New AMD Radeon PRO W7700 - the fastest sub-$1000 pro graphics card yet?

AMD reckons that its new AMD Radeon PRO W7700 is the most powerful professional workstation graphics card you can get under $1000.

The new AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card is built on the high-performance, energy-efficient AMD RDNA 3 architecture, and AMD claims it offers up to 1.7X better price/performance than the competitive offerings.

It features 16GB of high-speed VRAM allows 3D artists and video editors to work with higher resolution models and textures and process intricate effects. It also enables data exchange between applications, allowing users to multitask between editing, compositing, and retouching to meet project deadlines. 

It features support for DisplayPort 2.1, meaning that editors should benefit from richer color spaces and the ability to leverage the highest display resolutions available today. It also supports the latest codecs with AV1 encode/decode and AI-enhanced video encode capabilities for lightning-fast video encoding times that streamline and accelerate video production.

Benchmarks supplied by AMD are impressive and promise up to 21% faster editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, 9% faster compositing in Adobe After Effects, and 26% faster editing in Davinci Resolve compared to competitor solutions that tend to be on the wrong side of that $1000 barrier.

It also features hardware-based AI accelerators designed to accelerate AI workloads in the latest applications, including DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, Topaz Labs Video AI, and a growing number of others. 

The AMD Radeon PRO W7700 workstation graphics card is available from leading etailers/retailers as of now for $999. Product availability in OEM workstations and SI systems is expected to begin this month too.