AMD shows off its latest line of GPUs tailored for professionals. The AMD Radeon Pro W7000s are based on the RDNA 3 architecture and are said to be both powerful and efficient.

AMD shows the Radeon Pro W7000 series. The manufacturer presents the AMD Radeon Pro W7900 and the AMD Radeon Pro W7800 in this family. According to AMD, these are suitable for extreme workloads or heavy calculations. Both GPUs are built on top of the RDNA 3 architecture with a flexible chiplet design. The chiplets are baked with a mix of 5 nm for the compute components and 6 nm for the memory cache.

RNA 3

The RDNA 3 architecture would be much more efficient than RDNA 2, partly because resources are better shared between compute units for rendering, AI, and ray tracing. AMD expects around 50 percent more ray tracing capacity compared to the previous generation. AMD already launched RDNA 3 for its consumer cards at the end of last year.

These professional chips are based on the same chips as the Radeon RX 7000 series, but AMD has optimized them for professional use. The specifications make them suitable for key professional software such as the Adobe suite, Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya, SolidWorks Visualize, DaVinci Resolve and more. In addition, they have transcoding capabilities for the onboard encoded AV1.

specifications

Two models are currently appearing, with the AMD Radeon pro W7900 being the most powerful. AMD puts 96 Compute Units into this card and equips it with 48 GB of GDDR6 ECC memory with a speed of 18 GB/s. The memory bandwidth is 864 GB/s over a 384-bit interface. The card has a TDP of 295 watts.

The Radeon Pro W7800 is a little less well equipped, but remains a powerhouse with 70 compute units and 32 GB of GDDR6 ECC memory. You get 576 GB/s of memory bandwidth over a 256-bit interface. With a TDP of 260 watts, the card is a bit more economical.

AMD provides three DisplayPort 2.1 connectors and one Mini DisplayPort 2.1 connector for both cards. The chip designer points out that the included AMD Radiance Display Engine ensures that high resolutions and deep color profiles are correctly supported.

price and availability

All of these features are not free. AMD has a suggested retail price of $3,999 for the AMD Radeon Pro W7900. The Radeon Pro W7800 costs $2,499. AMD expects the cards to go on sale in the second quarter of this year. Systems from OEMs with the W7000 chips on board will have to wait until the second half of 2023.