AMD's offering has been expanded with a special video card that enhances the Radeon Pro series, that is, it is designed specifically for professional use, and its special feature is that it carries the basics of the Radeon RX 7700 XT, but offers more VRAM and comes in a single-slot design with passive cooling.
The Radeon Pro V710 professional video card is built around the NAVI 32 graphics processor, which can work with 54 active CU blocks, i.e. with 3456 stream units, and also has 54 RT accelerators. The new GPU runs at a 2GHz boost clock and has a maximum single-precision computing power of 27.65 TFLOp/s. While the Radeon RX 7700 XT's memory subsystem is connected to a 192-bit memory data rail, which is accompanied by 12GB of onboard memory, the Radeon Pro V710 can actually have a 224-bit memory data rail with 28GB of GDDR6 VRAM connected. The new professional video card offers a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s, a slight improvement over the usual 432 GB/s of the Radeon RX 7700 XT. The memory subsystem is naturally accompanied by ECC support and 54MB of Infinity cache.
According to AMD's plans, at the moment the new feature can be located only and exclusively in Microsoft Azure servers, through which special services can be provided, for example, through which customers can access remote desktop and workstation configurations in virtual form. But for cloud-based gaming and AI/ML, the product can also be used for other purposes. Designed for Microsoft data centers, the Radeon Pro V710 also has R-IOV support, so the same GPU can serve multiple virtual machines, and these virtual machines can be isolated from each other, so data security is ensured. In this usage mode, the product can only access 24GB of VRAM, not 28GB.
The new video card can operate at a much lower TDP compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT, because while this value was 245 watts for the first, the professional model has only 158 watts on the data board, which means a 35% reduction, accordingly, also decreased GPU clock of 500MHz. This is largely one of the limitations arising from single-slot passive cooling. Otherwise, separately installed fans in the servers will ensure adequate airflow, thus also ensuring that the heat absorbed by passive cooling escapes from the selected rack. An eight-pin PCI Express power connector will also be needed to provide a stable power supply for the new video card.
The Radeon Pro V710 is slated to only be available to Microsoft at the moment, and there's no information yet on whether the product will be commercially available to other partners or business users in the future.
