Radeon Pro Duo selling for $799, Radeon R9 Fury X close to $299 US

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Thought this article was newsworthy, taken from WCC:

AMD’s flagship graphics card, the Radeon Pro Duo has received a major price cut from AIB partners. The once $1500 US graphics card is now selling for just $799.99 US on various retail sites.

AMD Radeon Pro Duo – The Fiji Behemoth Now Selling For $799.99 US

The price cut is not region specific and the card is on discount in both North American and Asia Pacific regions. The discounts range from 31% and up to 46% which is a major drop from its original price. The card launched in April, 2016. It was regarded as the flagship product in the Radeon lineup and was positioned as a workstation and gaming product.

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AMD Radeon Pro Duo – The Specs of RTG’s Fastest Card To Date

The Radeon Pro Duo featured two full fledged Fiji GPUs. It packed a total of 128 compute units in two GPUs, each of which comprised of 4096 shaders. The total core count of the card was 8192 which is the highest on any GPU to date. Each core features 64 raster operation units and 256 texture mapping units. The GPU core operates at 1000 MHz.

At the rated clock speeds, the card delivers 512 GT/s texture fill rates and 128 GP/s Pixel Fill rates. The card was designed to power 4K gaming and professional content and features AMD’s Liquid VR and FireRender technologies for the best app-level support. This allows the card to deliver 16 TFLOPs of 32-bit single precision compute which is currently the highest any graphics card could offer. AMD’s Vega 10 based Instinct MI25 will pack 12.5 TFLOPs of FP32 compute performance.

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Also Selling Close To $299 US

Aside from the Radeon Pro Duo, the Radeon R9 Fury X graphics card has also received an AIB specific price cut from XFX. The specific model is selling for $308 US which is pretty close to what some custom RX 480’s sell for these days. The Radeon R9 Fury X used to retail for $650 US back when it was launched and still packs a lot of GPU performance.

Copied from http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-pro-duo-799-usd-price-cut/

Seems like they are clearing stock to make room for Vega :)




 

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which is pretty close to what some custom RX 480’s sell for these days. T

You can get custom 480s for under $200 often ;)

PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 480 4GB GDDR5 Video Card $160 after $20 Rebate

XFX Radeon RX 480 4GB $184.99 AR

XFX Radeon RS RX 480 8GB GDDR5 Video Card + Civil. VI PC Game $210 after $20 Rebate

Paying $300 for a 1060 6gb / 480 is waaayy too much.

But yes the Fury's @ $220ish and X @ $300 are amazing bang/buck for their performance @ 1440p or above.
 

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I'd need to adjust my setup to make this card work for me, and that is tempting with this thing at that price.
 

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Awesome looking card, If I wasn't planning a completely new Ryzen/Vega water-cooled rig I'd be on it.
 

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Fury Nitro has been on sale for $220-240 at least once a month for the past six months. I bought mine before the sub $300 pricing but I'm still satisfied and have yet to run into issues at my resolution/refresh. The extra horsepower was just enough of a bump from an old R9 290 to make it worth it for ultrawide 1440p.

My next upgrades will likely be 100Hz+ ultrawide monitor (IPS or VA) with Vega.
 
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At $800 for a single dual Fiji watercooled card, that would be fantastic for compute for folks with the latitude to choose the compute API. Like university, r&d, etc. Definitely seems like a really solid way for a shoestring budget university project to get a lot of raw power.

Toss 4 of those on a single open bench mobo, loads of power for really pretty cheap compared to an equivalent number of xeons or time on the school compute resources.
 
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I'd need to adjust my setup to make this card work for me, and that is tempting with this thing at that price.
Why... You could get 2 fury x for under $300 each last month.
This would need to be 600-700 to replicate the same deal the r9 295 card had
 

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Why... You could get 2 fury x for under $300 each last month.
This would need to be 600-700 to replicate the same deal the r9 295 card had
My particular use-case is such that this card would work for me where 2 F-X's wouldn't. Sorry my particular needs don't align with how you'd spend my money.


Apologies if your tone wasn't actually there... but I just got this weird hostility vibe from it, like I'm an idiot for appreciating this card over a two-card solution.
 
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My particular use-case is such that this card would work for me where 2 F-X's wouldn't. Sorry my particular needs don't align with how you'd spend my money.


Apologies if your tone wasn't actually there... but I just got this weird hostility vibe from it, like I'm an idiot for appreciating this card over a two-card solution.

I never said how I'd spend your money....
I asked "Why".....
You've vaguely answered the question by saying "It's my use case!" and a whole bunch of irrelevant text to a technical discussion forum that you could have spent actually just detailing your use case.

Let us know if you follow through and purchase.
 

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I never said how I'd spend your money....
I asked "Why".....
You've vaguely answered the question by saying "It's my use case!" and a whole bunch of irrelevant text to a technical discussion forum that you could have spent actually just detailing your use case.

Let us know if you follow through and purchase.
Two things:
1) I don't owe anyone an explanation of anything. I just posted an opinion about a product. Lighten up. I didn't exclaim anything. I do believe I responded in kind. And since you didn't acknowledge my disclaimer saying maybe I was misreading your tone, so I guess I was getting it right.

2) My case doesn't easily/nicely handle more than one AIO cooler, so a single card is viable, but more than one is much less so.

It's a Silverstone Fortress (FT-02), so I'm not changing cases as I like it too much in spite of its flaws.

I'll make sure not to follow up explaining my purchases, since I can't imagine anyone honestly cares about my system or experience editing movies and podcasts and playing L4D2 in 2017.
 
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Guys, knock it off. Lets try to get along ok?
 

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Is the Radeon Pro duo just like any other dual GPU card where it has 8GB of VRAM but is limited to only using 4GB?
 

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Is the Radeon Pro duo just like any other dual GPU card where it has 8GB of VRAM but is limited to only using 4GB?

It's the same as running Fury X Crossfire except single board so only 1 slot / AIO cooler. So all pro/cons of CFX apply.
 

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The only reason to even consider this deal is if the buyer is running a mini-ITX setup and has specific needs for the pro-features of the radeon pro duo. Otherwise the GTX 1080 is a better buy in every way for someone needing ultra high end performance.
 

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The only reason to even consider this deal is if the buyer is running a mini-ITX setup and has specific needs for the pro-features of the radeon pro duo. Otherwise the GTX 1080 is a better buy in every way for someone needing ultra high end performance.
Or Freesync.

Just sayin'.
 
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Or you could be like me and be running a Freesync monitor. Which combined with the Fury Nitro leaves me wanting nothing versus a GTX 1070, and for considerably less ($350 less, actually) versus the equivalent Gsync setup.

FP operations suck on the GTX 1070/1080 so for professional use there is no comparison versus the Pro Duo.
 
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I agree that buying on this on the verge of Vega's arrival is probably not a wise purchase, but if this checks all your boxes, then it looks like it would be a fun card to have.
 

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Before you hit the buy button, you might want to ask yourself, why are they selling the entire Fury line so cheap?

edit:
Clearing inventory?
AMD needs something to compete with the gtx1070/1080?
They are hot, overpowered, old technology?
 
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tential

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Before you hit the buy button, you might want to ask yourself, why are they selling them so cheap?
I don't really think anyone is hitting the buy button.(How many Fiji owners do you know? How many Fiji owners do you know that aren't Fury owners?)
Cheap is also a relative term.
 

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Before you hit the buy button, you might want to ask yourself, why are they selling the entire Fury line so cheap?

edit:
Clearing inventory?
AMD needs something to compete with the gtx1070/1080?
They are hot, overpowered, old technology?

clearing inventory, obviously, but none of this really matters. It's a dumb time to buy this type of card, but if someone really wants something at this level right now, this gives them another option. But how is this a 1070 competitor? AMD already has that with Fury, and with Fury X nipping into 1080 territory, no?

This looks to me like a way to grab some attention away from those balking at paying $1200 for a TitanXP
 
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