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AMD Radeon Pro VII : What You Need To Know!

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AMD just launched Radeon Pro VII – their latest workstation graphics card for broadcast and engineering professionals!

Here is a quick primer on what you need to know about the AMD Radeon Pro VII, including the official tech briefing!

 

AMD Radeon Pro VII : What You Need To Know!

The new AMD Radeon Pro VII graphics card is designed for post-production teams to create 8K content, as well as engineers and data scientists working on complex models with large datasets.

Here are the Radeon Pro VII’s key features :

Leading Double Precision Performance

With up to 6.5 TFLOPS (FP64) of double precision performance for demanding engineering and scientific workloads, the Radeon Pro VII graphics card provides 5.6X the performance-per-dollar versus the NVIDIA Quadro RTX on the AMD Internal Benchmark for Altair EDEM “Screw Auger” viewset. 

High-Speed Memory

The AMD Radeon Pro VII has 16 GB of HBM2 with 1 TB/s memory bandwidth and full ECC capability, allowing it to handle large and complex models and datasets smoothly with low latency.

AMD Infinity Fabric Link

This high-bandwidth, low-latency connection allows memory sharing between two AMD Radeon Pro VII GPUs, delivering up to 5.25X PCIe 3.0 x16 bandwidth with a communication speed of up to 168 GB/s peer-to-peer between GPUs.

This allows you to increase project workload size and scale, develop more complex designs and run larger simulations to drive scientific discovery.

Remote Working

Users can access their physical workstation from virtually anywhere for unhindered productivity with the remote workstation IP built into AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise driver.

PCIe Support

PCIe 4.0 delivers double the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0 to enable smooth performance for 8K, multichannel image interaction.

Frame Lock / Genlock

When paired with the AMD FirePro S400 synchronisation module, this allows for precise synchronised output for display walls, digital signage and other visual displays.

Multi-Display Support

The AMD Radeon Pro VII supports up to 6 synchronised display panels, full HDR and 8K screen resolution (single display) combined with ultra-fast encode and decode support for enhanced multi-stream workflows.

 

AMD Radeon Pro VII : Specifications

Specifications AMD Radeon Pro VII
GPU Vega 20
Transistor Count 13.2 Billion
Fabrication Process 7 nm
Die Size 331 mm²
Stream Processors 3840
Single Precision 13.1 TFLOPS
Double Precision 6.5 TFLOPS
Graphics Memory 16 GB ECC HBM2
Memory Bus Width 4096-bits
Memory Speed 1000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth 1024 GB/s
Display Ports 6 x Mini-DP 1.4
TDP 250 watts

 

AMD Radeon Pro VII : Price + Availability

The AMD Radeon VII has a launch price of US$1,899, and will be available starting mid-June 2020.

 

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AMD Radeon ProRender May 2020 Updates!

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With the launch of Radeon Pro VII, AMD announced a slew of updates for Radeon ProRender, including a sneak peek of Radeon ProRender 2.0!

Here is the full list of updates, as well as the official AMD briefing on its performance with Radeon Pro VII!

 

AMD Radeon ProRender Performance with Radeon Pro VII

First, here is the official AMD tech briefing on the Radeon ProRender performance with Radeon Pro VII.

 

AMD Radeon ProRender May 2020 Updates!

Here are the new updates AMD is introducing for Radeon ProRender, with a special experimental Radeon ProRender 2.0 mode!

Easier Implementation

AMD Radeon ProRender SDKs are now freely available under the permissive Apache Licence 2.0, simplifying the licensing agreement to use Radeon ProRender in your own application.

AMD is also making open-source versions of all their Radeon ProRender plug-ins available on GPUOpen, so developers can use as examples on how to integrate ProRender into their application.

Updated SDKs

A new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0 SDK is now available, which will introduce these new features :

  • a new flexible shader node system,
  • out-of-core support for heavy geometry,
  • improved rendering algorithm for better convergence with the same samples per pixel, and
  • better CPU + GPU rendering

AMD also released Radeon Rays 4.0, an update of their high-performance ray intersection acceleration library, with a custom AABB hierarchy, and GPU Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) optimisations.

This new version supports both AMD GPUs and CPUs, as well as those of other vendors using DirectX 12 and Vulkan.

New Unreal Engine Plug-In

AMD is also releasing their new Radeon ProRadeon plug-in for Unreal Engine, which introduces :

  • Vulkan API-based Full Spectrum Rendering technology
  • Full OpenCL path-traced rendering
  • AI-accelerated demonising
  • Adaptive sampling
  • Native tone mapping
  • Gamma controls

This plug-in is fully-integrated into Unreal Engine, and uses existing lights, materials and textures of any scene you create.

Updated Blender Plug-In

AMD also updated their plug-in to support the upcoming release of Blender 2.83, which includes :

  • an OpenVBD volumes node
  • improved export times for image files
  • support for ObjectID and MaterialID AOVs
  • experimental Radeon ProRender 2.0 mode

Updated Autodesk Maya Plug-In

They also updated their Autodesk Maya plug-in to support version 2020, which adds features like :

  • support for rendering OpenVBD volumes
  • Radeon ProRender lights showing in Maya Light Editor and HyperShade
  • support for more Maya shader nodes, camera motion blur
  • experimental Radeon ProRender 2.0 mode

Updated SideFX Houdini 18 Plug-In

This plug-in was updated to include :

  • support for Houdini principled shader
  • improved Radeon ProRender area lights
  • added motion blur support
  • improved OpenVBD volume rendering

 

AMD Radeon ProRender : Where To Download

Here is where you can download the updated SDKs and plug-ins :

 

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Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 : What’s New?

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AMD just launched Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2! Here is their official tech briefing, and details of what’s new and improved!

 

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 : What’s New?

On 13 May 2020, AMD announced their second enterprise driver release of the year – Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2.

Here are the highlights of what’s new and improved in AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2!

Performance Improvements

AMD continues to work closely with leading ISV application developers to improve performance.

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 is now up to 14% faster in the geomean of the SPECviewperf 13 benchmark viewsets, compared to last year’s 19.Q2 driver.

Intelligent Power Management

When upgraded to AMD Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2, the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card will use up to 21% less system power when running Photoshop than the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card using NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver.

Better Multitasking Performance

When using SOLIDWORKS and CPU rendering with KeyShot 8 in the background, AMD Radeon Pro W5700 using Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 will deliver up to 2.4x better average performance compared to the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card using NVIDIA Quadro Optimal Driver for Enterprise (ODE) R440 U7 (442.74) driver.

 

Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 20.Q2 : Where To Download

You can download the new driver suite for FREE at the AMD Drivers and Support page.

 

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