AMD Radeon Pro
| Design firm | Advanced Micro Devices |
|---|---|
| Type | Professional workstations |
Radeon Pro is AMD's brand of professional oriented GPUs. It replaced AMD's FirePro brand in 2016. Compared to the Radeon brand for mainstream consumer/gamer products, the Radeon Pro brand is intended for use in workstations and the running of computer-aided design (CAD), computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital content creation (DCC), high-performance computing/GPGPU applications, and the creation and running of virtual reality programs and games.
The Radeon Pro product line directly competes with Nvidia's Quadro and Tesla lines of professional workstation cards.
The first card to be released under the Radeon Pro name was the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016. The card features two liquid cooled Fury X cores and was marketed strongly for both the running and creation of virtual reality content with the slogan ″For Gamers Who Create and Creators Who Game". The aesthetics and marketing of the Pro Duo follow that of the rest of the Fury products in the 300 series.
Using AMD Radeon's GCN 1.2 architecture, the Radeon Pro SSG was unveiled in July 2016. SSG stands for Solid State Graphics, and the card will couple AMD's Fiji core with Solid-state storage to increase the frame buffer for rendering. This expansion of quick access storage will, therefore, relieve the issue of latency that occurs when a GPU has to retrieve information from a mass storage device via the CPU when a card's limited VRAM is maxed out in heavy workloads. Users will be able to add up to 1TB of PCIe M.2 NAND flash memory to improve render and scrubbing times. AMD demonstrated a 5.3 fold increase in performance on 8K video scrubbing. This SSD storage space can be made available to the operating system or controlled entirely by the GPU. The card is current available as a beta program, with general availability expected in 2017.
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