AMD Radeon Pro Duo Is Reportedly Slower Than Its Predecessor; Will Compete Against The NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan XP

AMD announced a latest version of the Radeon Pro Duo at the (NAB) National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas. This is the latest iteration of the dual-GPU card it launched around a year ago, and it is targeted towards professionals rather than gamers.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics packs two of the company's fastest GPUs, but surprisingly, it is slower than its 2016 predecessor. The Pro Duo is based on the Polaris architecture. It provides 11.45 teraflops of single-precision performance that is a demote from the 16 teraflops of performance offered by last year's Pro Duo, which was based on the Fiji architecture, as per CIO.

Performance usually goes up with each new GPU generation, but AMD has opted to lower the power draw and the number of processing cores in the Pro Duo; as a result, the product generates less heat. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo draws 250 watts of power, compared to 350 watts by its predecessor.

AMD is placing the new GPU as a faster version of its single-GPU Radeon Pro WX 7100. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo has two WX 7100 graphics chips, which makes it two times faster, as reported by PC World.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo allows graphics designers to work with 8K content. Latest card by AMD can also connect to the 8K display using two cables, which will double the refresh rate to 60Hz.

The new AMD Radeon Pro Duo is no pushover by any means, and it looks set to go up against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Xp that boasts a slightly higher 12 TFLOPs of computational power, as per Hardware Zone.

The price of the AMD Radeon Pro Duo is also $500 less than its predecessor. The new graphics card is slated to start at $999 and ship worldwide by the end of May. AMD has been trying to push more reasonably priced GPUs to consumers and professionals.