The Pro WX Series includes, Radeon Pro WX 7100 GPU, Radeon Pro WX 5100 GPU and Radeon Pro WX 4100 GPU.
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SIGGRAPH – At an exclusive event for some of the world’s top artists, designers and engineers, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today unveiled powerful new solutions to address modern content creation and engineering: the new Radeon™ Pro WX Series of professional graphics cards.
AMD competes with Nvidia with its new workstation Pro WX graphics chip dedicated to professional designers, announced at the Siggraph graphics technology conference in Anaheim, California. Using what AMD gave as SSG Technology, or Solid State Graphics Technology, AMD will graft high-speed NAND memory to its upcoming line of professional GPU’s.
This can boost 8k raw video processing from 17 frames per second up to an impressive 90 or more frames per second.
Ever since Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) revealed the RX 480, RX 470, and RX 460, people have been wondering what can the AMD’s new polaris architecture bring to the table to compete with Nvidia. As AMD consistently upholds: the new Radeon Pro SSG is about “the art of the impossible”. The Radeon pro WX7100 has 2304 stream processors and 128 texture units, Anandtech reported. In fact, giant corporations like Microsoft and Google have opened up large parts of their code so that developers can create features and applications that can advance their own work. AMD equipped its graphics card with two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots that can accommodate up to 1TB of NAND flash memory to massively increase the available frame buffer for high-end rendering projects, Ars Technica reports. Although AMD only showed a prototype of the Radeon Pro SSG, the company stated that it didn’t wish to dwell on the GPU’s performance.
We have a lot of news coming out of AMD’s kitchen, including new GPUs, an open-source rendering engine, and a new solution for large dataset applications.
But AMD could release final products in the first quarter next year, said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect of AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group.
Unlike the Radeon Pro SSG, the WX7100 only has 8GB GDDR5 for its memory which is then powered by the 256-bit bus.
For now Radeon Pro SSG, it will run on Beta version and in 2017, the company is scheduling to release its complete version. AMD says this card is aimed at small-form-factor workstations. These models don’t deliver the performance of the WX 7100 but are targeted at video editing, gaming development, product design, and engineering applications.
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The last few days have seen a few insane graphics cards announced, with the likes of Nvidia’s Quadro P6000 offering ridiculous levels of performance at a hefty price tag.
