AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU Brings 48 GB Memory To AI Workstations In A Compact Design, Priced at $3499

AMD is adding a new Radeon PRO W7900 GPU to its lineup which adopts a dual-slot design but retains the same specs as the previous model.

AMD first introduced its high-end RDNA 3-based Radeon PRO W7000 GPU family back in April of 2023 and it's been slightly over a year since then. As such, AMD has decided to update its Radeon PRO portfolio with a new offering that complies with the demands of the AI workstation segment & that is to make things compact.

This is why the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 launching today comes in a dual-slot offering versus the triple-slot offering which came with the prior variant. This new design allows workstation owners to incorporate up to 4 of these cards within their systems which wasn't previously possible with the older design. The card features a 280mm board length and uses a standard blower-style design.

The main highlights of this edition include:

In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card comes with the same Navi 31 GPU with 96 Compute Units and 6144 cores based on the RDNA 3 GPU architecture. It features up to 48 GB of GDDR6 memory and features a 384-bit wide memory interface that offers up to 864 GB/s of bandwidth. The card is rated to output 61.3 TFLOPs of FP32 & up to 123 TFLOPs of FP16 compute performance with its 192 AI accelerator cores at the same TDP of 295W.

AMD also shared some value aspects of the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot GPU which offers up to 2.01x better perf per dollar in workstation-oriented workloads against NVIDIA's Ada 6000 GPUs and up to 52% better pref/$ in SPECviewperf 4K Geomean. For AI, the W7900 packs a very large 48 GB memory buffer which makes it great to handle big LLMs and in Llama3 70B-Q4, the graphics card offered up to 38% better value than the Ada 6000 graphics card. It also provides data parallelism when running multiple GPUs since each GPU independently computes inference and outputs response.

But the interesting part is that the AI numbers ran above were done on ROCm 6.0 and AMD is going to introduce its latest ROCm 6.1.2 suite alongside the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot GPU on the 18th of June. This new update brings:

So that's great and the best part is that AMD's ROCm suite supports consumer (client) Radeon GPUs too. With that said, the Radeon PRO W7900 Dual-Slot seems like a great addition to the Radeon PRO stack which will come at a SEP of $3,499 US.