AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500

As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their next wave of professional cards under the Radeon Pro lineup. Following the launch of their high-end Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800 graphics cards back in the second quarter of this year, today the company is announcing the low-to-mid-range members of the Radeon Pro W7000 series: the Radeon Pro W7500 and Radeon Pro W7600. From a report: Both based on AMD's monolithic Navi 33 silicon, the latest Radeon Pro parts will hit the shelves a bit later this quarter. The two cards, as a whole, will make up what AMD defines as the mid-range segment of their professional video card market. And like their flagship counterparts, AMD is counting on a combination of RDNA 3's advanced features, including AV1 encoding support, improved compute and ray tracing throughput, and DisplayPort 2.1 outputs to help drive sales of the new video cards. That, and as is tradition, significantly undercutting NVIDIA's competing professional cards.

Not unlike their high-end counterparts, for this generation AMD has decided to expand the size of their mid-range pro graphics lineup. Whereas the previous generation had the sole W6600 (and W6400 at entry-level), the W7000 series gets both a W7600 card and a W7500 card. Besides the obvious performance difference, the other big feature separating the two cards is power consumption. The Radeon Pro W7600 is a full-height video card running at 130W, while the W7500 is explicitly designed as a sub-75W card that can be powered entirely by a PCIe slot, coming in at a cool 70 Watts. The Radeon Pro W7600 is priced at $599 -- $50 cheaper than its predecessor -- whereas the W7500 will bring up the rear of the W7000 product stack at $429.

8GB ram?

[WaffleMonster]

Seriously? Is it really necessary to look at the other specs?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Indeed. Why can't nvidia/amd get a brain and put 64 or 128 or even 256gigs on a video card. Right now, the limiting factor of running an LLM on a single GPU isn't compute, it's the RAM needed to hold it within the device... with a 128gigs we'd have locally running LLMs everywhere...

though... they probably want/prefer folks to be buying 8 GPUs instead of 1 just to run the things... :-/

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[Can'tNot]

You answered your own question there, they've been limiting the ram on the gaming cards in order to prevent other people from buying them. If you want a compute card then you're going to have to shell out for one.