AMD launches passively-cooled Radeon Pro V710 GPU with 28GB VRAM targeting professional workloads and efficiency.

AMD has introduced the Radeon Pro V710, an enterprise-grade GPU designed for cloud computing workloads including Desktop-as-a-Service, Workstation-as-a-Service, cloud gaming, and AI/machine learning applications. The V710 will be an Azure cloud exclusive, at least initially, with Microsoft's cloud customers able to provision between one-sixth and a full instance of the GPU, with up to 24GB of its 28GB GDDR6 video memory available to them.

The V710 is powered by AMD's RDNA 3 architecture and uses the same Navi 32 GPU found in the Radeon RX 7700 XT gaming graphics card, packing 54 compute units. AMD states it boasts "outstanding ray tracing performance relative to AMD RDNA 2." However, the V710 distinguishes itself from its gaming counterpart with 28GB of GDDR6 memory (up from 12GB), memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s, a reduced 500MHz GPU clock speed, and a lower 158W TDP suited to data center thermal constraints.

The Pro V710 features a compact single-slot form factor and is passively cooled, making it unsuitable for desktop use and exclusive to Azure data centers. It will be integrated within instances of the NV v710 v5, powered by the AMD Epyc 9374F processor. The card supports modern video codecs including AV1, HEVC, and AVC for cloud gaming streams, and includes dedicated AI accelerators with support for AMD's open-source ROCm software stack to accelerate machine learning workloads.

AMD's introduction of the V710 reflects its strategic shift toward the data center market over consumer graphics. The company is increasingly focusing on mainstream GPU offerings rather than top-of-the-line products, ceding the upper echelon to Nvidia. AMD has also indicated it may unify its Radeon gaming and Pro lineups where it makes sense going forward.