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AMD unveils new Radeon Pro W7800 and W7900 graphics cards with RDNA 3 architecture and improved performance.

In the offer of professional graphics cards of the company AMD we have two news Radeony Pro W7800 a W7900. Both are built on the new RDNA 3 architecture, which should bring significantly higher performance. AMD, for example, talks about a 1.5-fold increase in performance for the W7900 model, and the memory capacity has also increased by half, which now amounts to 48 GB. There is also a 50% increase in ray-tracing, new AI instructions double the performance in AI tasks. Both novelties have a chiplet design with a 5nm GCD (Graphic Compute Die) and a 6nm MCD (Memory Cache Die). The cards can also boast of the DisplayPort 2.1 interface, which brings 3 times higher throughput and can thus handle output with 50 MPx on each of the ports (that’s 1.5 times more than 8K). There are three classic ports and one in the mini version. There is also an AV1 video encoding and decoding engine.

Model Radeon Pro W7800 it has 70 CU and achieves a performance of 45 TFLOPS (FP32). It uses 256-bit memory with a throughput of 576 GB/s. As for TBP consumption, it is 260 W. The price of this model was set at 2499 USD. Next, we have more powerful ones Radeon PRO W7900. We already get 96 CUs and a performance of 61 TFLOPS (FP32). This card has 384-bit memory and the throughput has increased to 864 GB/s. The consumption has also increased to 295 W. As for the price, it is 3999 USD.

AMD Radeon Pro W7900

As for the result in SPECviewperf, we see that the W7900 is not much slower than the high-end Nvidia RTX A6000 Ada (on Ada Lovelace architecture). However, it costs less than half its price, so a pair of such cards should still be a few hundred USD cheaper and offer more performance. In practice, however, we could probably expect a larger gap between one W7900 and one RTX 6000 (of course it will depend on the application). The W7900 has a gross performance of 61 TFLOPS, while the RTX 6000 Ada is half as powerful in this theoretical indicator and offers 91 TFLOPS. While raw performance may not reflect the actual general performance of the cards, it usually gives a good indication.

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