According to Videocardz, AMD is planning a slimmer version of its top workstation card Radeon W7900 for the near future. The new Radeon PRO W7900 is to be designed especially for AI workloads. The source of the leak is Hoang Anh Phu, who has previously correctly ‘predicted’ several AMD products. He now claims that the Radeon PRO W7900 is based on the largest available Navi 31 GPU, just like its (longer available) namesake www.slashcam.de/artikel/Ratgeber/Welche-Grafikkarte-fuer-eine-KI-Video-Workstation--Nvidia-RTX4090-oder-Radeon-Pro-W7900---alles-.html#AMDRadeonProW7900 - but now in a new, slimmer design with a dual-slot cooler.
By switching to a slim dual-slot design, several W7900s can be used in parallel in workstations without leaving PCI slots unused - as these are usually designed for 2-slot spacing. However, the new card is primarily intended to be used for artificial intelligence, which in principle would also be possible with the consumer cards of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series. After all, they are based on the same Navi 31 GPU and George Hotz shows with his Tiny Box that it is possible to achieve good results in principle.
The AMD Radeon PRO W7900 from July with dual-slot design
However, the W7900 seems to us to be somewhat unfortunately positioned by AMD, as at around 4,000 dollars/euros it is not yet significantly cheaper than a comparable AI card from Nvidia (A6000). However, if AMD could double the current memory size of 48 GB GDDR6 memory to 96 GB, the entire AI scene would probably sit up and take notice. This is because a single AI card with this much memory would be extremely exciting for training and inferencing large models - and still costs a small fortune at Nvidia.
According to Hoang, AMD will present the new Radeon PRO W7900 AI Edition at Computex and launch it on the market next month. By the way, the card should of course work well with Premiere and Resolve.