AMD Introduces Radeon Pro VII Graphics Card and Radeon Pro Software Updates

AMD announced the Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card, basically the Radeon VII for consumers with a single blower style cooler, for the business Radeon Pro series. A few minor adjustments have been made, such as official PCIe 4.0 support, display outputs and a different cooler and color.

Radeon Pro VII professional graphics card is based on AMD's "Vega 20" multi-chip module that incorporates a 7 nm (TSMC N7) GPU die, paired with a 4096-bit wide HBM2 memory interface, and four memory stacks for 16 GB of graphics memory. The GPU die has 3,840 stream processors across 60 compute units, 240 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. AMD hands out a tdp of 250 watts - 50 watts lower than the consumer version for the Radeon Pro VII. On the Radeon VII Pro, the clock speeds are lower, which would make it perform up to 13.1 teraflops, compared to 13.8 for the regular Radeon VII.

Radeon Pro VII
The Radeon Pro VII graphics card delivers exceptional graphics and computational performance, as well as innovative features, to power today’s most demanding broadcast and media projects, complex computer aided engineering (CAE) simulations and the development of high-performance computing (HPC) applications that enable scientific discovery on AMD-powered supercomputers.

Key capabilities and features of the AMD Radeon Pro VII graphics card include:

• Leading Double Precision Performance – With up to 6.5 TFLOPS (FP64) of double precision performance for demanding engineering and scientific workloads, the Radeon Pro VII graphics card provides 5.6x the performance-per-dollar1 versus the competition on the AMD Internal Benchmark for Altair® EDEM “Screw Auger” viewset.
• High-speed Memory – 16GB of HBM2 with 1TB/s memory bandwidth and full ECC capability handles large and complex models and datasets smoothly with low latency.
• AMD Infinity Fabric Link – A high-bandwidth, low-latency connection that allows memory sharing between two AMD Radeon Pro VII GPUs, enabling users to increase project workload size and scale, develop more complex designs and run larger simulations to drive scientific discovery. AMD Infinity Fabric Link delivers up to 5.25x PCIe® 3.0 x16 bandwidth with a communication speed of up to 168 GB/s peer-to-peer between GPUs.
• Remote Working – Users can access their physical workstation from virtually anywhere for unhindered productivity with the remote workstation IP built into AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver4.
• High-bandwidth PCIe 4.0 Support – PCIe 4.0 delivers double the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 to enable smooth performance for 8K, multichannel image interaction.
• Frame Lock/Genlock – Enables precise synchronized output for display walls, digital signage and other visual displays (AMD FirePro™ S400 synchronization module required).
• High-resolution/Multi-display Support – Supports up to 6x synchronized display panels, full HDR and 8K screen resolution (single display) combined with ultra-fast encode and decode support for enhanced multi-stream workflows.
• Professional Application Certification – Optimized and certified with leading professional applications for stability and reliability. 
• ROCm™ Open Ecosystem – Open software platform for accelerated compute provides an easy GPU programming model with support for OpenMP, HIP, and OpenCL™, as well as support for leading machine learning and HPC frameworks, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kokkos, and RAJA.

The Radeon  Pro VII graphics card offers up to 6.5 TFLOPS of double precision performance for demanding engineering and scientific workloads. 16GB of HBM2 with 1TB/s memory bandwidth and full ECC capability powers large and complex models and datasets smoothly with low latency. The GPU also comes equipped with AMD Infinity Fabric Link – a high-bandwidth, low-latency connection that speeds application data throughput by enabling high-speed GPU-to-GPU communications in multi-GPU system configurations – as well as high-bandwidth PCIe 4.0 support.

AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2
The latest Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver offers up to 14 percent year-over-year performance improvements for current-generation AMD Radeon Pro graphics cards. The new software driver is now available for download from AMD.com.