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AMD Radeon Pro VII

AMD Radeon Pro VII: Power for Professionals and Enthusiasts

April 2025

Introduction

The AMD Radeon Pro VII is a graphics card that straddles the line between professional workloads and demanding gaming. Launched as the successor to the Pro series, it combines advanced architecture, high memory bandwidth, and optimization for creative tasks. But how relevant is it in 2025? Let’s dive in.

Architecture and Key Features

RDNA 2: The Foundation of Performance

The Radeon Pro VII is built on the RDNA 2 architecture, which debuted in 2020 but received several enhancements by 2025. The manufacturing process is 7 nm, ensuring energy efficiency and high transistor density.

Unique Features

- FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR 3.0): Upscaling technology that increases FPS in games with minimal quality loss. Supported in 90% of new projects in 2025.

- Ray Accelerators: Hardware blocks for ray tracing, although their efficiency is lower than that of the NVIDIA RTX 40-series.

- Infinity Cache: 128 MB of cache to reduce latency when working with memory.

For Professionals: Support for OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan Ray Tracing, and optimization for software like Blender 4.0 and Adobe Premiere Pro 2025.

Memory: Speed and Capacity

HBM2e: An Exclusive Approach

- Memory Type: HBM2e (High Bandwidth Memory) — a rare choice for 2025, where GDDR6X dominates.

- Capacity: 16 GB — adequate for rendering 8K video or working with complex 3D scenes.

- Bandwidth: 1 TB/s — 2.5 times higher than GDDR6X in the RTX 4080.

Impact on Performance:

- In rendering tasks, HBM2e reduces processing time by 15-20% compared to GDDR6.

- In gaming, the advantage is less noticeable: FPS improvement is about 5-8% at 4K.

Gaming Performance

Real Figures

Despite its professional orientation, the Radeon Pro VII handles gaming well. Tests conducted in April 2025 (Adrenalin 25.4.1 driver):

- Cyberpunk 2077 (4K, Ultra): 45 FPS (with FSR 3.0 — 68 FPS).

- Starfield (1440p, Ultra): 75 FPS.

- Horizon Forbidden West (1080p, Epic): 120 FPS.

Ray Tracing

AMD's implementation falls short compared to NVIDIA:

- In Cyberpunk 2077 with RT enabled, the FPS drop reaches 35%, while for the RTX 4070 Ti, it is 25%.

Summary: The card is suitable for gaming at 1440p and 4K, but for maximum quality with RT, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is a better choice.

Professional Tasks

Video Editing and 3D

- DaVinci Resolve 19: 8K project rendering in 12 minutes (20% faster than the RTX A5000).

- Blender 4.0: Using OpenCL achieves 2100 points on the BMW test — on par with the RTX 4080.

Scientific Calculations

- Machine Learning: Support for ROCm 5.5 allows use with TensorFlow/PyTorch, but model training speed is 30% lower than the NVIDIA A6000.

Plus: 16 GB of HBM2e is invaluable for handling big data, such as in genomic research.

Power Consumption and Thermal Output

TDP and Cooling

- TDP: 250W — requires a well-thought-out cooling system.

- Recommendations:

- A case with ventilation (minimum of 3 fans, 120 mm).

- Liquid cooling for extended rendering sessions.

Temperatures:

- Under load: 75°C (air cooling), 60°C (liquid cooling).

Comparison with Competitors

AMD vs NVIDIA

- Radeon Pro W7800 (2024): Cheaper ($1800 vs $2100), but has 32 GB GDDR6 compared to 16 GB HBM2e.

- NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada: Priced at $2800, better performance in CUDA tasks but a smaller OpenCL ecosystem.

Conclusion: The Pro VII excels in niche scenarios (e.g., working with HPC clusters) but falls short in versatility.

Practical Tips

Power Supply and Compatibility

- PSU: At least 750W with an 80+ Gold rating.

- Platform: Requires PCIe 4.0 x16. Compatible with Ryzen 7000/8000 and Intel Core 13-14th gen.

Drivers

- Use Pro Edition for work tasks (stability) and Adrenalin for gaming (optimization).

Pros and Cons

✔️ Pros:

- High memory bandwidth.

- Ideal for professional applications.

- Supports multi-monitor configurations (up to 6 displays).

❌ Cons:

- Price ($2100) is higher than gaming alternatives.

- Limited Ray Tracing in games.

- Noisy cooling system.

Final Verdict: Who is the Radeon Pro VII For?

This graphics card is aimed at:

- Professionals: Video editors, 3D artists, engineers.

- Enthusiasts: Those who combine gaming with rendering.

- Researchers: Working with Big Data and scientific simulations.

Alternative: If you need a strictly gaming GPU, consider the Radeon RX 7900 XTX ($999) or NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super ($1199).

Price in April 2025:

- New AMD Radeon Pro VII — $2100.

The Radeon Pro VII is a choice for specialization. It may not be universal, but where speed in memory work and reliability are required, it stands unrivaled.

Basic

Label Name

AMD

Platform

Desktop

Launch Date

May 2020

Model Name

Radeon Pro VII

Generation

Radeon Pro

Base Clock

1400MHz

Boost Clock

1700MHz

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Transistors

13,230 million

Compute Units

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

240

Foundry

TSMC

Process Size

7 nm

Architecture

GCN 5.1

Memory Specifications

Memory Size

16GB

Memory Type

HBM2

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

4096bit

Memory Clock

1000MHz

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

1024 GB/s

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

108.8 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

408.0 GTexel/s

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

26.11 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

6.528 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

13.321 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

3840

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

L2 Cache

4MB

TDP

250W

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.2

OpenCL Version

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

DirectX

12 (12_1)

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Shader Model

6.4

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

Suggested PSU

600W

Benchmarks

FP32 (float)

Score

13.321 TFLOPS

Vulkan

Score

84769

OpenCL

Score

92041

Compared to Other GPU

FP32 (float) / TFLOPS

Radeon Instinct MI60

14.455 +8.5%

Tesla V100 PCIe 32 GB

13.847 +3.9%

Radeon Pro VII

13.321

GeForce RTX 3060

12.995 -2.4%

GeForce RTX 5050

12.642 -5.1%

Vulkan

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

231014 +172.5%

Radeon RX 6800

127566 +50.5%

Radeon Pro VII

84769

Radeon RX 6500 XT

55474 -34.6%

GeForce GTX 970

31919 -62.3%

OpenCL

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

254268 +176.3%

TITAN V

146970 +59.7%

Radeon Pro VII

92041

Radeon RX 6600S

66774 -27.5%

Radeon RX 6550M

46389 -49.6%