AMD Introduces Radeon Pro WX 8200

[Carlosan]

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-introduces-radeon-pro-wx-8200-for-under-1000.html 

AMD announced a high-performance addition to the Radeon Pro WX workstation graphics lineup with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 graphics card, delivering the world’s best workstation graphics performance1 for under $1,000 for real-time visualization, virtual reality (VR) and photorealistic rendering. 

The AMD Vega 10 on the WX 8200 has a total number of stream processors of  3584. The Radeon Pro WX 8200 has a memory interface of 2048 bits wide and there is 8GB hbm2, (where the WX 9100 is 16GB). Just like that card, the WX 8200 has AMD's High Bandwidth Cache Controller, the Enhanced Pixel Engine, error correcting code memory and the Secure Processor. There are four mini display port 1.4 outputs present.

AMD also unveiled major updates to Radeon™ ProRender and a new alliance with the Vancouver Film School, enabling the next-generation of creators to realize their VFX visions through the power of Radeon™ Pro graphics. 

The new turbocharged AMD Radeon™ Pro WX 8200 graphics card allows professionals to effortlessly accelerate design and rendering. It is the ideal graphics card for design and manufacturing, media and entertainment, and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) workloads at all stages of product development.

“Professionals can fully unleash their creativity with the ‘Vega’ architecture2 at the heart of the Radeon™ Pro WX 8200 graphics card,” said Ogi Brkic, General Manager of Radeon Pro, AMD. “This powerful new workstation graphics card empowers creators to improve collaboration among remote teams with VR, create exciting new cinematic experiences and visualize their creations with ease, all at an incredible price point.”

 

[L'Ancien Regime]

Wow, thanks for this post....

 

And it's coming down at under $1000, so that's comparable performance to the Quadro P5000 at $2500 Cdn. That's last year's Nvidia Quadro though not the new RTX that has DDR6 VRAM not the P5000 with its DDR5 VRAM.

 

 

 

 

 

So basically this is a card that is in competition with Nvidia's last generation 2017 Pascal cards  but can't stand up to the new Turing (Volta) RTX cards.

 

And at that price point I'm wondering if even the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080's at $649 won't be a better deal. It'll only have 8 gb of VRAM but it'll be clocked faster for gamers than the Quadro series base model at $2300 

Edited August 16, 2018 by L'Ancien Regime

[L'Ancien Regime]

https://wccftech.com/what-does-radeon-do-now-to-stay-competitive/

 

 

 

 

[AbnRanger]

On 8/16/2018 at 2:24 PM, L'Ancien Regime said:

Wow, thanks for this post....

 

And it's coming down at under $1000, so that's comparable performance to the Quadro P5000 at $2500 Cdn. That's last year's Nvidia Quadro though not the new RTX that has DDR6 VRAM not the P5000 with its DDR5 VRAM.

 

 

 

 

 

So basically this is a card that is in competition with Nvidia's last generation 2017 Pascal cards  but can't stand up to the new Turing (Volta) RTX cards.

 

And at that price point I'm wondering if even the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080's at $649 won't be a better deal. It'll only have 8 gb of VRAM but it'll be clocked faster for gamers than the Quadro series base model at $2300 

I agree with that. AMD is a bit late to the party with the WX 8200, but I thought the Frontier Edition Vega card, a year or so ago, filled the same void, at the $1k mark. IIRC, it was basically a Vega 64 with 16GB of VRAM and workstation drivers.

The 8200 with half the VRAM seems like an odd decision. Keep it at 16GB and they have a pretty good case to make, cause the VRAM is the new HBM2 kind. Surely, AMD has been working on something revolutionary to respond to NVidia because they've had an extra year or so to prepare for NVidia's Volta/Turin line. Sometimes it's good to let your competition show their hand first, so you know what you have to beat.

[L'Ancien Regime]

This comes as a big surprise...I wasn't expecting this for another year or so..

 

https://wccftech.com/amd-confirms-new-7nm-radeon-graphics-cards-launching-in-2018/

 

AMD Confirms New 7nm Radeon Graphics Cards Launching in 2018

 

With all the media buzz surrounding NVIDIA’s brand spanking new 12nm RTX 20 series Turing graphics cards over the past couple of weeks, which promise to deliver 40% better performance than their predecessors, a similarly exciting news story on the Radeon side has seemingly flown under the radar.

 

Earlier this week the company confirmed in a press release, and later President and CEO Dr. Su confirmed in an interview with Marketwatch, that AMD is on track to launch the world’s first 7nm graphics cards this year. While the world’s first 7nm CPUs, built on the company’s next generation Zen 2 x86 64-bit core, are on track to be on-shelves next year.

The company had already demonstrated working 7nm GPU silicon back in June at Computex, which has been sampling since and is set to be available for purchase later this year. Based on an improved iteration of the Vega architecture which debuted last year, 7nm Vega is nothing short of a beast. The new GPU supports intrinsic AI instructions and features four HBM2 8GB stacks running across a 4096-bit memory interface for a total of 32GB vRAM.

 

Whilst the company hasn’t disclosed detailed specifications relating to the new GPU we could reasonably expect around one terabyte/s of memory bandwidth, higher clock speeds and significantly better power efficiency thanks to TSMC’s leading-edge 7nm process technology, which has reportedly enabled the company to extract an unbelievable 20.9 TFLOPS of graphics compute out of 7nm Vega, according to one source. If true, it would make it the world’s first 20 TFLOPS GPU.

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12910/amd-demos-7nm-vega-radeon-instinct-shipping-2018

In a fairly unexpected move, AMD formally demonstrated at Computex its previously-roadmapped 7nm-built Vega GPU. As per AMD's roadmaps on the subject, the chip will be used for AMD’s Radeon Instinct series accelerators for AI, ML, and similar applications.

The 7nm Vega GPU relies on the 5th Generation GCN architecture and in many ways resembles the Vega 10 GPU launched last year. Meanwhile, the new processor features a number of important hardware enhancements, particularly deep-learning ops specifically for the AI/ML markets. AMD isn't detailing these operations at this point, though at a minimum I'd expect to see Int8 dot products on top of Vega's native high speed FP16 support.

AMD also briefly discussed the use of Infinity Fabric with the new 7nm GPU. AMD already uses the fabric internally on Vega 10, and based on some very limited comments it looks like they are going to use it externally on the 7nm GPU. On AMD's Zeppelin CPU dies - used in the EPYC CPU lineup - AMD can switch between Infinity Fabric and PCIe over the same lanes depending on how a product is configured, so it's possible we're going to see something similar here. In other words, AMD can kick in Infinity Fabric when they have something else to connect it to on the other end.

https://wccftech.com/amds-infinity-fabric-detailed/

 

 

Edited September 2, 2018 by L'Ancien Regime