A Reddit user bought a Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card in the retail channel for $1,220. This card was believed to be unavailable in retail, and restricted to the OEM and SI channels, meant to be sold by workstation builders. The card in question is a GIGABYTE Radeon AI PRO R9700 AI TOP, a custom-design board by the company that features a rack-friendly lateral airflow cooling solution that's build in GIGABYTE's distinct silver color scheme the company uses with its AI TOP branded graphics cards, notebooks, mini PCs, and motherboards.

The Radeon AI PRO R9700 is intended by AMD to be an edge AI accelerator, combining the AI acceleration capabilities of the RDNA 4 architecture, with 32 GB of memory, for accelerating AI models with larger parameter counts. It's based on the same 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon as the Radeon RX 9070 XT gaming GPU, which it maxes out, enabling all 64 compute units present on the silicon. The GPU offers a peak INT4 throughput of 1,531 TOPS, and peak FP16 throughput of 95.7 TFLOP/s. GIGABYTE includes access to its in-house AI TOP utility with this card.