AMD announces Radeon Pro VII featuring 16GB HBM2 memory and Infinity Fabric Link

Today AMD launches Radeon Pro VII.

AMD Radeon PRO VII for professionals

The new Radeon Pro features 16 GB of HBM2 memory, which is the same capacity as NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, although the bandwidth is much higher (1 TB/s). Unlike the Radeon RX (Radeon VII) model, the Pro variant does not have an HDMI display output. Instead, AMD opted for six mini-DisplayPort connectors which are 8K capable.

AMD Radeon Pro VII is a PCIe Gen 4.0 graphics card, which is not surprising considering all Navi-based Pro models are compatible with the new interface. However, this is an advantage over the Turing-based Quadro RTX series, which are only PCIe Gen 3 capable. It is also worth mentioning that Radeon VII (from RX series) is only PCIe Gen 3.0.

The card has a typical board power of 250W, which is slightly less than RTX 5000 (260W). It requires a single 8-pin and a single 6-pin power connector. This configuration is another difference compared to the RX model, as the card was spec’ed at 295W TBP with dual 8-pin.

AMD is also bringing back a new multi-GPU bridge for the Radeon Pro VII. The bridge is called ‘Infinity Fabric Link’ and it has a bandwidth up to 168 GB/s. AMD is comparing its Infinity Fabric Link with NVIDIA NVLINK which can offer a maximum bidirectional bandwidth of 100 GB/s (for RTX 5000 it is 50 GB/s).

Update:

AMD confirmed that Radeon Pro VII features Vega 20 GPU with 3840 Stream Processors. The maximum double-precision compute performance is twice as high as Radeon VII (RX Series). The card will retail at 1,899 USD.

AMD Radeon Pro vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX
VideoCardz.com	Radeon Pro VII	Radeon VII	Radeon Pro W5700	Radeon Pro W5500	Quarto RTX 6000	Quadro RTX 5000
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GPU	7nm VEGA 20	7nm VEGA 20	7nm NAVI 10 GXL	7nm NAVI 14 PRO XL	12nm TURING TU102	12nm TURING TU104
Cores	3840	3840	2304	1408	4608	3072
TMUs	240	240	144	88	288	192
ROPs	64	64	64	32	96	64
RT Cores	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	72	48
Tensor Cores	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	576	384
FP32 Perf.	13.1 TFLOPS	13.4 TFLOPS	8.7 TFLOPS	5.4 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	11.2 TFLOPS
FP64 Perf.	6.5 TFLOPS	3.5 TFLOPS	0.6 TFLOPS	0.3 TFLOPS	0.5 TFLOPS	0.3 TFLOPS
Peak GPU Clock	1705MHz	1750 MHz	1930 MHz	1900 MHz	1770 MHz	1815 MHz
Memory Config.	16 GB HBM2	16 GB HBM2	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6
Memory Bandwidth	1 TB/s	1 TB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	624 GB/s	448 GB/s
Board Power	250W	295W	205W	125W	295W	250W
PCIe	Gen 4	Gen 3	Gen 4	Gen 4	Gen 3	Gen 3
LINK (bi-dir)	IFL 168 GB/s	N/A	N/A	N/A	NVL 100 GB/s	NVL 50 GB/s

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