AMD Announces AMD Radeon Pro W5700 Professional PC Workstation Graphics Card

At Autodesk University 2019 held this week in Las Vegas, NV, AMD announced the AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700, said to be the world’s first 7nm professional PC workstation graphics card. According to company materials, the new graphics card delivers new levels of performance and advanced features that enable 3D designers, architects and engineers to visualize, review and interact with their designs in real time, dramatically accelerating decision-making processes and product development cycles.

In building the new launch, AMD used similar architecture to previous models, but according to Scott Jackson, Director of Product Management, Workstation Graphics, they wanted to know how can they can align with consumer launches and build on their momentum. Where is there a need in the market and how do we target this market? Each has different apps and some are more CPU intensive. AMD was looking for an opportunity where are there are gaps that a product like this could fill. One area is in design, 3D foundational work.

“As we talked to customers, system integrators and ISVs we’re seeing a transition in workflows, 2D and 3D that we’re very good at,” said Jackson. “But also some of the new workflows, with traditional 2D/3D CAD foundation driving the changes, not just a great gaming architecture but workstation architecture. Customers wanted more value from their investments and want better product quality and faster time to market. The way they’ve been doing that is by adding other workflows. VR has been real bit as is real time visualization.

Data shared internally is key for design. AMD looked at the performance of entry level cards in that workflow in 2D/3D. There are really nice real time visualization and VR cards that don’t provide the experience and real time creativity that customers are really looking for. So AMD set out to build a midrange card that would provide an excellent experience in all of industry segments and add a really strong value.”

The new card sports the same reliable drivers you have come to expect from AMD. The AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 workstation graphics card features the high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA architecture and state-of-the-art GDDR6 memory to handle large models and datasets, and is the first PC workstation graphics card to support high-bandwidth PCIe® 4.0 technology, according to company materials. It is ideal for professionals who push performance beyond traditional 3D design by generating photorealistic renders of their concepts and reviewing virtual prototypes of their designs in virtual reality (VR) environments.

The AMD RDNA Architecture delivers up to 41 percent higher average performance-per-wait than the previous generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture to run demanding 3D, real-time visualization and VR workloads.

Key capabilities and features of the AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 graphics card include (from company materials):

• High-Performance AMD RDNA Architecture – Features a redesigned geometry engine and compute units, delivering up to 25 percent higher performance-per-clock¹ and up to 41 percent higher average performance-per-watt² than the previous-generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.
• Exceptional Power Efficiency – AMD Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise’s intelligent power optimization, coupled with the power-efficient AMD RDNA architecture and 7nm process technology, enables the Radeon™ Pro W5700 graphics card to provide up to 18 percent better system efficiency than the competitive product³.
• Accelerated CPU/GPU Multitasking – Provides outstanding multitasking performance even in the most demanding situations, such as continuing to model while rendering a visualization in the background, providing up to 5.6X the application workflow performance with CPU load than the competition in the SPECviewperf® 13 benchmark⁴.
• Professional-grade Software – AMD Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise delivers professional-grade quality, continuous performance improvements and robust security as well as industry-leading features, including AMD Remote Workstation⁵ that allows professionals to work virtually from anywhere with feature and performance parity with the workstation GPU on their desk⁶.
• Innovative VR Software Features – AMD Radeon™ ReLive for VR enables professionals using AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 graphics cards to wirelessly visualize their creations with VR-capable applications and select standalone VR headsets, such as the HTC VIVE Focus™ Plus⁷.
• High-bandwidth PCIe® 4.0 – The AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 is the first PC workstation graphics card to support PCIe® 4.0, delivering double the bandwidth of PCIe® 3.0 to enable smooth performance for GPU-intensive applications.
• Professional Application Certification – Optimized and certified with leading Design and Manufacturing and Architecture, Engineering and Construction applications to deliver the stability and reliability required by workstation professionals. The list of Radeon™ Pro Software certified ISV applications can be found here.
• High-speed USB-C® – The AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 is the first PC workstation graphics card to include a USB-C® connector, supporting a growing selection of USB-C® based monitors and head-mounted displays (HMD).

With many more professional applications undergoing certification process for professional applications is an ongoing process, currently AMD Radeon Pro W5700 is certified for the following applications:

–             Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2019

–             Autodesk® Revit® 2020

–             Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2020

–             Autodesk® Maya® 2019

–             Autodesk® MotionBuilder® 2019

–             Autodesk® Mudbox® 2019

The AMD Radeon™ Pro W5700 graphics card is expected to available starting this week for USD $799 SEP from the following retailers, including:

• North America – B&H Photo and Newegg
• EMEA – Elmtec, Schneider and Tarox
• Asia Pacific – JD.com and  Mwave

Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, BIM, building information modeling, design, graphics cards, reality capture, visualization

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