Announced the amd radeon pro duo, a dual graphics card with 32gb of gddr5 memory

AMD has released a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo graphics card with Polaris architecture, which this time is not designed for gaming but rather for professionals who require a lot of processing power when working with editing applications such as CAD / CAM / CAE or with other software that has support for OpenCL 2.0.

Additionally, professionals in the multimedia world will be able to take advantage of native 10-bit support for each color channel, as well as support for decoding and encoding content in the H.265 format through hardware acceleration.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo with two Polaris 10 GPUs

AMD Radeon Pro Duo

Unlike the AMD Fiji Radeon Pro Duo, the new Radeon Pro Duo graphics card is air-cooled and comes with a dual expansion slot.

It also offers 32GB of GDDR5 memory, compared to the Fiji Radeon Pro Duo which had an HBM2 memory architecture. The new model incorporates 3 full-size Display Port connectors on the rear, as well as an HDMI port.

With so much memory, the Radeon pro Duo will also have support for single-cable 5K and 8K monitors, as well as dual-cable 5K and 8K displays. In order to be connected to the power supply, the new graphic requires two 8 + 6-pin PCI Express connectors.

The Radeon pro Duo can hardware accelerate a host of applications and plugins, including software such as DaVinci Resolve, Autodesk Maya, Dassault Systems SolidWorks, and The Foundry Mari.

With two graphics cards working in parallel, it offers 113% higher performance compared to the Raeon Pro W7 7100 in Autodesk Maya software with the Radeon ProRender plugin enabled.

Although it was announced today, the new Radeon Pro Duo will go on sale only in May. AMD confirmed that its price will be only $ 999 (about 1, 000 euros in exchange), much less than the Fiji Radeon Pro Duo, which cost $ 1, 500 when it was announced.