What simply occurred? AMD has been retaining a comparatively low profile currently relating to shopper graphics playing cards, as a substitute directing its power towards the extra worthwhile, booming knowledge heart market. The corporate’s newest providing aimed toward this trade is the Radeon Professional V710 – an enterprise-grade GPU designed particularly for cloud computing workloads similar to Desktop-as-a-Service, Workstation-as-a-Service, cloud gaming, and AI/machine studying functions.
What makes the V710 significantly intriguing is that it is going to be an Azure cloud unique, a minimum of initially. Microsoft’s cloud prospects will have the ability to provision between one-sixth and a full occasion of this GPU, with as much as 24GB of its beefy 28GB GDDR6 video reminiscence at their disposal.
Beneath the hood, the V710 is powered by AMD’s RDNA 3 structure and the identical Navi 32 GPU that drives the Radeon RX 7700 XT gaming graphics card. It packs 54 compute models, with AMD saying it boasts “excellent ray tracing efficiency relative to AMD RDNA 2.”
Nonetheless, some key variations set it other than its gaming counterpart. The V710’s GDDR6 reminiscence has been supercharged from 12GB to 28GB, with reminiscence bandwidth climbing to a stout 448 GB/s. And to swimsuit the thermal constraints of knowledge heart environments, it additionally has a decrease 500MHz GPU clock pace and a diminished 158W TDP.
As for video encoding/decoding capabilities, the cardboard covers all the fashionable codecs like AV1, HEVC, and AVC for clean cloud gaming streams. AMD has additionally baked in devoted AI accelerators and assist for its open-source ROCm software program stack to speed up machine studying workloads.
Curiously, the Professional V710 is available in a compact single-slot kind issue and is passively cooled. It is clearly not supposed for normal desktop PCs both – you will not have the ability to purchase this one at retail because it’s an Azure knowledge centers-only product. It is going to be built-in inside situations of the NV v710 v5, which is powered by the AMD Epyc 9374F processor.
AMD has made no secret of its rising focus on the information heart market over shopper graphics in latest occasions. The technique additionally consists of the corporate shifting away from top-of-the-line GPUs to churn out extra mainstream choices, leaving the higher echelon to Nvidia as a substitute. The corporate has even floated the thought of unifying its Radeon gaming and Professional lineups the place it is sensible going ahead.