AMD Prepares Radeon PRO W7900D GPU for China

AMD appears to have slipped a new professional GPU SKU into a recent driver changelog under the name Radeon PRO W7900D. It is a subtle entry, but it could be AMD's way of slowly introducing a new China-specific workstation GPU. The new suffix suggests a revision of the Navi 31-based W7900 family, making it the third listed W7900 variant after the original W7900 and the later W7900 Dual Slot model. The driver reference went live more than ten days ago. However, AMD has not published a product page, and the W7900D does not appear as a selectable option on the driver download site, nor have any official specifications been provided.

What we do know about the Radeon PRO W7900 series could frame our expectations for this unlisted SKU. Both the W7900 and the W7900 Dual Slot use the Navi 31 die, offer 6,144 SPs, and include 48 GB of GDDR6 ECC memory. The Dual Slot variant arrived with a slimmer cooler and a lower launch price compared with the original W7900. Publicly available figures for those cards list peak FP32 compute around 61 TFLOPS, boost clocks near 2.5 GHz, a 384-bit memory bus running roughly 18 Gbps speeds, and board power in the region of 295 W. The W7900D name has prompted speculation that AMD could be preparing a region-specific variant similar to NVIDIA's China-focused D series, but checks of regional AMD sites have not yielded a confirming product page. We are yet to see how AMD positions this lone SKU, considering it is on the older RDNA 3 uArch, and we are slowly moving into RDNA 5 / UDNA rumors.