The new card, priced under $1,000, delivers reliable and stable performance for content creation, AI applications, and CAD, offering a double-digit performance increase in key professional applications compared to competitive cards.
AMD has just announced the AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700, offering an ideal combination of reliability, stability, and extraordinary price/performance for content creation, CAD, and AI applications. Priced at under $1,000, the new card is positioned as the most powerful professional workstation graphics card in that price range (see performance note 1 below).
Designed to meet the evolving demands of professional workflows, including increasingly complex computer-generated designs, the continual growth in the development of visual effects and animations, a global surge in construction, and the explosive growth in advanced AI applications, the new card promises to unleash professionals’ creativity through exceptional performance, stunning visuals and future-ready capabilities.
“We built and optimized the AMD Radeon PRO W7700 graphics cards to create premium workstation graphics experiences, enabling our customers to boost innovation and productivity,” said Dan Wood, corporate vice president, Radeon product management at AMD.
Unleashing Innovation and Creativity
The AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card is ideal for the growing demands of creative industries, including Media & Entertainment, Design & Manufacturing, and Architecture, Engineering & Construction. The 16GB of high-speed VRAM allows 3D artists and video editors to work with higher resolution models and textures and process intricate effects. It also enables data exchange between applications, allowing users to multitask between editing, compositing, and retouching to meet project deadlines.
In addition, with industry-leading support for DisplayPort™ 2.1, video editors will benefit from richer color spaces and the ability to leverage the highest display resolutions available today. The new graphics card also supports the latest codecs with AV1 encode/decode (see performance note 2 below) and AI-enhanced video encode capabilities for lightning-fast video encoding times that streamline and accelerate video production.
Enabling Next-Generation CAD and Design
Built on the high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture, the Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card offers up to 1.7X better price/performance than the competitive offering (see performance note 3 below).
The new graphics card also provides up to 52% higher performance in SOLIDWORKS®, up to 24% higher performance in Creo® and up to 37% higher performance in CATIA™ compared to competitor solutions, empowering architects to bring their visions of hotels, office buildings and other structures to life by enabling them to produce photorealistic renders and immersive walkthroughs (see performance note 4 below). DisplayPort™ 2.1 and the AMD Radiance Display™ Engine technologies also offer stunning resolutions and vibrant color depth for viewing projects on up to four displays.
“The great collaboration between AMD and ACCA continues five years strong,” said Guido Cianciulli, founder and CEO, ACCA Software. “Architectural customers have benefited from the combination of AMD Radeon ProRender in our ACCA Edificius BIM application, thanks to the integration of HIP. We are excited that ACCA Edificius customers will benefit from the new AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series workstation graphics, which provide increased photorealism and improved image rendering power, as well as support for ultra-performance displays.”
AI Acceleration
The Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card enables professionals to build and run AI applications right from their desktops. Featuring hardware-based AI accelerators, the graphics card is designed to accelerate AI workloads in the latest applications, including DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, Topaz Labs Video AI, and many others.
“We are excited about the launch of the Radeon PRO W7700 and how it will help users leverage generative AI and the rest of their creative applications,” said Anush Elangovan, corporate vice president, software development at AMD (formerly Nod.ai). “Nod.ai has built APIs to help creators get the most out of their AI applications. Our SHARK Stable Diffusion REST API plugs into Blender®, enabling creative professionals to leverage the power of generative AI in their familiar 3D tools.”
Key Specs
Pricing and Availability
The AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card is expected to be available November 13, 2023, from leading retailers. Product availability in OEM workstations and SI systems is expected to begin this month. The AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card has an SEP of $999 USD.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics cards here
- The list of AMD Radeon PRO certified applications is available here
Performance Notes:
Note 1 - Up to 39% higher performance is based on the October 2023 AMD Performance Labs on a test system comprised of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX, 64GB, Windows® 11 Pro build 22621, 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ PRO Software23.30 RCP 3 with AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 vs. similarly configured system with Nvidia Driver 536.67 with Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX A4000, RTX A4500 at 3840x2160 display resolution. Benchmark Application: SPECviewperf 2020 V3.1 (Geomean across 3dsmax-07, catia-6, creo-03, energy-03, maya-06, medical-03, snx-04, solidworks-07). Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg.SPEC® and SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results may vary. RPW-447.
Note 2 - Video codec acceleration (including at least the HEVC (H.265), H.264, VP9, and AV1 codecs) is subject to and not operable without inclusion/installation of compatible media players. GD-176
Note 3 - Up to 1.7x higher price performance is based on the October 2023 AMD Performance Labs on a test system comprised of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX, 64GB, Windows® 11 Pro build 22621, 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ PRO Software23.30 RCP 3 with AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 vs. similarly configured system with Nvidia Driver 536.67 with Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada at 3840x2160 display resolution. Benchmark Application: SPECviewperf 2020 V3.1 at 1K (Geomean across 3dsmax-07, catia-6, creo-03, energy-03, maya-06, medical-03, snx-04, solidworks-07) vs the Competitive Price in RPW-448. Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg. SPEC® and SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results may vary. RPW-450.
Note 4 - SOLIDWORKS® - Up to 52% higher performance is based on the October 2023 AMD Performance Labs on a test system comprised of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX, 64GB, Windows® 11 Pro build 22621, 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ PRO Software23.30 RCP 3 with AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 vs. similarly configured system with Nvidia Driver 536.67 with Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX A4000, RTX A4500 at 3840x2160 display resolution. Benchmark Application: SPECapc® for Solidworks® 2022 benchmark. Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg. SPEC® and SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results may vary. RPW-455.
Creo® - Up to 24% higher performance is based on the October 2023 AMD Performance Labs on a test system comprised of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX, 64GB, Windows® 11 Pro build 22621, 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ PRO Software23.30 RCP 3 with AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 vs. similarly configured system with Nvidia Driver 536.67 with Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX A4000, RTX A4500 at 3840x2160 display resolution. Benchmark Application: SPECapc® for Creo 9 benchmark - GPU Composite Score w/o AA. Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg. SPEC® and SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results may vary. RPW-456
CATIA™ - Up to 37% higher performance is based on the October 2023 AMD Performance Labs on a test system comprised of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5945WX, 64GB, Windows® 11 Pro build 22621, 64-bit, AMD Radeon™ PRO Software23.30 RCP 3 with AMD Radeon™ PRO W7700 vs. similarly configured system with Nvidia Driver 536.67 with Nvidia RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX A4000, RTX A4500 at 3840x2160 display resolution. Benchmark Application: SPECviewperf 2020 V3.1 (Geomean across 3dsmax-07, catia-6, creo-03, energy-03, maya-06, medical-03, snx-04, solidworks-07). Additional information about the SPEC benchmarks can be found at www.spec.org/gwpg. SPEC® and SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results may vary. RPW-447.
Source: AMD
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
