AMD has announced their latest Radeon Pro Duo graphics card which is based on dual Polaris 10 GPUs. The new graphics card features twice the performance of the Radeon Pro WX7100 and is aimed at the prosumer, content creation market.

AMD Unveils Brand New Radeon Pro Duo Graphics Card - Out Comes Fiji, In Goes Dual Polaris 10 Cores

The AMD Radeon Pro Duo shouldn't be mistaken with last years Radeon Pro Duo. There's a big difference between the two as one featured dual Fiji GPUs while the latest variant comes with dual Polaris 10 GPUs. The graphics card is a fast rendering solution that is designed to excel at various tasks such as broadcast, entertainment, media, design and manufacturing workloads. The card is solely aimed at the professional consumer market where likes of content creators and power users can take full advantage of the new Pro Duo graphics card.

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo (Dual Polaris 10) Specifications:

As far as specifications are concerned for the new Polaris 10 based Radeon Pro Duo, it can be seen as a downgrade in terms of raw power but there are multiple workloads that can take advantage of all AMD made optimizations to their Radeon Pro stack for Polaris. There's also a higher video memory buffer that will allow for faster image processing and high texture resolutions to be used in rendering.

The Radeon Pro Duo utilizes two full Polaris 10 cores with 2304 stream processors. This means we are looking at a total of 72 compute units that equal 4608 stream processors. The card operates at a clock speed of 1243 MHz on both GPUs. The card features total compute power of 11.45 TFLOPs which is lower than 16 TFLOPs on the original Pro Duo. The card packs twice the geometry throughput of the Radeon Pro WX7100 and can operate with up to four 4K monitors at 60 Hz and a single 8K display at 30 Hz (single cable mode) or single 8K display at 60 Hz (dual cable model).

In terms of VRAM, the card is a huge upgrade over the 8 GB HBM2 featured on the Radeon Pro Duo with Fiji GPUs. The new card packs 32 GB of fast GDDR5 and AMD is probably using 7 GHz chips which pumps out 448 GB/s bandwidth. The card is powered by a 8+6 Pin power configuration that confirms a wattage of 250W.

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 10 Specifications

Graphics Card Name Radeon Pro WX 7100 Radeon Pro Duo 2016 Radeon Pro Duo 2017 GPU Architecture Polaris 10 Fiji XT Polaris 10 GPU Process 14nm 28nm 14nm Compute Units 36 CUs 128 CUs 72 CUs Stream Processors 2304 SPs 8192 SPs 4608 SPs Clock Speed 1243 MHz 1000 MHz 1243 MHz Compute Performance (FP32) 5.7 TFLOPs 16.38 TFLOPs 11.45 TFLOPs VRAM 8 GB GDDR5 8 GB HBM2 32 GB GDDR5 Memory Bus 256-bit 4096-bit 256-bit x2 Memory Bandwidth 224 GB/s 1 TB/s 448 GB/s TDP 130W 300W+ Price $799 US $1500 US $999 US Market Segment Professional / Content Creator Gaming / Professional Professional / Content Creator

“Today’s professional workflows continue to increase in complexity, often demanding that creators switch between a wide variety of applications to progress their work, pausing efforts in one application while computing resources are focused on another. We designed the Radeon Pro Duo to eliminate those constraints, empowering professionals to multi-task without compromise, dedicating GPU resources where and how they need them. It’s a continuation of our promise for Radeon Pro: to provide greater choice in how professionals practice their craft, enabling superior multi-tasking, accelerated applications, and powerful solutions for advanced workloads like VR,” said Ogi Brkic, general manager, professional graphics, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Dual Polaris 10 Graphics Card Features:

Divide

The Radeon Pro Duo’s distinct dual-GPU design gives professionals the flexibility to divide and conquer their workloads, enabling smooth multi-tasking between applications by committing GPU resources to each. Professionals can maintain their creative momentum and get more done faster, allowing for a greater number of design iterations in the same time.

“I was very impressed with the power of the Radeon Pro Duo, particularly in Nuke. The flexibility of being able to divide GPUs between tasks is phenomenal and represents the ultimate in multitasking: compositing a complex shot while jumping into a 3D application to create assets, exporting back to Nuke to keep compositing then switching to Photoshop or Mari and paint a projection, to load it back into Nuke and continue. The Radeon Pro Duo handles the general and varied tasks without missing a beat with excellent 3D performance. For the kind of projects I undertake as a generalist, the Radeon Pro Duo is a no-brainer. It does it all,” said Kynan Stephenson, freelance artist.

Along with the launch of the Radeon Pro Duo at NAB 2017, AMD is showing off a wide range of innovations for media and entertainment professionals:

Professional color correction using BlackMagic Resolve powered by the new Radeon Pro Duo

Incredible real-time 360 video stitching and real-time VR preview using Radeon Loom and the HTC Vive, and powered by the new Radeon Pro Duo

Accelerated rendering performance in Blender using Radeon ProRender and “Out of Core” technology to access system memory for increased frame buffer capacity powered by the Radeon Pro Duo

VR content creation using Radeon Pro Duo

Real-time rendering at 4K resolution in Radeon ProRender powered by AMD’s next-generation Radeon Pro SSG

8K video post-processing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017 enabled by AMD’s next-generation Radeon Pro SSG

Stunning VR experiences from Rewind and The Foundry’s Nuke running on Radeon Pro WX 7100

Accelerate

The Radeon Pro Duo dramatically increases performance in today’s most popular professional applications through support of multiple GPUs or plug-ins, speeding through tasks. On select professional applications, the Radeon Pro Duo delivers up to 2 times faster performance compared with the Radeon Pro WX 7100 and up to 2 times faster performance than the closest competing professional graphics card.

Create

The Radeon Pro Duo’s potent combination of performance and dual-GPU flexibility makes it the ideal solution for today’s advanced workloads, including professional VR content creation. VR represents a significant inflection point for the media and entertainment industry and is becoming more commonplace in today’s studios. Radeon Pro Duo professional graphics card leverages the power of two GPUs to render out separate images for each eye, increasing VR performance over single GPU solutions by up to 50% in the SteamVR test.4AMD’s LiquidVR technologies are also supported by the industry’s leading real-time engines, including Unity and Unreal, to help ensure smooth, comfortable, and responsive VR experiences on Radeon Pro Duo.

“In developing 4K 360 VR content, the biggest hurdle is the tech, because as an artist, I just want to create and not worry about limitations of the hardware. Faced with raw, un-optimized content, VR creators need a lot more horsepower than VR consumers. With the new Radeon Pro Duo, I have performance in spades. I immediately saw a speed difference of up to 2X, allowing me to push the boundaries of my projects without having to compromise on creativity or productivity,” said Jonathan Winbush, Founder & Creative Director, Winbush.tv.

The Radeon Pro Duo is designed to meet the stringent requirements of workstation form factors, comes with 24/7 support, and is bolstered by professional-grade software certified across leading applications for media, entertainment, CAD and engineering. Radeon Pro Software offers users unprecedented driver stability, quality and reliability, with quarterly updates for features, performance and stability.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Packs All That For Just $999 US

While the announcement comes today at the NAB Show 2017, the card is expected to hit retail in end of May. The surprising thing is that just like the Radeon Pro WX series, the card will be targeting the market at a very aggressive price point. AMD has confirmed that the card will hit retail for just $999 US which is lower than the Fiji based Radeon Pro Duo's price of $1500 US.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Professional Graphics Card With Dual Polaris 10 Performance Metrics:

Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of March 25th, 2017 on a test system comprising of dual Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 @ 3.00 GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo(Polaris)/Nvidia Titan X, AMD graphics driver 17.10, Nvidia graphics driver 378.92 and Samsung 850 PRO 512G SSD. Benchmark Application: Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. Nvidia Titan X 37 effects render time: 19 minutes 08 seconds. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) 37 effects render time: 8 minutes 46 seconds. Performance Differential: 1148/526 = ~2.18 times faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. Results are estimates only. RPW-111

Benchmark Application: Blender 2.78c. Nvidia Titan X (Pascal) Koro scene render time: 5 minutes 56 seconds. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) Koro scene render time: 3 minutes and 8 seconds. Performance Differential: (356-188)/188 = ~89.36% faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. Results are estimates only. RPW-101

2. The Radeon™ Pro WX 7100 delivers 5.727744 billion triangles per second while the Radeon Pro Duo delivers 11.455488 billion triangles per second.

3. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of March 25th, 2017 on a test system comprising of dual Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 @ 3.00 GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ Pro WX7100/AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo(Polaris), graphics driver 17.10 and Samsung 850 PRO 512G SSD.

Benchmark Application: Autodesk Maya - Radeon ProRender plugin. Radeon™ Pro WX7100 Dragon scene 8xAA render time: 275 seconds. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) Dragon scene 8xAA render time: 129 seconds. Performance Differential: 275/129 = ~2.13 times faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPW-106

Benchmark Application: Blender 2.78c. Radeon™ Pro WX7100 Koro scene render time: 6 minutes 17 seconds. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) Koro scene render time: 3 minutes and 8 seconds. Performance Differential: 377/188 = ~2 times faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPW-107

Benchmark Application: LuxMark v3.1 - Hotel Lobby Scene. Radeon™ Pro WX7100 score: 2676. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) score: 6086. Performance Differential: 6086/2676 = ~2.27 times faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPW-105

Benchmark Application: V-Ray standalone denoising tool using all system OpenCL devices, including CPUs and GPUs, with strong mode for 4K animation frames. System with Radeon™ Pro WX7100 denoising time per frame: 11.01 seconds. System with Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) denoising time per frame: 5.89 seconds. Performance Differential: 11.01/5.89 = ~86.93 % faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPW-112

4. Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of March 25th, 2017 on a test system comprising of dual Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 @ 3.00 GHz, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ Pro WX7100/AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo(Polaris), graphics driver 17.10 and Samsung 850 PRO 512G SSD. Benchmark Application: SteamVR performance test. Radeon™ Pro WX7100 score: 6.1. Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris) score: 9.1. Performance Differential: (9.1-6.1)/6.1 = ~50% faster performance on Radeon™ Pro Duo (Polaris). PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary based on use of latest drivers. RPW-94