AMD Launches Its Most Powerful Graphics Card

AMD has just launched the AMD Radeon Pro Duo a very powerful graphics card that boasts two GPUs and will cost you $1499. The AMD Radeon Pro Duo was first announced back in March, with the card is being marketed for VR content creation first and foremost.

AMD claims the Radeon Pro Duo is 1.5x faster than Nvidia's current high-end GPU, the GTX Titan X.

	*AMD Radeon Pro Duo*	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Stream Processors	2 x 4096	2 x 2816
Texture Units	2 x 256	2 x 176
ROPs	2 x 64	2 x 64
Boost Clock	1000MHz	1018MHz
Memory Clock	1Gbps HBM	5Gbps GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	2 x 4096-bit	2 x 512-bit
VRAM	2 x 4GB	2 x 4GB
FP64	1/16	1/8
TrueAudio	Y	Y
Transistor Count	2 x 8.9B	2 x 6.2B
Typical Board Power	350W	500W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Architecture	GCN 1.2	GCN 1.1
GPU	Fiji	Hawaii
Launch Price	$1499	$1499

Up to 16 TFLOPS of compute performance are coming out from AMD's dual-Fiji GPU implementation, which includes an elegant water-cooled package.

The card features three full sized DisplayPort connectors and one full-size HDMI port. On the side of the card there are three 8-pin PCIe power connectors which will do more than an adequate job of supplying the rated 350W power draw.

The Radeon Pro Duo is available globally beginning today from select system builders and AIBs, and has a suggested price of $1499.