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AMD Radeon Pro
Design firmAdvanced Micro Devices
TypeProfessional workstations

Radeon Pro is AMD's brand of professional oriented GPUs. It replaced AMD's FirePro brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand for mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Pro brand is intended for use in workstations and the running of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC), high-performance computing/GPGPU applications, and the creation and running of virtual reality programs and games.[1]

The Radeon Pro product line directly competes with Nvidia's Quadro and Tesla lines of professional workstation cards.[2]

Products

Main articles: List of AMD workstation GPUs and List of AMD mobile workstation GPUs

Radeon Pro Duo

The first card to be released under the Radeon Pro name was the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016. The card features two liquid cooled Fury X cores and was marketed strongly for both the running and creation of virtual reality content with the slogan ″For Gamers Who Create and Creators Who Game".[3][4] The aesthetics and marketing of the Pro Duo follow that of the rest of the Fury products in the 300 series.

Radeon Pro SSG

Using AMD Radeon's new Polaris architecture, the Radeon Pro SSG was unveiled in July 2016. SSG stands for Solid State Graphics, and the card will couple AMD's Polaris core with Solid-state storage to increase the frame buffer for rendering. This expansion of quick access storage will, therefore, relieve the issue of latency that occurs when a GPU has to retrieve information from a mass storage device via the CPU when a card's limited VRAM is maxed out in heavy workloads.[5] Users will be able to add up to 1TB of PCIe M.2 NAND flash memory to improve render and scrubbing times.[6] AMD demonstrated a 5.3 fold increase in performance on 8K video scrubbing.[7] This SSD storage space can be made available to the operating system or controlled entirely by the GPU.[8] The card is current available as a beta program, with general availability expected in 2017.,[9][10]

Radeon Pro WX Series

The first Radeon Pro cards with the WX prefix to be announced were the WX 7100, the WX 5100 and the WX 4100 in July 2016.[2] These Polaris based cards are once again aimed at the traditional professional market and are set to replace the FirePro Wx100 series and FirePro Wx300 series. These cards, along with the Pro SSG, will use the new, non-toxic and energy efficient YInMn Blue, discovered by Mas Subramanian. This unique aesthetic for the Radeon Pro line will distinguish the professional products from the consumer Radeon series.[11]

The smallest card, the half-height WX 4100, is marketed for use in small form factor workstations.[12] Designed for real-time content engines and CAD and CAM manufacturing, the WX 5100 fits in between the WX 4100 and the WX 7100 in terms of performance, with the latter once again marketed with emphasis on the application of VR and other media creation, while claiming to be "The Most Affordable Workstation Solution".[1]

Radeon Pro (Mobile)

Mobile Radeon Pro parts were first revealed with the release of the 2016 update to the Apple 15" MacBook Pro.[13] These appear to be Polaris 11 derived parts with 10-16 4th generation GCN compute units, providing between 1 and 1.86 TFLOPS of performance.[14][15]

Software

Project Loom

At an AMD event in 2016, Project Loom was announced as a collaboration between AMD and Radiant Images.[16] The real-time GPU accelerated photo and video stitching program will complement AMD's virtual reality development platform. While traditional photo stitching is not that much of a complex task, Project Loom aims to improve render times when tasked with the heavy workload of stitching together multiple high resolution angles to form a 360 degree VR experience, either to headsets or mobile devices.[17] Using AMD's Direct GMA protocol, the software allows Radeon Pro graphics cards to work directly with video capture hardware to stitch together a 30 fps, 360 degree 4k resolution video from 24, 1080p cameras at 60 fps.[18]

The software is to be competitive with Nvidia's VRWorks 360 Video SDK, and is reportedly set to be made open-source through GPUOpen.[19]

ProRender

The successor to FireRender, Radeon ProRender works with high-end graphics programs as an OpenCL photorealistic offline 3D renderer and raytracing engine.[20] ProRender aims to compete with programs such as NVIDIA's iRay and other expensive, proprietary solutions. However, AMD is making ProRender free, open source and available for all graphics hardware.[17]

Chipset Table

Radeon Pro WX x100 Series

Model
(Code name) 		Release Date
& Price 		Architecture
& fab 		Transistors
& die size 		Core Fillrate[a][b][c] Processing power[a][d]
(GFLOPS) 		Memory TBP Bus interface Graphic output
ports
Config[e] Clock[a]
(MHz) 		Texture
(GT/s) 		Pixel
(GP/s) 		Half Single Double Size
(GB) 		Bandwidth
(GB/s) 		Bus type
& width 		Clock
(MT/s)
Radeon Pro WX 2100
(Polaris 12)[21][22][23] 		Jun 1, 2017
$149 USD 		GCN 4
GloFo 14 nm 		2.2×109
103 mm2 		512:32:16
8 CU 		925
1219 		29.6
39.0 		14.8
19.5 		947
1,250 		947
1,250 		59.2
78 		2 48 GDDR5
64-bit 		6000 35 W PCIe 3.0 ×8 1× DP 1.4a
2× miniDP 1.4a
Radeon Pro WX 3100
(Polaris 12)[21][24][25] 		Jun 1, 2017
$199 USD 		4 96 GDDR5
128-bit 		50 W
Radeon Pro WX 4100
(Polaris 11)[26][27][28][29] 		Nov 10, 2016
$399 USD 		3.0×109
123 mm2 		1024:64:16
16 CU 		1125
1201 		72
76.9 		18
19.2 		2,304
2,460 		2,304
2,460 		144
154 		96 7000 4× miniDP 1.4a
Radeon Pro WX 5100
(Polaris 10)[26][27][30][31] 		Nov 18, 2016
$499 USD 		5.7×109
232 mm2 		1792:112:32
28 CU 		713
1086 		79.85
121.6 		22.8
34.75 		2,555
3,892 		2,555
3,892 		159.7
243.3 		8 160 GDDR5
256-bit 		5000 75 W PCIe 3.0 ×16 4× DP 1.4a
Radeon Pro WX 7100
(Polaris 10)[26][32][27][33][34] 		Nov 10, 2016
$799 USD 		2304:144:32
36 CU 		1188
1243 		171
179 		38
39.78 		4,150
5,728 		5,474
5,728 		342.1
358 		224 7000 130 W
Radeon Pro WX 9100
(Vega 10)[35][36][37][38][39] 		Sep 13, 2017
$2,199 USD 		GCN 5
GloFo 14 nm 		12.5×109
495mm2 		4096:256:64
64 CU 		1200
1500 		307.2
384.0 		76.8
96.0 		19,660
24,576 		9,830
12,288 		614.4
768 		16 484 HBM2
2048-bit 		1890 230 W 6× miniDP 1.4a
  1. ^ a b c Boost values (if available) are stated below the base value in italic.
  2. ^ Texture fillrate is calculated as the number of Texture Mapping Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  3. ^ Pixel fillrate is calculated as the number of Render Output Units multiplied by the base (or boost) core clock speed.
  4. ^ Precision performance is calculated from the base (or boost) core clock speed based on a FMA operation.
  5. ^ Unified shaders : Texture mapping units : Render output units and Compute units (CU)

Radeon Pro (Mobile) Series Template:AMD Radeon Pro (Mobile)

See also

References

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