AMD is adding yet another product to its lineup with the Radeon PRO W7900 GPU, slotting in with an impressive amount of specifications, but in a dual-slot design. AMD unveiled the RDNA 3-based Radeon PRO W7000 GPU family entry back in April 2022. Over a year later, the company has decided to breathe new life into its Radeon PRO portfolio to address the needs of the AI workstation segment with a more lightweight solution.
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AMD Radeon PRO W7900 on the other hand has been designed with a new dual-slot form factor compared to the earlier triple-slot design. The new design now permits all workstation owners to install 4 of these cards throughout their systems, a feat not possible with the older design. The card boasts a 280mm board length and utilizes a standard blower-style design.
In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card retains the same Navi 31 GPU with 96 Compute Units and 6144 cores based on the RDNA 3 GPU architecture. It offers up to 48GB of GDDR6 memory and features a 384-bit wide memory interface providing up to 864 GB/s of bandwidth. The card is rated to deliver 61.3 TFLOPs of FP32 and up to 123 TFLOPs of FP16 compute performance with its 192 AI accelerator cores at a TDP of 295W.
Some value aspects of the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU were also shared by AMD, in workstation-oriented workloads, it offers up to 2.01x better performance per dollar compared to NVIDIA‘s Ada 6000 GPUs, and up to 52% better performance per dollar in SPECviewperf 4K Geomean. The large 48GB LLM memory buffer of the W7900 makes it even more competitive with the handling of large LLMs for AI tasks, where it provides up to 38% better value than the previous generation Ada 6000 graphics card in the Llama3 70B-Q4 benchmarks. It also provides data parallelism while doing inference so when using multiple GPUs, each GPU will operate independently to compute inference and produce the results.
Notably, AMD will introduce its latest ROCm 6.1.2 suite alongside the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot GPU on June 18th, offering additional AI frameworks such as TensorFlow and beta support for WSL-2 on Windows. This update enables scalable AI desktops with multi-GPU support for multi-serving solutions. The Radeon PRO W7900 Dual-Slot GPU is priced at a SEP of $3,499 US, presenting a compelling addition to the Radeon PRO lineup.
