AMD Radeon Pro Duo Specs, Features: Extremely Fast Dual-GPU Graphics Card Officially Launched For $999
AMD has launched the new graphics card to handle rigorous workloads, and the company is billing it as the world's first dual-GPU aimed towards the professional market. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo features dual Polaris GPUs and as per the AMD, it makes a perfect fit for "media and entertainment, broadcast, and design and manufacturing workflows".
The new AMD Radeon Pro Duo is based on the fourth-generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The latest card can perform graphic and arithmetic instructions in parallel.
According to Toms Hardware, the benefit of the dual-GPU AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics card is that designers can now use two software packages at the same time. Professionals can take advantage of the parallel computing power of the AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics card to accelerate compute-intensive tasks in computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing, and other applications which support OpenCL.
AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics card will make it possible to dedicate one GPU to the functions of separate applications simultaneously or to work with multiple 4K video streams in real-time and support the multi-GPU acceleration. As claimed by AMD, live content creation using the first GPU, with real-time rendering and/or ray tracing on the second GPU, is now possible.
The full-height single-slot AMD Radeon Pro Duo features two Polaris 10 cores both operating at 1,243MHz with 2,304 stream processors each. Total compute power is 11.45 TFLOPs. The 32GB of GDDR5 (16GB per core) operates at 7GHz for a total of 448GBps bandwidth. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo can drive four 4K displays at 60Hz or one 5K or 8K display at 60Hz via the three DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3/HDR Ready outputs and one HDMI 2.0 output.
The AMD Radeon Pro Duo was launched at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB 2017) show in Las Vegas. The latest extremely fast dual-GPU graphics card is priced at $999 and will be available starting the end of May, as per Hot Hardware.
AMD Radeon Pro Duo will give severe competition to other high-end GPUs like the NVIDIA Titan XP and Pascal-based Quadro professional graphics cards. It should also be noted that new AMD Radeon Pro Duo is not related to the consumer-centric Radeon Pro Duo which was launched last year.