New graphics cards aim to deliver top performance to demanding industries.
Chip-maker AMD has announced its new Radeon PRO W6000 Series workstation graphics card product line built on the RDNA 2 architecture. The company claims that the new cards provide 79 percent more speed than the prior generation, according to testing conducted in March of this year by AMD Performance Labs.
AMD crafted the workstation graphics cards with professionals in mind, especially those in architectural, design, engineering and multimedia occupations, by providing graphics capabilities geared for high-performance, reliability and stability. According to AMD, the graphics cards are well-suited for applications such as ultra-high resolution media projects, generating complex simulations, and advanced image and video editing.
“AMD RDNA 2 was designed from the ground up to deliver world-class performance for a wide range of applications and workloads,” said AMD’s Scott Herkelman. “Bringing this breakthrough architecture to our workstation graphics lineup allows users to tackle much larger datasets, dramatically reduce render times, and speed processing of highly complex models and simulations. The AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series gives professionals a powerful new tool in their arsenal to accelerate projects and bring creative visions to life.”
The W6000 series features AMD’s fastest workstation graphics card to date, the AMD Radeon PRO W6800. It also includes the AMD Radeon PRO W6600 workstation graphics card and the AMD Radeon PRO W6600M card for mobile workstations.
The AMD Radeon PRO W6800 stands out with its 3840 of stream processing power, up to 17.83 TFLOPS, 32GB of memory, 512 GB/s bandwidth and 256-bit memory interface — all specifications significantly higher than the Radeon PRO W6600 and W6600M models. In addition, the W6800 has 6 mini DisplayPort 1.4 ports, whereas the W660 has 4 DisplayPort 1.4. The W6600M display output is dependent on the specific laptop integration.
AMD RDNA 2
AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture is built on a 7nm process. The Radeon PRO W6000 series graphics cards are equipped with enhanced compute units and real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing, offering up to 46 percent faster rendering than previous-generation models. There’s also support for variable rate shading, which supports more efficient photorealism.
Another feature is the AMD Infinity Cache that holds up to 128MB of last-level data cache integration to reduce latency and power consumption. In addition, the Radeon PRO W6000 series also offers smart access memory through the AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktop Processors or the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Desktop Processors, which grant high-speed GDDR6 graphics memory.
The Radeon W6000 series workstation graphics is also capable of high viewport frames-per-second performance regardless of increases in project file sizes due to the AMD Radeon PRO Viewport Boost.
The Radeon PRO W6800 is currently available for a retail price of $2,249. The Radeon PRO W6600 graphics card is scheduled to hit the market in Q3 2021 and will retail for $649. The Radeon PRO W6600M is already available in the HP Fury ZBook G8 mobile workstation in select countries.
