fury X cards and well, there you go!

The design is more or less the same albeit it has a longer PCB with the two GPUs tied towards a thick 120mm liquid cooling solution. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo is announced alongside the GDC Liquid VR announcements. The product will offer 16 teraflops of performance, indicating two fully enabled Fiji XT GPUs. If you look at the photos you're going to notice three 8-pin power connectors and thus could use up-to 525 Watt. We do expect some refined tuning in power consumtion though, say 2x 200 Watt. The card's display output configuration four DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo dual-GPU Fiji was developed under code-name Gemini would have 8 GB HBM1 graphics memory with a whopping 8192 stream processors. The earlier photos however indicated two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors, this now is three. The specs below are not final yet based up-on assumptions (they should be pretty conclusive though). The AMD Radeon Pro Duo is planned for availability in early Q2 2016 at an anticipated SEP of $1499 USD.


	Radeon Pro Duo	Radeon R9 Fury X	Radeon R9 Nano	Radeon R9 390X
Fabrication Process	28nm	28nm	28nm	28nm
GPU	Fiji XT x2	Fiji XT	Fiji XT	Hawaii / Grenada
Streaming Processors	2x 4096	4096	4096	2816
Graphics memory	2x 4 GB HBM	4 GB HBM	4 GB HBM	8 GB GDDR5
Memory Clock	up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps	up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps	up-to 500 MHz / 1.0 Gbps	6.0 Gbps
Core Clock	1050 MHz	1050 MHz	up-to 1000 MHz	1050 MHz
Memory Bandwidth	up-to 512 GB/s	up-to 512 GB/s	up-to 512 GB/s	384 GB/s
Power Connectors	3 x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin	1 x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin - 1 x 8-pin
Form Factor	Full Height, Dual slot	Full Height, Dual slot	Full Height, Dual slot	Full Height, Dual slot
Freesync	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DirectX 12 Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

One Radeon Fury X pushes close to 8.6 TFLOPS of performance, the dual-GPU version offers over 16 TFLOPs of single precision performance. And yes a dual-GPU Fiji would have 8 GB HBM1 graphics memory with 8192 stream processors.

Some quick numbers (testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of March 7, 2016). The AMD Radeon Pro Duo, AMD Radeon R9 295X2 and Nvidia’s Titan Z, all dual GPU cards, on a test system comprising Intel i7 5960X CPU, 16GB memory, Nvidia driver 361.91, AMD driver 15.301 and Windows 10 using 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark test to simulate GPU performance.

PC Manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. At 1080p, 1440p, and 2160P, AMD Radeon R9 295X2 scored 16717, 9250, and 5121, respectively; Titan Z scored 14945, 7740, and 4099, respectively; and AMD Radeon Pro Duo scored 20150, 11466, and 6211, respectively, outperforming both AMD Radeon R9 295X2 and Titan Z.

Let me clearly stipulate that the Titan Z is still kepler based as there is no dual-GPU Maxwell based product released.

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AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today introduced the world's most powerful platform for virtual reality (VR) , capable of both creating and consuming VR content. AMD's Radeon™ Pro Duo with its LiquidVR SDK is a platform aimed at most all aspects of VR content creation: from entertainment to education, journalism, medicine and cinema. With an astonishing 16 teraflops of compute performance, AMD offers a complete degree solution aimed at all aspects of the VR developer lifestyle: developing content more rapidly for tomorrow's killer VR experiences while at work, and playing the latest DirectX 12 experiences at maximum fidelity while off work.

AMD continues to solve major problems developers face by reducing latency and accelerating the VR pipeline through close collaboration with the content development community and with AMD LiquidVR technology. AMD's next step in advancing VR is with the new AMD Radeon Pro Duo, an incredibly advanced and powerful dual-GPU board that delivers the horsepower needed by VR designers, content creators, and for VR content consumers.
"More powerful computing platforms are rapidly leading to greater immersive experiences, said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. "This is most evident with VR which demands ever higher compute performance with rock solid consistency. Our new AMD Radeon Pro Duo with our LiquidVR SDK is the world's fastest platform for both content creation and consumption1, enabling a world class graphics and VR experience."

AMD Radeon Pro Duo is the initial product of the AMD VR Ready Creator line. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo with the LiquidVR SDK is also the platform of choice for Crytek's VR First initiative for nurturing new talent in the field of virtual reality development by powering virtual reality labs in colleges and universities worldwide.

"As a state of the art platform, the AMD Radeon Pro Duo with the LiquidVR SDK is the perfect choice as the graphics standard for Crytek's VR First initiative," said Cevat Yerli, CEO, Crytek. "As a graphics card that bridges the needs of both VR content creators and content consumers, it's extremely fitting hardware to supply to the brightest up-and-coming developers, who will surely shape the future of virtual reality and immersive computing."

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jura11
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#5245276 Posted on: 03/15/2016 04:33 AM

logic being i dont wana a space heater for hw or something sucking up more wattage then the cpu, and yes it does wattage is directly tied to how hot the card is gona get and last i check when AMD was releasing card that normal temp where like 90c+ they got castrated for it.

And what your point about the car? people buy those cars then dont use them let them sit in garage witch is same as throw money out the window.

As I said there,this card never been intended to be for us gamers,those cards are intended to be used in VR studios and for VR content creators,which means those cards are something like half way between the normal Radeon and FirePro

Been owner previously Sapphire AMD R9 290 and 280X,both has been pretty much very quiet and quieter than my Titan X which I've right now,Titan X from 45% is very audible and from 60% is just simply loud,temps are still not bad,but still in 80's

Regarding the wattage,have look on Titan Z there

Hope this helps

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#5245277 Posted on: 03/15/2016 04:45 AM

As I said there,this card never been intended to be for us gamers,those cards are intended to be used in VR studios and for VR content creators,which means those cards are something like half way between the normal Radeon and FirePro

Been owner previously Sapphire AMD R9 290 and 280X,both has been pretty much very quiet and quieter than my Titan X which I've right now,Titan X from 45% is very audible and from 60% is just simply loud,temps are still not bad,but still in 80's

Regarding the wattage,have look on Titan Z there

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

Why would VR creators need this? VR targets should be 90fps for midrange hardware, not $1500 devices. This is clearly a prosumer card similar to the Titan and it's even being marketed as that according to Ryan Smith at Anandtech.

It's a good card for compute purposes although I don't know why any gamer would pay the small premium on this device with Polaris ~3 months away.

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#5245287 Posted on: 03/15/2016 05:27 AM

yes it does wattage is directly tied to how hot the card is gona get

wattage (in regards to power) is not directly tied to how hot a component will get. Never has been, never will be.

TDP has nothing to do with how much power a product will consumer or how hot it will get.

The Skylake i7 6700K has a 91W TDP or 310.5 BTU/hr TDP. That's the amount of heat that has to be dissipated (represented in watts) to maintain a safe operating temperature, not the amount of power it draws. The Core i7 6700K actually draws around 116watts according to Hilbert's review.

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#5245293 Posted on: 03/15/2016 05:43 AM

Why would VR creators need this? VR targets should be 90fps for midrange hardware, not $1500 devices. This is clearly a prosumer card similar to the Titan and it's even being marketed as that according to Ryan Smith at Anandtech.

It's a good card for compute purposes although I don't know why any gamer would pay the small premium on this device with Polaris ~3 months away.

Hi there

Polaris will be here this year,but I just don't think will be with HBM 2,if will come,will come with GDDR5X or HBM 1 as per their Roadmap,Vega and Navi should be equipped with HBM 2

Right now not sure if Polaris still will be on 14nm,but who knows,maybe they surprise me too

Hard to say why they target VR and I wouldn't say Titan has been targeted towards prosumers there,but that's my view,VRAM should suggest that,but performance nah,its slightly faster in Octane than 980Ti and in IRAY its very close between them,I've owned like 980Ti(EVGA) and now have Titan X(EVGA too)

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

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#5245313 Posted on: 03/15/2016 07:23 AM

Lol, Amd was smart to launch these now. At least they can get away with a couple of sales till Nvidia destroys them with the upcoming Titan-like Pascal

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