AMD Pumps Up Workstation Graphics Lineup With Radeon Pro W7600, W7500 Cards

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AMD’s ready to roll out the newest graphics cards in its Radeon Pro product line, this time targeting entry-level-to-midrange and small form-factor desktop workstations. The new Radeon Pro W7600 and Radeon Pro W7500 are designed to produce speedy performance inside a compact single-slot package. These cards are also relatively budget-friendly, retailing for $429 and $599 respectively, making them highly competitive in price with Nvidia's base-level RTX A Series GPUs for workstations.

At the heart of both the Radeon Pro W7600 and Radeon Pro W7500 lies an AMD Navi 33 GPU core, which is the same core used inside the AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card. This core contains 2,048 streaming processors, 32 Ray Accelerators, and 64 AI Accelerators. The Radeon Pro W7600 has access to the full core and all of these resources, but the W7500 has a partially disabled core that leaves it with just 1,792 streaming processors, 28 Ray Accelerators, and 56 AI Accelerators.

All of these GPUs connect to 8GB of GDDR6 memory over a 128-bit memory interface, but the Radeon Pro W7500 is handicapped here too, as it uses slower memory.

Though the Radeon Pro W7600 should be clearly the faster of these two new cards, both GPUs have clear merits that make them both equally appealing. The Radeon Pro W7500 makes up for its smaller core count with a lower 70-watt power draw, which means it does not require supplemental power from a PCIe cable. This makes it an alluring option for space- or- power-constrained systems.

You will need additional power for a Radeon Pro W7600, as it's rated to consume 130W, but if your system can support this, it’s likely well worth the trade-off. The higher core count and greater memory bandwidth should result in a significant