Radeon AI Pro R9700: Like an RX 9070 XT with 32 GB of memory
The Radeon RX 9070 XT gets a sister model for workstations. The Radeon AI Pro R9700 has twice as much memory as the gaming graphics card.
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AMD presents the first workstation graphics card in the 9000 series. Included: a revised naming scheme, which of course includes a nod to artificial intelligence. The newcomer is called Radeon AI Pro R9700 and is technically closely related to the Radeon RX 9700 XT gaming graphics card.
Both use the same Navi-48 GPU with RDNA4 architecture at similar clock frequencies. However, AMD has given the Radeon AI Pro R9700 twice as much memory – it uses 32 GB instead of 16 GB.
Such an increase in memory has always been common for workstation graphics cards. And also because AI models benefit from more memory, the graphics card is now called Radeon AI. In a presentation, AMD mentions small AI models from Mistral (Small 3.1 24B) and DeepSeek (R1 Distill Qwen 32B), for example, which fit into the memory. Much more memory is required for larger models, which is why AMD is advertising 4-unit systems with 128 GB. But that's not all, the computing units of the RDNA4 architecture are also significantly more flexible and more powerful in terms of AI than their predecessors.
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Nominally, the Radeon AI Pro R9700 with its 4096 shader cores achieves around 47.8 teraflops in FP32 data format, 95.7 at FP16, 766 TOPS at INT8 and 1531 TOPS at INT4. However, to achieve such high values, the GPU must be able to run at its maximum boost clock frequency of a good 2.9 GHz. The "game clock", which is more realistic on average, is just under 2.4 GHz.
In addition, the GPU can only achieve this throughput if two identical computing operations are required at the same time. A so-called compute unit consisting of 64 shaders can then process both operations simultaneously (dual-issue). If this is not the case, the above values are halved.
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Meanwhile, AMD has its own reference design for the Radeon AI Pro R9700, which occupies two slots and uses a radial fan. With a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 300 watts, this cooling solution is likely to be somewhat louder. Partner manufacturers are allowed to sell their own variants. Gigabyte has already presented one that emphasizes the AI focus in two ways: Radeon AI Pro R9700 AI Top.
AMD's reference model should be available from July. The manufacturer has not yet commented on the price. If you want more memory, you will have to go for AMD's Radeon Pro W7900 (48 GB) (starting from 3239 €) from the last generation or an Nvidia graphics card.
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