AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As $999 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Radeon PRO W7700 Launches As $999 GPU With Fully Open-Source Upstream Linux Drivers

AMD today is announcing what they call "the most powerful PRO GPU under $1,000" with the Radeon PRO W7700 that has a suggested price of $999. Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day. I received an AMD Radeon PRO W7700 and have been putting it through its paces successfully under Linux.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-pro-w7700

[peterdk]

I was expecting also a bit of a comparison with the non Pro cards. What makes these cards Pro and is it useful for let's say Blender usage?

[jindam]

Like the rest of the Radeon PRO W7000 series, the W7700 enjoys fully upstream and working open-source Linux graphics driver support for launch day.

since when this is happening, why gpu card?

[Weasel]

Benchmarks against NVIDIA?

[schmidtbag]

I was expecting also a bit of a comparison with the non Pro cards. What makes these cards Pro and is it useful for let's say Blender usage?

When comparing the W7900 to the 7900XTX, the only difference I could find is VRAM quantity. Traditionally, AMD's pro cards would have significantly better FP64 performance but in this case they appears to be the same.

[JEBjames]

@Michael

typo page 2

"atl east" should be "at least

[grigi]

So nice that you get pro cards from AMD to review again :-)

A bit weird that ROCm isn't finalised for these cards yet, considering all the qualification steps that's needed to call something "workstation class".
Hope it comes soon!

[NeoMorpheus]

Benchmarks against NVIDIA?

No need, just keep enjoying your ngreedia gpu, you dont need any validation besides Dear Leader Jensens blessing.

I dont like that current case color. Their old blue cards were simply beautiful.

[ezst036]

Has the closed source driver reached EOL?

[pipe13]

No need, just keep enjoying your ngreedia gpu, you dont need any validation besides Dear Leader Jensens blessing.

Thank you, I will do that. Really enjoying Nvidia's CUDA support thoughout their line.