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Radeon Pro
Radeon Pro is AMD's brand of professional oriented GPUs. It replaced AMD's FirePro brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand for mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Pro brand is intended for use in workstations and the running of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC), high-performance computing/GPGPU applications, and the creation and running of virtual reality programs and games.
The Radeon Pro product line directly competes with Nvidia, i.e. their Quadro (since discontinued) line of professional workstation cards.
The first card to be released under the Radeon Pro name was the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016. The card features 2 liquid cooled R9 Nano cores & was marketed strongly for both the running and creation of virtual reality content with the slogan "For Gamers Who Create and Creators Who Game". The aesthetics and marketing of the Pro Duo follow that of the rest of the Fury products in the 300 series.
In April 2017 AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo for release the following month. The newer version of the Pro Duo utilizes dual GPUs from the Polaris architecture, using the same GPUs as in the WX7100. While this results a smaller number of compute units and lower theoretical performance, it allows for the inclusion of 32 GB GDDR5 SDRAM and a lower board power.
Using AMD Radeon's GCN 3 architecture, the Radeon Pro SSG was unveiled in July 2016. SSG stands for Solid State Graphics, and the card will couple AMD's Fiji core with solid-state storage to increase the frame buffer for rendering. This expansion of quick access storage will, therefore, relieve the issue of latency that occurs when a GPU has to retrieve information from a mass storage device via the CPU when a card's limited VRAM is maxed out in heavy workloads. Users will be able to add up to 1 TB of PCIe M.2 NAND flash memory to improve render and scrubbing times. AMD demonstrated a 5.3 fold increase in performance on 8K video scrubbing. This SSD storage space can be made available to the operating system or controlled entirely by the GPU. The Fiji-based Radeon Pro SSG card was available as a beta program.
In July 2017, AMD released the Vega-based Radeon Pro SSG. The card utilizes 16 GB of second generation ECC high bandwidth memory (HBM2), an upgrade from the Fiji-based card's 4 GB of first generation HBM memory. The Vega card also increased the built in solid-state storage to 2 TB.
AMD announced in May 2017 the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, for release in June of that year. While not branded as a Pro product, the card is marketed within the Radeon Pro series. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition uses the new "Next-Gen Compute Unit" and 16 GB of HBM2 memory for an expected 13.1 TFLOPs of single precision and 26.2 TFLOPs of half precision performance. Ultimately, two Frontier Edition products were released with either air or liquid cooling. The liquid cooling part supported a higher TDP, and was able to reach and sustain higher clock speeds, but otherwise the two products have similar hardware specifications.
The Pro V series was announced in August 2018 with the Vega-based Radeon Pro V340, a dual-GPU flagship card for use in datacenter virtualization, supporting up to 32 virtual machines at a time, as well as several other potential uses for Computer-aided design, general rendering tasks, and Desktop as a Service. It was expected to be available in Q4 of that year.
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Radeon Pro
Radeon Pro is AMD's brand of professional oriented GPUs. It replaced AMD's FirePro brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand for mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Pro brand is intended for use in workstations and the running of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC), high-performance computing/GPGPU applications, and the creation and running of virtual reality programs and games.
The Radeon Pro product line directly competes with Nvidia, i.e. their Quadro (since discontinued) line of professional workstation cards.
The first card to be released under the Radeon Pro name was the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016. The card features 2 liquid cooled R9 Nano cores & was marketed strongly for both the running and creation of virtual reality content with the slogan "For Gamers Who Create and Creators Who Game". The aesthetics and marketing of the Pro Duo follow that of the rest of the Fury products in the 300 series.
In April 2017 AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo for release the following month. The newer version of the Pro Duo utilizes dual GPUs from the Polaris architecture, using the same GPUs as in the WX7100. While this results a smaller number of compute units and lower theoretical performance, it allows for the inclusion of 32 GB GDDR5 SDRAM and a lower board power.
Using AMD Radeon's GCN 3 architecture, the Radeon Pro SSG was unveiled in July 2016. SSG stands for Solid State Graphics, and the card will couple AMD's Fiji core with solid-state storage to increase the frame buffer for rendering. This expansion of quick access storage will, therefore, relieve the issue of latency that occurs when a GPU has to retrieve information from a mass storage device via the CPU when a card's limited VRAM is maxed out in heavy workloads. Users will be able to add up to 1 TB of PCIe M.2 NAND flash memory to improve render and scrubbing times. AMD demonstrated a 5.3 fold increase in performance on 8K video scrubbing. This SSD storage space can be made available to the operating system or controlled entirely by the GPU. The Fiji-based Radeon Pro SSG card was available as a beta program.
In July 2017, AMD released the Vega-based Radeon Pro SSG. The card utilizes 16 GB of second generation ECC high bandwidth memory (HBM2), an upgrade from the Fiji-based card's 4 GB of first generation HBM memory. The Vega card also increased the built in solid-state storage to 2 TB.
AMD announced in May 2017 the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, for release in June of that year. While not branded as a Pro product, the card is marketed within the Radeon Pro series. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition uses the new "Next-Gen Compute Unit" and 16 GB of HBM2 memory for an expected 13.1 TFLOPs of single precision and 26.2 TFLOPs of half precision performance. Ultimately, two Frontier Edition products were released with either air or liquid cooling. The liquid cooling part supported a higher TDP, and was able to reach and sustain higher clock speeds, but otherwise the two products have similar hardware specifications.
The Pro V series was announced in August 2018 with the Vega-based Radeon Pro V340, a dual-GPU flagship card for use in datacenter virtualization, supporting up to 32 virtual machines at a time, as well as several other potential uses for Computer-aided design, general rendering tasks, and Desktop as a Service. It was expected to be available in Q4 of that year.