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AMD releases Polaris based Radeon Pro 500

by on06 June 2017


Workstation graphics 

AMD has announced a new family of workstation-targeted graphics processors based around its Polaris set up.

Dubbed the Radeon Pro 500 series, it is already being flogged to the Fruity Cargo Cult Apple for its updated iMac all-in-one systems and MacBook Pro laptops

AMD said that the Radeon Pro 580, which is the top end model, has 5.5 trillion floating-point operations per second (T/FLOPS) of compute performance in a thermal envelope AMD claims is perfectly suited to the iMac's slim all-in-one design.

Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect of the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, said it was satisfying to see the capabilities of Radeon Pro 500 series in elegant form factors and enabling "amazing" content creation, gaming and VR experiences,.

The Radeon Pro 500 Series graphics are enabling new generations of makers with compute-accelerated creative tools and new APIs, bringing their imaginations to life in ways like never before, he enthused.

The Radeon Pro 500 series starts with the Radeon Pro 555, with its 12 compute units and 768 stream processors, 81GB/s of memory bandwidth, and offers a 1.3 T/FLOPS peak performance.

Next up the ladder is the Radeon Pro 560 with 16 compute units for 1,024 stream processors and up to 1.9 T/FLOPS of compute.

The Radeon Pro 570 has 28 compute units with 1,792 total stream processors and boosted 217GB/s memory bandwidth for 3.6 T/FLOPS.

The Radeon Pro 575 has 32 compute units for 2,048 stream processors and 4.5 T/FLOPS peak performance.

Then there is the Radeon Pro 580 with 36 compute units for 2,304 stream processors and a peak performance of 5.5 T/FLOPS.

No word on price yet.

Last modified on 06 June 2017
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