News Gigabyte launches AI TOP GPUs — AMD reference-like designs in fancy boxes

[Admin]

Gigabyte has announced the Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G and the Radeon Pro W7800 AI TOP 32G.

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[ThomasKinsley]

Making GPUs more capable handling AI is definitely worth while. RAM is cheap, so we should see eventual 64GB and 128GB cards.

Meanwhile, single monitor support includes 8K at 60 Hz or 12K at 120 Hz.

As an aside, I'm guessing the refresh rates were meant to be reversed on this one.

 

[Notton]

Instead of naming it W7900 Slim, they go with W7900 AI TOPS... ugh
The W7900 launched in 2023-04, and the only thing that changed in configuration is the card height.
It still features the same W7900-48GB, and W7800-32GB RAM configuration

Is more RAM possible with Navi-31? It's the same GPU as 7900XTX (384-bit memory bus), but is (presumably) using a clamshell design to double the capacity from 24GB to 48GB.

I haven't heard of GDDR6 getting denser chips either.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I'm a bit confused by this. I might be wrong but I thought that Radeon Pro was for things like 3D rendering while Radeon Instinct was for AI deep learning with its tremendous raw compute power. At least, that's what I understood was the reason it was chosen for Frontier and El Capitan. So now Radeon Pro is for AI as well? This is getting pretty discombobulated.

 

[mac_angel]

a lot of information, but a lot of stuff missing. How do these "slim" cards measure up to the performance compared to the AMD ones? That would be a pretty big piece of information for people.
On a lesser note, how does that compare to the RX 7900XTX? Yea, that's only a 24GB card, but does it make a difference? Enough for the price to matter where maybe you could install two RX 7900XTX cards for cheaper.

 

[jlake3]

I'm a bit confused by this. I might be wrong but I thought that Radeon Pro was for things like 3D rendering while Radeon Instinct was for AI deep learning with its tremendous raw compute power. At least, that's what I understood was the reason it was chosen for Frontier and El Capitan. So now Radeon Pro is for AI as well? This is getting pretty discombobulated.

Radeon Pro W is for workstations, Radeon Pro V is for virtualized graphics in server environments, Radeon Instinct is for compute. The early Radeon Instinct cards shared die designs with graphics products and could be cross-flashed into a Radeon Pro W (with some issues), but the newer ones have dedicated die designs that ditch some of the architecture necessary for actual graphics output.

Radeon Instinct would be the choice for supercomputing and massive AI projects because it's got the most cores and the most HBM and comes in form factors that let you push the highest density, and the Pro line just doesn't have offerings that scale that high. But if you're operating on a scale and budget that's more in line with the Radeon Pro lineup, then there's no reason you can't run AI on those.

 

[CmdrShepard]

I called it in the other thread -- AI TOP is a naming scheme meant to game the SEO ranking. They should be ashamed for doing it, and everyone buying anything Gigabyte after this should be ashamed as well.