New workstation models based on RDNA3 and RDNA4 architectures
Purpose not yet entirely clear.
AMD Radeon PRO W7900D has lower specs
AMD has officially luanched a new Radeon PRO W7900D workstation card that mirrors the original W7900 in almost every key spec but with a lower boost clock. The D variant keeps the Navi 31 GPU with 96 compute units and 6144 stream processors. It also retains 48 GB of GDDR6 on a 384 bit bus, which provides 864 GB/s of bandwidth, matching the standard W7900.
The change is in frequency, where the boost clock drops from around 2500 MHz on W7900 to 2156 MHz, which in turn reduces peak FP32 compute from about 61.4 TFLOPS to roughly 54 TFLOPS. Based on Linux driver entries and early reporting, the Radeon PRO W7900D sits alongside the existing Radeon PRO W7000 family and is expected to target OEM workstations and markets that need trimmed performance per card, including China focused configurations shaped by export rules for AI hardware.
Source: AMD
Radeon AI PRO R9700S and R9600D
The W7900D isn’t the only new model being introduced this week. AMD has updated its Linux drivers, which apparently reveal support for new SKUs called AI PRO R9600D. A closer look at the driver section also confirms the PRO R9700S, but it is not listed in the driver highlights.
Given the name of the W7900D and the fact that it is only listed in China, it is safe to assume that the R9600D is a China-exclusive model for now. AMD has not released the PRO R9600 yet, so perhaps it will have a limited launch in China first, and we will soon hear about a global version as well.
Source: AMD
The R9700S is difficult to guess right now because AMD did not use such a naming schema for desktop GPUs. They did, however, for mobile GPUs. However, this also seems unlikely because RDNA4 was never used in mobile form.
Source: AMD
Even of those SKUs are limited to certain regions, it is still strange that AMD has not mentioned this launch in any press release or product update. We are only learning about this thanks to some data miners.
Source: AMD (9600D) , AMD (7900D) via KOMACHI-ENSAKA
