AMD Radeon Pro Duo Preview: Dual Fiji Unleashed

Name: Radeon Pro Duo
Brand: Radeon

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 09:01 AM EDT

We are not going to dwell on these performance numbers because they were provide by AMD and we haven’t been able to independently test a Radeon Pro Duo on our own just yet. We do, however, believe many of you will be interested in seeing where the card should fall in terms of performance, so we’re presenting these AMD-provided benchmark results strictly as a rough guideline on performance expectations...

AMD is calling the Radeon Pro Duo “the world’s fastest graphics card”. And that should be true under the right conditions. Since the card is powered by dual GPUs, applications will have to be able to leverage both of the GPUs properly to achieve peak performance. As we’ve seen many times in the past, however, things don’t always scale or work properly on multi-GPU setups. In situations where the Radeon Pro Duo’s dual-GPUs aren’t fully leveraged, the card will perform like a single-GPU powered Radeon R9 Nano.

In Steam’s VR benchmark, AMD is claiming the Radeon Pro Duo can pin the meter and achieve the maximum score of 11.

In Blackmagic Davinci Resolve 12 and Autodesk 3DS MAX AMD is claiming big performance improvements thanks to the Radeon Pro Duo’s pair of GPUs.

The Radeon Pro Duo reportedly outperforms a pair of GeForce GTX Titan X cards in SLI when running Ashes Of The Singularity in DX12 mode as well, thanks to the game’s built-in support for asynchronous shader technology.

And with games that scale properly with CrossFire, AMD is claiming performance leadership at 4K as well.

We should reiterate, however, that these numbers were provided by AMD.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, VR, (nyse:amd), fiji, radeon pro duo, radeon nano

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com