AMD's Radeon Pro Duo Graphics Card Releasing on April 26th - Dual Fiji GPU, 8GB HBM and 16 TFLOPS of Compute

AMD's Radeon Pro Duo will be officially launching on the 26^th of April 2022. The GPU houses two full-fledged Republic of the fiji islands GPUs with a total of 8196 stream processors and 8GB HBM (retention). The carte prominently features LiquidVR - which is AMD's purpose built platform for VR content. The dual-GPU monster has an MSRP of $1500 and will be landing at the terminate of April.

Radeon Pro Duo, AMD'due south dual-Fiji flagship landing on the 26th of April - will retail for $1500

The Radeon Pro Duo, so far, holds the title of the nigh powerful graphics card. Ane of the main criticisms leveraged at dual-GPU graphic cards is that they are working in what is essentially Crossfire. Which means that the scaling is not what a unmarried GPU setup with twice the specifications would offer. In the example of VR however, things are dissimilar. Unlike in 2D, VR requires simultaneous outputs to two screens (one for each eye). With some very clever software technology (and underlying hardware support on the Fijis), Liquid VR allows devs to proceeds close to 100% scaling on VR applications.

AMD has been focusing a lot on the VR industry with this generation of GPUs and it aims to make VR within the reach of more consumers (by increasing the total available marketplace). Running virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive requires quite a bit of horsepower, which in the case of the Oculus Rift is 2k resolution at 90 frames per 2d. This graphical horsepower can be produced by GPUs equivalent (or more) in power to the GTX 970 or the Radeon R9 290. Yet, every bit we up the visual fidelity, maintaining this standard gets very hard, and this is where the Radeon Pro Duo and LiquidVR combo come in.

LiquidVR is a ready of technologies that has a very clear mission: to take maximum advantage of GPUs to enable rich and seamless content.

Equally VR technology evolves, and then will LiquidVR – we have a robust route map that will tackle a broad range of issues the manufacture already talks up as the next gear up of challenges we'll exist facing. We believe that with LiquidVR, AMD has helped the industry to take a first big step in this wonderful new immersive world called virtual reality.

LiquidVR will continue to drive hardware and software technologies that volition ultimately lead to the nirvana of VR: 16K/middle, 144Hz and above refresh rate, and virtually no latency, all in a wireless, pocket-sized grade cistron package - AMD's Guennadi Riguer in an interview to Wccftech.

The Radeon Pro Duo will be able to leverage LiquidVR (exposed in DX11) and DirectX 12 to offer an incredible platform for VR content across all major setups. With over 16 TFLOPS of FP32, it tin can easily handle VR workloads better than any other unmarried graphics menu setup out there right now. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have already started rolling out and this GPU is the perfect single graphics card solution to power them. If Dual-GPU is not your thing, or you don't accept the budget for it, AMD will be launching the Polaris 10 and xi GPUs this year which should offer the "minimum VR spec" at a much more affordable level. Here are the final specifications of the AMD Radeon Pro Duo graphics card:

AMD Radeon Duo Pro Specifications

WCCFTech	AMD Radeon Pro Duo	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X	AMD Radeon R9 Nano	AMD Radeon R9 Fury	AMD Radeon R9 290X
GPU	Fiji XT x two	Republic of the fiji islands XT	Fiji XT	Republic of the fiji islands Pro	Hawaii XT
Stream Processors	8192	4096	4096	3584	2816
GCN Compute Units	128	64	64	56	44
Return Output Units	128	64	64	64	64
Texture Mapping Units	512	256	256	224	176
GPU Frequency	Up to 1000 Mhz	Up to 1050Mhz	Up to 1000 MHz	Up to 1000 MHz	1000Mhz
Memory	8GB HBM (4 GB Per GPU)	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB HBM	4GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	8192bit (4096 Per GPU)	4096bit	4096bit	4096bit	512bit
Memory Frequency	500Mhz	500Mhz	500 MHz	500Mhz	1250Mhz
Constructive Memory Speed	1Gbps	1Gbps	1Gbps	1Gbps	5Gbps
Retention Bandwidth	1 TB/south	512GB/south	512GB/due south	512GB/s	320GB/s
Cooling	Liquid Cooling	Liquid Cooling	Air Cooling	Air Cooling	Air Cooling
Performance (FP32)	16.38 TFLOPs	8.6 TFLOPS	8.19 TFLOPS	seven.2 TFLOPS	v.6 TFLOPS
TDP	350W	275W	175W	275W	250W
Launch Price	$1500	$649	$649	$549	$549
Launch Date	26th April	24th June 2022	7th September 2022	10th July 2022	24th October 2022