AMD launches Radeon Pro dual-GPU graphics card

This is going to do well in its market, pending on how well it is supported.
 
Sounds like two rx 480/580's in xfire. Can't see that beating Titan Xp performance or whatever nvidia bases their pro cards on. Apparently nvidia Volta is already to be found in supercomputers, think ibm has two them (spupercomputers) going live soon if not live already.
 
ponder said:
Sounds like two rx 480/580's in xfire. Can't see that beating Titan Xp performance or whatever nvidia bases their pro cards on. Apparently nvidia Volta is already to be found in supercomputers, think ibm has two them (spupercomputers) going live soon if not live already.
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What did the R9 295 X2 do to that generation Titan?
 
Genisys said:
What did the R9 295 X2 do to that generation Titan?
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The R9 295 X2 is still a legend to the day, 2x RX 480/580 not so much today, somewhere between gtx 1070 and 1080 performance.
 
ponder said:
The R9 295 X2 is still a legend to the day, 2x RX 480/580 not so much today, somewhere between gtx 1070 and 1080 performance.
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The graphics card features 4,608 stream processors, a clock speed of 1,243MHz, and up to 11.45TFLOPS of peak compute power.
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For AutoCAD, etc. it's probably trying to compete with the Titan Xp.
Based on the Pascal architecture, the TITAN Xp comes with 12GB of GDDR5X memory and 3,840 CUDA cores clocked at 1,582Mhz under its hood. It also boasts a whopping 12 teraflops of processing power, a full teraflop higher than the TITAN X.
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So for workplace at near the same peak performance, $1200 vs $999 AMD card. Should probably be better in the price/performance ratios.
I thought the AMD card would have a higher draw than 250W.

Benchmarks between the two cards should be interesting.
 
Genisys said:
What did the R9 295 X2 do to that generation Titan?
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The R9 290X (AMD's fastest single GPU card) was faster than the single GPU flagship Nvidia had out (GTX 780?) at the expense of being hotter and power-hungry. Putting 2 of them together into the R9 295 X2 created a beast of a card.

The RX cards are nowhere near Nvidia's 1080 let alone the 1080 Ti and Titan XP...who knows what the gap would be if dual chip Pascal comes out (if such a thing is even possible).
 
Johnatan56 said:
For AutoCAD, etc. it's probably trying to compete with the Titan Xp.


So for workplace at near the same peak performance, $1200 vs $999 AMD card. Should probably be better in the price/performance ratios.
I thought the AMD card would have a higher draw than 250W.

Benchmarks between the two cards should be interesting.
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Nah disagree and so does the market. The other thing that's interesting is that amd & nvidia terraflops don't seem to match up. If one looks at the 580 vs 1060 terraflop figures the 580 should kill the 1060 but it doesn't. The 580 is .3 terraflops from a 1070 yet it does not come close in performance.

If the AMD only draws 250W then something has to give somewhere seeing as a single 580 draws 180W odd watts, then again workstation cards are more about accurate floating point precision that raw fps.
 
ponder said:
Nah disagree and so does the market. The other thing that's interesting is that amd & nvidia terraflops don't seem to match up. If one looks at the 580 vs 1060 terraflop figures the 580 should kill the 1060 but it doesn't. The 580 is .3 terraflops from a 1070 yet it does not come close in performance.

If the AMD only draws 250W then something has to give somewhere seeing as a single 580 draws 180W odd watts, then again workstation cards are more about accurate floating point precision that raw fps.
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What do you think it's competing with? Anandtech says content creation, though then it's the Quadro cards (though I have seen a lot of people use 1080 Ti's instead).

Will be interesting as it's basically a double Radeon Pro WX 7100.
 
ponder said:
Nah disagree and so does the market. The other thing that's interesting is that amd & nvidia terraflops don't seem to match up. If one looks at the 580 vs 1060 terraflop figures the 580 should kill the 1060 but it doesn't. The 580 is .3 terraflops from a 1070 yet it does not come close in performance.

If the AMD only draws 250W then something has to give somewhere seeing as a single 580 draws 180W odd watts, then again workstation cards are more about accurate floating point precision that raw fps.
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Yeah, there is way more factors to performance than Flops, especially for workstation cards.
 
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