AMD Adds new Radeon Pro Duo with two Polaris 10 GPUs

Published 2017-04-24 15:28 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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#5423894

Loophole35

2017-04-24 15:30

595x2 incoming.

#5423901

BLEH!

2017-04-24 15:49

Effectively a RX580 X2...

#5423916

RedSquirrel

2017-04-24 16:16

is blue :O

#5423926

nz3777

2017-04-24 16:44

Whats-up with the color they trying to be more intel like?

#5423927

JonasBeckman

2017-04-24 16:45

is blue :O

Workstation card rather than geared towards gaming, going by the info and as already mentioned in the above comments it seems to be something like a 480X2 or 495 or whatever it could have been called, taking two Polaris 10 GPU's and 16 GB of VRAM (x2) and sticking them together. I guess that's one use of the older 480 Polaris 10 cores remaining. 😀 (Now that the 580 is out and using some tweaked variation of said core.) EDIT: http://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-pro-wx-4100-and-wx-5100-workstation-gpu-reviews http://hothardware.com/ContentImages/Article/2556/content/small_radeon-pro-wx7100-1.jpg

#5423928

Stormyandcold

2017-04-24 16:47

16GB x2 memory! Interesting product aimed at professional use. They seem to have taken a leaf from Nvidia here and kept the same name as the previous dual-gpu card. Would've been nice to see a cheaper consumer version.

#5423935

AlmondMan

2017-04-24 17:04

But, they already have the Radeon Pro Duo 8gb - so how is this world first? 😛

#5423937

isidore

2017-04-24 17:05

really...were the f*ck is the radeon pro duo for gamers?

#5423939

wantobe

2017-04-24 17:15

:chainsaw2: Please gimme my promised Vega

#5424012

Aura89

2017-04-24 20:46

Aside from the amount of memory, why would anyone chose this card? And isn't it effective 16gb of memory? or is that not how it works in crossfire/dual cards work anymore? I understand its for workstations, but i can't really see how this would be better for a workstation then a GTX 1080 ti for $300 less

#5424019

Denial

2017-04-24 20:59

Aside from the amount of memory, why would anyone chose this card? And isn't it effective 16gb of memory? or is that not how it works in crossfire/dual cards work anymore? I understand its for workstations, but i can't really see how this would be better for a workstation then a GTX 1080 ti for $300 less

If you're using it for compute applications you get the full range of memory. The reason why this doesn't occur in graphics is because you're loading the same assets onto both cards because they effectively working on the same task. In compute they operate entirely independent of one another. (Obviously both cases depend on the workload, whether DX12 pooling is used - but in general this is the case) Size of the memory pool is important in some workloads so it could make this card a more effective purchase than the Ti depending on what you're doing with it.

#5424029

Aura89

2017-04-24 21:15

If you're using it for compute applications you get the full range of memory. The reason why this doesn't occur in graphics is because you're loading the same assets onto both cards because they effectively working on the same task. In compute they operate entirely independent of one another. (Obviously both cases depend on the workload, whether DX12 pooling is used - but in general this is the case) Size of the memory pool is important in some workloads so it could make this card a more effective purchase than the Ti depending on what you're doing with it.

Then that makes a lot more sense for the $300 extra, lol.

#5424048