AMD today announced the Radeon PRO W7600 and W7500 graphics cards for the professional-visualization (pro-vis) market segment. These cards are aimed at the middle class of the pro-vis segment, so both profits are positioned below the Pro W7900 and Pro 7800, which were released in April. AMD is also pricing the new cards rather aggressively than Nvidia.Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500 specifications
Both the W7500 and W7600 are based on 6nm “Navi 33” silicon and the same RDNA3 architecture we’ve seen from the consumer-grade RX 7000 series. The Radeon PRO W7600 takes full advantage of the silicon on which it is based and features 32 RDNA3 compute units or 2,048 stream processors; 64 AI Accelerators, 32 Beam Accelerators; 128 TMUs and 64 ROPs are obtained. The card comes with 8GB of 18Gbps GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit wide memory bus. The PRO W7600 comes with a single 6-pin PCIe power connector with a typical TDP of 130W. AMD claims 20 TFLOPs of FP32 performance for this card.
On the side, the Radeon PRO W7500 sees a slightly more cropped graphics processor and we get 1,792 stream processors, 56 AI accelerators, 28 Rail accelerators, 112 TMUs and 28 RDNA3 compute units creating 64 ROPs. The same 8GB of GDDR6 memory is offered on the same 128-bit memory bus, while memory speeds are slashed to 11 Gbps (the slowest for any GDDR6-based graphics card). AMD claims a peak performance of 12 TFLOPs, which is still higher than the 10 TFLOPs put forth by the previous generation W6600. While the old W6600 typically draws 130 W of power, the new W7500 can match its performance with just 70 W. There is no additional power connector on the card.
Both the W7500 and W7600 feature the latest AMD Radiance Display Engine with support for DisplayPort 2.1 with UHBR 10 (38.7 Gbps) supporting up to 10K 60Hz with DSC. The GPUs also feature hardware acceleration for HEVC as well as AV1 encoding and decoding.The most important advantage of Radeon PRO W7600 and W7500 over their Radeon RX counterparts in the customer segment is dozens of 3D CAD and visualization applications; Professional software stack optimization with industrial certification for dozens of digital photography and video editing applications and dozens of 3D content creation and animation applications is coming. With AI accelerator hardware components and ROCm 5.6 support, GPUs will also provide hardware support for a wide range of productive AI applications.
Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500 price
AMD is pricing the Radeon PRO W7600 at $599, and the company claims it outperforms the $646 Nvidia A2000 at this price. The Radeon PRO W7500, on the other hand, offers a SPECviewperf score that is almost twice the similarly priced Nvidia T1000, priced at $429. The cards are available as of today.
