Author: Century Ogilvy
The new professional graphics card series AMD Radeon PRO W6800 is AMD’s most powerful RDNA workstation graphics card to date, bringing up to 79% performance improvement over the previous generation. Note 1
Taipei—June 9, 2021—AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the Radeon™ PRO W6000 series workstation graphics card, which brings excellent performance, stability and reliability to professional users. The new graphics card has been carefully designed and optimized to provide powerful performance for demanding architectural design workloads, ultra-high-resolution media projects, complex design and engineering simulations, and advanced image and video editing programs.
AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture is the foundation of a new generation of high-performance computers, laptops and many game consoles. Based on the award-winning RDNA™ 2 architecture, AMD Radeon PRO W6800 in the new product lineup is the most powerful AMD RDNA workstation graphics card today. Note 1. The product series also includes AMD Radeon PRO W6600 graphics cards carefully developed for ultra-high-performance workflows, and AMD Radeon PRO W6600M graphics cards designed to provide performance for professional mobile workstations.
Scott Herkelman, AMD’s global vice president and general manager of the graphics business group, said that AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture was designed to provide world-class performance for a wide range of applications and workloads. By importing this breakthrough architecture into the workstation graphics card product line, users can process larger data sets, significantly reduce rendering time, and accelerate the processing of highly complex models and simulation operations. The AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series is like a new weapon in the hands of professionals, accelerating their execution of projects and turning ideas in their minds into actual works.
The key functions and features of the new AMD Radeon W6000 series workstation graphics cards include:
Award-winning AMD RDNA 2 architecture-Based on an advanced 7-nanometer process, AMD RDNA 2 architecture has a series of advanced features that can raise the performance and efficiency of professional graphics cards to a new level. Enhanced arithmetic unit with real-time hardware accelerated ray tracing-The enhanced arithmetic unit combined with a ray accelerator can increase the rendering speed in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2021 Note 2 by up to 46% compared to the Radeon PRO graphics card based on the previous generation architecture. In addition, the support for Variable Rate Shading (VRS) brings real-time realistic viewing area and rendering capabilities. AMD Infinity Cache-integrates the last layer of data cache up to 128MB on the GPU chip (die), designed to reduce latency and power consumption, so that AMD Radeon PRO W6800 can provide the most powerful RDNA workstation GPU performance to date1. Smart Access Memory-Use AMD Ryzen™ 5000 series desktop processors or specific AMD Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors to access the data in the entire high-speed GDDR6 graphics memory, thereby enhancing the performance of key professional-grade workloads3. AMD Radeon™ PRO Viewport Boost-Designed for today’s professional workloads and compatible software, it helps the update rate per second of the visible area to increase in response to the size of the project file. Passed major professional software certifications-AMD continues to cooperate with many leading professional software application providers to ensure that AMD Radeon PRO graphics cards can cope with the demanding 7×24 hours continuous operation environment, and have passed various tests to achieve more excellent standards, providing The stability and reliability required by workstation professionals. Please refer to this link for the list of certified applications.
AMD Radeon PRO W6000 series workstation graphics card specifications
model
Stream processor
TFLOPS
GDDR6 ECC memory
Memory bandwidth
Memory interface
Display output
AMD Radeon PRO W6800
3840
(60 CUs)
Up to 17.83 (FP32)
Up to 35.66 (FP16)
32GB
@ 16 Gbps
512 GB/s
256-bit
6x Mini-DisplayPort™ 1.4
AMD Radeon PRO W6600
1792
(28 CUs)
Up to 10.4 (FP32)
Up to 20.8 (FP16)
8GB
@ 14 Gbps
224 GB/s
128-bit
4x DisplayPort 1.4
AMD Radeon PRO W6600M
1792
(28 CUs)
Up to 10.4 (FP32)
Up to 20.8 (FP16)
8GB
@ 14 Gbps
224 GB/s
128-bit
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The AMD Radeon PRO W6800 graphics card is now available for sale at major electronics and physical retailers, with a suggested market price of US$2,249. AMD Radeon PRO W6600 graphics card is expected to be sold through electronic and physical retailers in the third quarter of 2021, with a suggested market price of US$649. The AMD Radeon PRO W6600M graphics processor will be installed on the HP Fury ZBook G8 mobile workstation and is expected to be available for sale in selected countries from July 2021.
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Note 1: The test was performed by AMD Performance Lab on March 23, 2021. The system configuration under test: AMD Ryzen™ 5950X, embedded AMD Radeon™ PRO W5700 core; AMD Radeon™ PRO W6800 sample chip before mass production. Measurement program: Lumion v.11 (Museum, Valley Winery, Downtown Development, Glass House, Villa Cabrera, Farnsworth, Residential Home, Beach House, etc.); Topaz Video Enhance AI 2.0.0 (Artemis-HQ, Gaia-HQ, etc.) , And Theia-Detail projects); Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS® Visualize 2021 SP3 (Camaro preset angle, Yellow motorcycle, Snowmobile and other projects). Actual performance may vary due to various factors, including task execution, driver version, and hardware configuration. RPW-362
Note 2: The test was performed by AMD Performance Lab on March 23, 2021. The system configuration under test: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X with AMD Radeon™ PRO W5700 / AMD Radeon™ PRO WX 9100 / AMD Radeon™ PRO W6600 ( Sample before mass production) / AMD Radeon™ PRO W6800 (sample before mass production), adjusted to 3840×2160 display resolution. Measurement program: Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS® Visualize 2021 SP3 (ProRender low sample) test item. Actual performance may vary due to various factors, including driver version and hardware configuration. RPW-382
Note 3: To enable Smart Access Memory technology, AMD Radeon 6000 series GPUs; Ryzen 5000 or 3000 series GPUs (excluding Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G) are required; and AMD 500 series motherboards must be installed with the latest BIOS update file. BIOS must support AGESA 1.1.0.0 or above. Users can download the latest version of BIOS from the original manufacturer’s website. For more information and system specifications, please refer to the official website https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/smart-access-memory. GD-178
Note 4: Radeon™ PRO Viewport Boost is currently compatible with Autodesk 3ds Max®, Autodesk Revit®, and Epic Twinmotion® software. Other professional software products will be announced in the future. GD-189
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