The competition between Nvidia and AMD is always close in the GPU market. Team Red has dealt a heavy blow to Nvidia with their latest offering of professional GPUs at a competitive price point.
AMD’s latest offering is the Pro W7900 model, based on the Navi 31 technology equipped with 48GB of GDDR6 ECC VRAM, which is quite capable of AI-driven applications. Its brother, the more affordable W7800, offers 32GB VRAM and a 256-bit bus architecture, hinting towards a possible Navi 32 chip.
Like their flagship RX 7900 XTX gaming GPUs, the Pro W7900 features 96 Compute Units with a 384-bit VRAM bus. Peak single precision FP32 is rated highly at 61TFLOPS, about 40% lower than Nvidia’s RTX 6000 Ada, which comes in heavy at 91TFLOPS.
Less performance won’t be surprising as the Pro W7900 comes in at about half the price at USD 3999. It is set to have a triple-slot blower design.
The Pro W7800 comes with 70 Compute Units and a 256-bit bus for those looking for an affordable alternative. With 32GB of GDDR6 ECC VRAM, it offers peak compute performance of 45TFLOPs at a 260W power cap. It comes with a dual-slot design.
The new architecture of 4480 Stream Processors and 256-bit bus hints towards a newer Navi 32 chip, as it has not been used in any Radeon RX 7000 card yet.
However, the price point isn’t only what makes the card attractive. The main advantage over the RTX Ada is the support for DisplayPort 2.1(80GBps), a powerful 8K60 AV1 encode/decode media engine, and lower TGP.
The W7900 will retail at USD 3999, and the W7800 will come at USD 2499. This will be significantly lower than Nvidia’s RTX 6000 Ada, initially starting at an MSRP of USD 6800.
As per AMD, the cards will be available in Quarter 2 of 2023. A definite date is yet to be announced, but this offering will spice up the workstation GPU segment once more and make Nvidia reconsider its pricing.
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