AMD announces dual-GPU Radeon Pro V340 with 32GB of HBM2

[Greg S]

The big picture: Virtualization is a powerful tool for enterprises seeking to reduce hardware costs but maintaining the flexibility to reallocate resources at only a moment's notice. AMD's Radeon Pro V340 may be a high value product when considering the vast number of end users it may serve.

Dual GPU solutions live on as AMD shares details on their Radeon Pro V340 graphics card. The V340 contains two Vega chips on the same board intended to accelerate CAD software, rendering, and virtualization.

Touted as the first Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hardware solution, the V340 has 32GB of HBM2 memory with ECC. AMD has made it possible for up to 32 virtual machines running to have 1GB of VRAM allocated to each. Each single Vega GPU can support up to 16 concurrent users.

Software vendors can use VDI with full support for OpenGL, OpenCL, DirectX, and other APIs. Dassault Systems Solidworks, PTC Creo, and Siemens NX are some of the first CAD tools that significantly benefit from true GPU virtualization.

AMD has enabled its own MxGPU Technology for GPU virtualization so that high performance cloud computing is possible without having to pay royalties or licensing fees incurred by other solutions.

For those that need improved video encoding performance, two video streams can be compressed to H.264 or H.265 simultaneously on the two virtualized encode engines.

The Radeon Pro V340 also emphasizes security. Secure boot and encrypted storage abilities ensure that organizations of all sizes keep their data in the right hands. Virtual machines are isolated from one another by hardware to prevent data leaks.

Industry leaders in virtualization technologies such as VMware and Citrix are already on board with AMD's new offering. "The AMD Radeon Pro V340 graphics card will enable our customers to securely leverage desktop and application virtualization for the most graphically demanding applications,” said Sheldon D’Paiva, director of Product Marketing at VMware.

AMD's Radeon Pro V340 will be available beginning during Q4 2018.

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[Uncle Al]

Can't wait to see what this baby is going to demand ($$) to save us all from lower quality cards (that are now becoming reachable in price) .......

 

[Puiu]

Can't wait to see what this baby is going to demand ($$) to save us all from lower quality cards (that are now becoming reachable in price) .......

It will definitely be very expensive.

 

[psycros]

Can't wait to see what this baby is going to demand ($$) to save us all from lower quality cards (that are now becoming reachable in price) .......

Since cards like this really aren't meant for gaming they don't directly influence the prices of consumer-grade gaming hardware. Those who've been waiting for price drops before upgrading their CAD/PS cards will be the real beneficiaries.

 

[texasrattler]

This isn't even for consumers, it's for company's that use workstations. It's not even for gaming so not sure why it gets a article or at least mention in the title it's for workstations/enterprise, not meant for consumer or gaming, something that makes it more than just a clickbait.

 

[JaredTheDragon]

... It's not even for gaming so not sure why it gets a article or at least mention in the title it's for workstations/enterprise, not meant for consumer or gaming, something that makes it more than just a clickbait.

I believe this website is called "Techspot", not "GamingSpot".

This thing looks pretty cool! It would definitely accelerate Viewport 2 performance in Maya to obscene levels. Currently, VP2 caps out on framerate after a hundred million polys at best, unless you're on a Titan or a new Quadro. This thing could probably handle a billion or so, given the memory and throughput.

 

[texasrattler]

I believe this website is called "Techspot", not "GamingSpot".

This thing looks pretty cool! It would definitely accelerate Viewport 2 performance in Maya to obscene levels. Currently, VP2 caps out on framerate after a hundred million polys at best, unless you're on a Titan or a new Quadro. This thing could probably handle a billion or so, given the memory and throughput.

I only stated the gaming as someone else had already mentioned it, also this site also caters to a lot of gamers in case you didn't know that. So yes gaming is a big deal here.
The title still should have mentioned what it was really for cause I guarantee some thought AMD was coming out with a new dual gaming gpu. Simply putting for workstations or something would have been better than what it says now.

The article itself is fine, just the title imo could have been better.

 

[Gggg0]

I believe this website is called "Techspot", not "GamingSpot".

This thing looks pretty cool! It would definitely accelerate Viewport 2 performance in Maya to obscene levels. Currently, VP2 caps out on framerate after a hundred million polys at best, unless you're on a Titan or a new Quadro. This thing could probably handle a billion or so, given the memory and throughput.

I only stated the gaming as someone else had already mentioned it, also this site also caters to a lot of gamers in case you didn't know that. So yes gaming is a big deal here.
The title still should have mentioned what it was really for cause I guarantee some thought AMD was coming out with a new dual gaming gpu. Simply putting for workstations or something would have been better than what it says now.

The article itself is fine, just the title imo could have been better.

Or people could choose to not be *****s and stop assuming every piece of hardware ever released is targeted at "gamers". Do you want to add the "for workstations" tag to news about new Areca controllers, TPM modules, and YubiKeys, too? If people can figure out that those aren't for gaming, they can damn well figure out VDI isn't for gaming. And if they can't, there's no point catering to them. "If you make it foolproof, the universe will just make a better fool."

 

[pcnthuziast]

Probably 5 figures. All I do of interest on my pc is play games, but I do find hardware very fascinating and exciting. I can only imagine the workloads a card like that can handle in the hands of software engineers able to leverage all that compute power. The specs are juicy af and the fact that so much power didn't require a physically bigger package than the standard foot long double slot that we've seen for so many years.

 

[Hammayon]

But can it run Crysis?

lol

 

[Danny101]

Radeon Pro has been a workstation nomenclature for some time now. It was still interesting how it would be serving multiple users similar to how Linux works. There's also this hype about cloud gaming where all the juice is held by the cloud machines and not on the end user's and this would be a case study albeit a different use to that cause.