AMD has unveiled the latest additions to its professional GPU range. The new AMD Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500 graphics cards bring support for DisplayPort 2.1, up to 8k60 displays, hardware AV1 encode/decode, and up to 20TFLOPs of compute power.
Pitched as competing with Nvidia‘s A2000 and T1000 cards, the new AMD models hit similar price points while having considerably higher performance in some key metrics. The Radeon Pro W7600 price is $646 and the card will deliver 155 points in SPECviewperf Geomean. This compares to an Nvidia A2000 price of $646 and SPECviewperf Geomean score of 100.
Meanwhile, the Radeon Pro W7500 price is $429 and it can churn out a SPECviewperf Geomean score of 113, which compares to the Nvidia T1000 price of $424 and SPECviewperf Geomean score of 58. Notably, both new AMD cards do deliver this performance with markedly higher power consumption, though, with the W7600 TDP of 130W being nearly double the A2000 TDP of 70W while the W7500 TDP of 70W is 20W more than the T1000 TDP of 50W.
The new cards are based on the same RDNA 3 architecture that powers the full current Radeon RX 7000 range of cards, including the similarly-named RX 7600 and a possibly upcoming RX 7500. This brings with it feature such as DisplayPort 2.1 support with a massive 38.7GB/s bandwidth and support for 8K 120Hz displays with compression or 8K60 displays using an uncompressed signal.
AV1 video encoding and decoding is also natively supported and the new GPUs include AI accelerators for 2.3x peformance of previous AMD architectures. There’s also 50 percent more ray tracing performance on on tap, per compute unit.
While not such an exciting announcement for gamers but they could be a very welcome option for any professionals seeking powerful but cost effective workstation graphics cards for video production, CAD design, and more. Plus, they can also work with games, even if they’re unlikely to make it onto our best graphics card list. Instead we’d recommend the non-professional-certified RX 7600 for an entry level gaming GPU.
The full list of AMD Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500 specs and pricing is below.
AMD Radeon Pro W7600 specs
| GPU | Navi 33 |
| Stream processors | 4096 (32 CUs) |
| RT cores | 64 |
| ROPs | 64 |
| Boost clock | 2.43GHz |
| L3 cache (2nd-gen Infinity Cache) | 32MB |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory clock | 18GHz effective |
| Interface | 16x PCIe 4 |
| TDP | 130W |
AMD Radeon Pro W7600 price
The AMD Radeon Pro W7600 price is $646, making it very slightly cheaper than the competing Nvidia A2000 price of $646.
AMD Radeon Pro W7500 specs
| GPU | Navi 33 |
| Stream processors | 3584 (28 CUs) |
| RT cores | 64 |
| ROPs | 64 |
| Boost clock | 1.7GHz |
| L3 cache (2nd-gen Infinity Cache) | 32MB |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory clock | 10.8GHz effective |
| Interface | 16x PCIe 4 |
| TDP | 70W |
AMD Radeon Pro W7500 price
The AMD Radeon Pro W7500 price is $429, making it very slightly cheaper than the competing Nvidia T1000 price of $424.
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