Though AMD doesn’t have any main HPC bulletins for this yr’s SC23 present, the corporate isn’t beginning this week empty-handed. For the workstation market the corporate is introducing its newest (and sure last) Radeon Professional W7000 sequence card, the Radeon Professional W7700.
Based mostly on AMD’s latest-generation RDNA 3 structure, the W7700 slots in between the Navi 31-based Radeon Professional W7800 and the Navi 33-based Radeon Professional W7600. As the ultimate member of the lineup, the Navi 32-based card is designed to separate the distinction between AMD’s high-end and low-end Radeon Professional playing cards, providing a extra modest stage of efficiency for a much more modest price ticket. Priced at $999, AMD is seeking to hit a candy spot when it comes to hitting the high-end workstation market, edging out dearer NVIDIA playing cards with a mix of upper efficiency and decrease pricing.
| AMD Radeon RX 7000 Collection Specification Comparability | ||||||
| AMD Radeon Professional W7800 | AMD Radeon Professional W7700 | AMD Radeon Professional W7600 | AMD Radeon Professional W5700 | |||
| ALUs | 8960 (70 CUs) |
6144 (48 CUs) |
4096 (32 CUs) |
2304 (36 CUs) |
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| ROPs | 128 | 96 | 64 | 64 | ||
| Enhance Clock | 2.5GHz | ~2.3GHz | 2.43GHz | 1.9GHz | ||
| Peak Throughput (FP32) | 45 TFLOPS | 28.3 TFLOPS | 19.9 TFLOPS | 8.89 TFLOPS | ||
| Reminiscence Clock | 18 Gbps GDDR6 | 18 Gbps GDDR6 | 18 Gbps GDDR6 | 14 Gbps GDDR6 | ||
| Reminiscence Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 128-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 32GB | 16GB | 8GB | 8GB | ||
| ECC | Sure (DRAM) |
Sure (DRAM) |
No | No | ||
| Infinity Cache | 64MB | 64MB | 32MB | N/A | ||
| Whole Board Energy | 260W | 190W | 130W | 205W | ||
| Manufacturing Course of | GCD: TSMC 5nm MCD: TSMC 6nm |
GCD: TSMC 5nm MCD: TSMC 6nm |
TSMC 6nm | TSMC 7nm | ||
| Structure | RDNA3 | RDNA3 | RDNA3 | RDNA (1) | ||
| GPU | Navi 31 | Navi 32 | Navi 33 | Navi 10 | ||
| Launch Date | Q2’2023 | 11/13/2023 | Q3’2023 | 11/2019 | ||
| Launch Worth (MSRP) | $2499 | $999 | $599 | $799 | ||
Below the hood, the Radeon Professional W7700 appears to be like rather a lot like a Radeon RX 7800XT that’s been dialed right down to make a lighter TDP. We’re taking a look at a Navi 32 GCD with simply 48 CUs enabled, and a extra modest peak clockspeed of round 2.3GHz. The whole rated throughput of the cardboard is 28.3 TFLOPS FP32, trailing the extra highly effective (and extra power-hungry) client playing cards a bit.
The Radeon Professional W7700 is paired with Navi 32’s full suite of Reminiscence Cache Dies (MCD) nonetheless, giving it a better-than-usual ratio of FLOPS to reminiscence bandwidth. With 16GB of GDDR6 hooked up to a 256-bit reminiscence bus, the cardboard affords 576GB/second of reminiscence bandwidth – and ECC-protected reminiscence, at that, a function carried over from the high-end Radeon Professional fashions.
As famous earlier, AMD is aiming a bit extra conservatively when it comes to energy consumption for this card, seeking to provide one thing between the toasty 250W+ flagship playing cards, and the extra petite 130W W7600. The top result’s that AMD has set the TBP for the W7700 at 190W, permitting for the development of an easily-cooled twin slot card.
By way of options, because the fifth RDNA 3 video card in AMD’s Radeon Professional lineup, the W700 is on par with its friends. Just like the flagship elements, we’re taking a look at a reasonably performant model of AMD’s RDNA 3 structure, with the corporate seeking to leverage varied optimizations and new options all through the cardboard to supply higher efficiency, and for particular duties, new options. The core structure features a important replace to the CUs to enhance the entire variety of compute FLOPS attainable, in addition to optimizations to enhance the form of dense matrix math utilized in AI inference calculations. As effectively, the ray tracing items have been up to date to offer higher efficiency and a bigger general ray fee.
RDNA 3’s marquee video function of AV1 encoding help additionally makes it over to the cardboard as effectively. The W7700 can encode a single AV1 stream at as much as 8K60, a really helpful function as AV1 adoption will increase – although it doesn’t get the extra highly effective twin media engine discovered on the flagship W7800/W7900’s playing cards.
In the meantime, AMD’s ace within the gap on the show output facet of issues is their help for DisplayPort 2.1 connectivity, one thing all of NVIDIA’s playing cards on this era lack. Nonetheless, Professional customers desiring to reap the benefits of DP 2.1 will need to pay shut consideration to the specs for AMD’s Radeon Professional lineup, as help shouldn’t be constant all through the playing cards. Whereas the cheaper W7500/W7600 solely have UHBR 10 knowledge fee help, the W7700 will get sooner UHBR 13.5 help for increased decision/shade depth shows. Nonetheless, this can be a step down from the W7800/W7900, which may uniquely drive a max-bandwidth UHBR 20 show.
As for the bodily W7700 card itself, it’s a pretty typical-for-workstations twin slot blower design. AMD is utilizing their customary DisplayPort configuration right here, equipping the cardboard with a quartet of full-sized DisplayPorts. By way of size, the W7700 is a bit shorter than its W7800/W7900 counterparts, although AMD hasn’t despatched over the precise dimensions for the cardboard. And whereas not proven in any of AMD’s footage, the cardboard is fed extra energy a single 8-pin PCIe energy connector.
Wrapping issues up, the Radeon Professional W7700 is getting a tough launch, and might be accessible immediately in stand-alone card kind from the standard PC elements retailers at an MSRP of $999. In the meantime, OEMs are anticipated to start out delivery the cardboard of their workstations starting later this month.
