Finally! AMD announced the final version of the video card Radeon Pro Duo (earlier, possibly, Fury X2 connected with the names and Fiji Gemini), which was developed with the idea of creating and displaying materials, associated with virtual reality (VR). Новый ускоритель может похвастаться абсолютными возможностями доступными на рынке.
card concept has remained unchanged, но окончательная форма отличается от прототипа объявленного в прошлом году. Fiji two graphic appeared on the same board, each of which has at its disposal 4 GB HBM 1024 bits. Besides, There are four video output DisplayPort, а дополнительное питание дают целых три 8-контактных разъема.
On a suitable accelerator cooling water temperature cares, developed by Cooler Master. This design uses two water unit for nuclei, small blocks, diverting heat from the power section and with a separate radiator fan 120mm. Map resembles model Radeon R9 Anger X, но немного длиннее (хотя гораздо короче, than the previous 2-smart designs).
| Model | Radeon R9 Anger X | Radeon R9 295X2 | Radeon Pro Duo |
| architecture | GCN 1.2 / 28 nm | GCN 1.1 / 28 nm | GCN 1.2 / 28 nm |
| graphic etc.. | Fiji XT | 2x Hawaii XT | 2x Fiji XT |
| stream processors | 4096 | 2x 2816 | 2x 4096 |
| texture units | 256 | 2x 176 | 256 |
| 64 | 2x 64 | 64 | |
| Core Frequency | 1050 MHz | 1018 MHz | 1000 MHz (?) |
| Processing power | 8,6 TeraFLOPS | 11,5 TeraFLOPS | 16 TeraFLOPS |
| video memory | 4 GB HBM 1024 bits | 2x 4 GB GDDR5, 512-bit | 2x 4 GB HBM 1024 bits |
| Memory clock frequency | 1000 MHz | 5000 MHz | 1000 MHz (?) |
| Memory Bandwidth | 512 GB / sec | 2x 320 GB / sec | 2x 512 GB / sec |
| TDP | 250 AT | 500 AT | ? |
| Nutrition | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin | 3x 8-pin |
| price (premiere) | $649 | $1499 | $1499 |
The manufacturer boasts, that Radeon Pro Duo is the best graphics card. The computing power of a single-precision reaches 16 TFLOPS, almost 2 раза выше относительно Radeon R9 Ярость X и почти на 40% выше относительно прежнего короля производительности – Radeon R9 295X2. Not bad, by the way, It showed itself in 3DMark Fire Strike – Below you will find a comparison with the Radeon R9 295X2 and competitive model GeForce GTX Titan Z.
3DMark Fire Strike
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| AMD Radeon Pro Duo |  20150 |
| AMD Radeon R9 295X2 |  16717 |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan С |  14945 |
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme
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| AMD Radeon Pro Duo |  11466 |
| AMD Radeon R9 295X2 |  9250 |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan С |  7740 |
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra
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| AMD Radeon Pro Duo |  6211 |
| AMD Radeon R9 295X2 |  5121 |
| Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan С |  4099 |
by the way, should be added, that Radeon Pro Duo is the first graphics card, which received a certificate Radeon VR Ready Creator - this means sufficient performance and functionality in the development and use of content VR professionals.
The map was estimated 1499 dollars and will go on sale in the coming months. costs, but, remember, it was designed primarily for developers and with the package LiquidVR SDK provides a platform for content creation virtual reality. One of the first recipient of the platform is studio Crytek, которая использует ее в программе Crytek VR First для молодых разработчиков VR.
MainGear company has already developed a workstation, which is designed for directors of VR - based it on Intel Haswell-E platform and graphics card AMD Radeon Pro Duo. As the workstation, it looks really cool. Take a look at the way, On the photo.
it turns out, that AMD plans to further strengthen its position in the market of virtual reality. Will it help to increase the share of the market of graphics cards and stop the dominance of Nvidia? Well, time will tell - in the end, soon, As expected, debuts a new generation of graphics cards, Polaris, is created, in particular, with the idea of VR. See also our Top cards
A source: AMD, VideoCardz, own
