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AMD announces new Radeon Pro Duo with two Polaris 10 GPUs

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Today AMD announced the world’s first dual-GPU graphics card designed for professionals: the Polaris-architecture-based Radeon™ Pro Duo. Built on the capabilities of the Radeon™ Pro WX 7100, the Radeon Pro Duo professional graphics card is designed to excel at media and entertainment, broadcast, and design and manufacturing workflows, delivering outstanding performance and superior flexibility that today’s creative professionals demand.

The Radeon Pro Duo is equipped with 32GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory to handle larger data sets, more intricate 3D models, higher resolution videos, and complex assemblies with ease. Operating at a max power of 250W, the Radeon Pro Duo harnesses a total of 72 compute units (4608 stream processors) for a combined performance of up to 11.45 TFLOPS of single-precision compute performance on one board, and twice the geometry throughput of the Radeon™ Pro WX 7100.2 The Radeon Pro Duo enables professionals to work up to four 4K monitors at 60Hz, drive the latest 8K single monitor display at 30Hz using a single cable, or drive an 8K display at 60Hz using a dual cable solution...

...The Radeon Pro Duo’s planned availability is the end of May at an expected SEP of US$999.

Full article here: https://videocardz.com/press-release/amd-announces-new-radeon-pro-duo-with-two-polaris-10-gpus
 
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One can get CrossFire 480s for under £400 right now...

Then again, this is apparently a "professional" card. So it must have something that the regular 480s don't. Like a hecktonne of VRAM or something. Hey, that's one of Nvidia's excuses for the Titan cards costing more.
 
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One can get CrossFire 480s for under £400 right now...

Then again, this is apparently a "professional" card. So it must have something that the regular 480s don't. Like a hecktonne of VRAM or something. Hey, that's one of Nvidia's excuses for the Titan cards costing more.

With pro cards you pay for the software support not the hardware.
 
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One can get CrossFire 480s for under £400 right now...

Then again, this is apparently a "professional" card. So it must have something that the regular 480s don't. Like a hecktonne of VRAM or something. Hey, that's one of Nvidia's excuses for the Titan cards costing more.

It has 32Gb, right? So with a copied framebuffer the GPUs see 16Gb, which is a hefty amount for $1000. Question is whether it hints at AMD returning properly to dual-gpu boards for the gaming segment (as you say, I can't imagine any gamers buying this over CF 480s, assuming they wanted Polaris in the first place).
 
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This undercuts the quadro's by quite a lot. Hopefully they have good openCL support to back this up.

Specualtion time: (Forgive me if this has been discussed this before)
Now I watched an interesting video, that speculated AMD where heading towards multi gpu set ups rather than single large gpus (video below).

Quick overview: Going for smaller GPUs is easier to manufacture and is cheaper because you can get more gpus per wafer. One of the reasons titans are so expensive is because the gpu die is so big

Both videos are worth watching in my opinion but the key part is from around 19 mins in part 2. He talks about putting dual gpus in the next generation of consoles and is speculating that Navi (the generation after vega) is going to be about multi gpu setups, so either on the same die or multiple cards. 3 or so months later the ps4 pro is announced having dual gpus.

I wonder if this professional card is AMD setting up the professional market for content creation on dual gpu systems. If we assume that Navi is out in 2019 and that games have a roughly 2-3 year creation cycle. Then potentially studios could be buying these cards in preparation for games getting released then.
 
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