AMD launches the challenge to the mid-range of the NVIDIA RTX A4000 series with a new one professional video cardwhich has a very specific goal: to be the best under $1,000. We’re talking about the new one AMD Radeon PRO W7700the most balanced of the W7000 series, which arrives months after the announcement of the top range and which stands out as one of the most captivating choices in the professional sector.
Radeon PRO W7700: Technical Features
- Architecture: RDNA 3
- Productive process: 5 nm GCD, 6 nm GCD
- Compute Units: 48
- AI accelerator: 96
- Video memory: 16GB GDDR6
- Memory interface width: 256-bit
- Bandwidth: 5.4 TB/s
- Declared power: 32 TFLOPS
- TDP: 190 Watts
- Diet: 8 pins
- Connectivity: 4 x DisplayPort 2.1
- Hardware support: AV1 (encoding/decoding)
The new AMD Radeon PRO W7700 is a video card designed for workstations, capable of offering high performance with i professional software most widespread (Bender, Maxon, SolidWorks, Adobe), but also with strong calculation skills forartificial intelligence. We are therefore not talking about a GPU for gaming, like the Radeon RX 7900 XT, which has similar characteristics but a completely different nature.
The specifications are those you read above, inherited in part from higher-end models such as W7900 and W7800. The number of compute units is high and there are many hardware accelerators for AI. Good video memory capacity, with 16GB GDDR6 and codec support AV1.
At the connectivity level we find 4 connectors DisplayPort 2.1 with bandwidth up to 5.4 TB/s, therefore among the best connections you can have at the moment. Not to forget the energy consumption, with a TBP of 190W. The profile is quite slim, with a width of 2 slots. Dissipation is provided by a single fan with blower design.
The expected performances are very high. Compared to direct competitors in the NVIDIA range, the overtaking is consistent: on an overall level, the W7700 does 39% better than RTX 4000 SFF Adaby 34% compared to RTX A4000 and 20% compared to RTX A4500. Below you will find the tables with direct comparisons on different benchmarks and software.
Price and Exit
AMD Radeon PRO W7700 will be available on the international market within the end of the yearwith a starting price of $999excluded taxes.
This means it is the PRO series video card more powerful among those a less than $1,000practically unique in its price range, given that the other AMDs cost either much more (W7900 at $3,999, W7800 at $2,499) or much less (W7600 at $599, W7500 at $429).
The new W7700 offers a good balance between performance and price, therefore it represents a very interesting solution for professionals who are looking for a lot of power but don’t need top-of-the-range configurations.
Certainly the challenge posed to the models NVIDIA RTX 4000 series it’s very compelling. AMD is aiming precisely at the slightly lower price to beat the competition from models like the RTX A4000 and the RTX A4500. We’ll see if the market will reward this choice.
