AMD Radeon Pro And What It Means For Gamers

AMD earlier this month announced its latest Radeon Pro Vega edition of the graphics card. While they are assumed to be the next-gen powerful professional graphics cards coming from the side of AMD; these aren't specifically aimed towards gamers. These graphics cards have debuted with Apple's new iMac Pro desktop.

According to several reports published recently, AMD's Radeon Pro Vega both, Frontier Edition and RX Vega edition is going to be powered by Vega 10 GPU. When Vega 10 GPU is compared with others, for instance, Polaris 10/20 chips - it is assumed that RX 480 and RX 580 are essentially based on the same in both the versions. Furthermore, the AMD Radeon Vega Pro packs 256 texture mapping units along with 64 next-gen Vega computing units.

According to a report published by PC Gamer, the front-end of the Radeon Pro Vega packs 64 render output units that comprise of 16 distinct render back-ends. Moreover, the Vega 10 power system is based on an interposer that is further stacked in a 2.5D fashion. All in all, the chip offers 8GB of memory for 16 gigabytes of memory.

The system's single precision floating point lies at 13.1 TFLOPS and double-precision floating point lies at 26.2 TFLOPS. It boasts of a memory bandwidth of 483GBps with display output, display port 1.4, HDMI "4K60." Unfortunately, the company hasn't announced the final core clock speed for the cards. However, on the basis of the teraflop performance and hardware details provided regarding the card, it is safely assumed that the final core speed will float around 1,600MHz.

The gamer fans aren't too sure what this new innovation truly means for them especially after Radeon boss, Raja Koduri announced that this edition does not represent the company's pinnacle of gaming performance. In other words, it does intend to be aimed towards gamers.