AMD earlier today launched the Radeon AI Pro R9700, a graphics card that covers a wide range of professional-visualization and AI inferencing workloads. This is a maxed out "Navi 48" RDNA 4 silicon with 32 GB of memory, enterprise validation, and board design that favors builds with up to four such cards for a 128 GB memory pool taking advantage of the PCI-Express Gen 5 host interface. Unlike NVIDIA, and much like Intel, AMD made this product board partner-driven, letting them come up with custom designs. Gigabyte's card is nicely slotted in the company's AI TOP ecosystem.

The card comes with a 2-slot lateral airflow cooling solution that makes it easy for workstation builders to install up to four of these next to each other on a server/workstation motherboard. The lateral blower takes in air from both sides of the card, and the obverse side is a little recessed to minimize obstruction to the neighboring card. Also adding convenience to workstation builders is the card's 300 W-rated 16-pin 12V-2x6 power connector that's located at the tail end of the card. Also in the Gigabyte booth is the X870E AORUS Master X3D Ice.