AMD introduced Radeon PRO W6400 - budget professional graphics card with 6nm chip for $229

AMD has introduced the Radeon PRO W6400 entry-level professional graphics gas pedal. This is the first professional-grade graphics card based on a GPU based on the 6nm process. Recall that the first consumer graphics card based on the new technology was Radeon RX 6500 XT, which was presented at CES 2022.

The Radeon PRO W6400 gas pedal is based on the AMD Navi 24 graphics chip with 768 stream processors. A similar chip is used in the consumer model of the Radeon RX 6400 graphics card, which will be distributed only in off-the-shelf PCs. Performance in FP32 operations at Radeon PRO W6400 announced at 3.54 Tflops, and in operations FP16 & ; 7.07 Tflops. The graphics chip is working at a frequency of up to 2300 MHz.

Radeon PRO W6400 model has 4 GB of GDDR6 memory with 64 bit width, as well as 16 MB of dedicated Infinity Cache memory. The graphics card has a total memory bandwidth of up to 128 GB/s. The new graphics card has a claimed power consumption of 50W. No external power connectors are provided. The graphics card has two DisplayPort 1.4 video outputs.

The card is equipped with a full-length PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, but only supports four PCIe lanes. The same feature has Radeon RX 6500 XT. It does not have AV1 decoder support, but has support for HEVC / H265 codecs. In terms of performance, according to AMD, the novelty is noticeably superior to its counterpart from NVIDIA in the face of T600 gas pedal for $249.

Professional video card Radeon PRO W6400 is priced by AMD at $229;

The first images of AMD Radeon PRO professional graphics card based on RDNA 2 with 16 GB of video memory appeared

One of the users of Chinese forum ChipHell shared photos of engineering sample of AMD Radeon PRO professional graphics gas pedal based on RDNA 2 architecture. It should be noted at once that the insider himself is not yet sure what kind of graphics card model he got. At the same time, he confirmed that the novelty is equipped with 16 GB of video memory.

On one of the stickers located on the back of the video card labeled «Full Secure TT GLXL». According to the resource VideoCardz, previously with marking GLXL in the leaks figure graphics processor Navi 21. However, it is not clear how many stream processors there are specifically in this model of professional graphics gas pedal.

It should also be noted that the video card in the picture is equipped with an updated cooling system with a fan of tangential type. In the fan framing one can see a reference to the design of reference graphics cards Radeon RX 6000-series. Comparison of new Radeon PRO representative PCB with Radeon RX 6000-series reference graphics cards shows some differences with reference models of the latest AMD gaming graphics gas pedals series. For example, the Radeon PRO engineering sample has differently located connectors for additional power supply. At the same time, the capacitors behind the GPU are located almost identically to how they are in Navi 21 GPU-based gaming graphics cards.

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (Navi 21 XT)

AMD Radeon PRO series graphics gas pedals on RDNA 2 architecture have to compete with a series of professional graphics cards NVIDIA RTX Axxx on Ampere architecture. New models of the former Quadro series now offer up to 48 GB of video memory. NVIDIA also plans to release models with 24 and 12 GB of video memory.