AMD’s Radeon AI Pro R9700 Rounds Out The Market
Intel Joined The AI Crowd And Now AMD Has An Offering
AMD announced the Radeon AI Pro R9700 at Computex, their new hope to take at least a little of the AI market from NVIDIA and perhaps hold off Intel’s new stackable Arc AI cards. It’s built on RDNA 4, indeed it’s 4nm Navi 48 GPU from TSMC is the same one you will find in an RX 9070 XT, but there is one very noticeable difference. The Radeon AI Pro R9700 has 32GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256 bit bus running at 20 Gbps. The choice to go with GDDR6 instead of HBM means AMD can sell the card at a much lower price than they could if they had gone with HBM. We don’t know exactly what that price will be, but it will have to be competitive.
AMD’s long-lived Radeon Pro W brand has effectively been given a facelift here, with AMD promoting the AI inference potential for the new cards front-and-center via the new Radeon AI Pro branding.
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