AMD creates their Radeon Pro Vega II and Pro Vega II Duo GPUs for Apple's latest Mac

[WYP]

Up to 28.2 TFLOPS of FP32 performance in a single PCB.



Read more about AMD's Radeon Pro Vega II and Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards.

 

[Dicehunter]

Damn that's sexy !

Still a shame AMD didn't make the Radeon 7 with all 4096 SP instead of the 3840 it shipped with.

 

[WYP]

Damn that's sexy !

Still a shame AMD didn't make the Radeon 7 with all 4096 SP instead of the 3840 it shipped with.

AMD basically used a pre-existing SKU to make the Radeon VII. Going for the full core count would mean that they would either offer users 32GB of VRAM or need to make a new SKU with all the cores enabled and 16GB of HBM2.

 

[demonking]

a nice stand for it will only set you back $999 dollars.....
I don't know who in their right mind buys a Mac these days, are they really that much more productive these days when you bring price vs performance?

 

[Giggyolly]

a nice stand for it will only set you back $999 dollars.....
I don't know who in their right mind buys a Mac these days, are they really that much more productive these days when you bring price vs performance?

I thinks it's more to do with people having invested their time to use Mac only software, and don't want to re-learn something else.

I also don't think the PCs are too overpriced, comparisons of the IMac vs self built showed it's fairly reasonable given the parts. But that $1000 stand.. damn!

 

[demonking]

I thinks it's more to do with people having invested their time to use Mac only software, and don't want to re-learn something else.

I also don't think the PCs are too overpriced, comparisons of the IMac vs self built showed it's fairly reasonable given the parts. But that $1000 stand.. damn!

That and snobbery I think are what are keeping these going.
I would love to a comparison of software that runs on both when spending the same on hardware. Like if you bought one of the base models ($5000!!!!) and then spent $5000 on a windows PC and see what the difference actually is though I doubt Apple will be sponsoring anything like that anytime soon haha.

 

[grec]

You can't really compile, debug, deploy, or publish iOS software without a Mac, which drags a lot of pure mobile developers in, since that's about half their market, and they only need one laptop at the end of the day so may as well use one that properly supports all the OS' they need.

 

[Giggyolly]

That and snobbery I think are what are keeping these going.
I would love to a comparison of software that runs on both when spending the same on hardware. Like if you bought one of the base models ($5000!!!!) and then spent $5000 on a windows PC and see what the difference actually is though I doubt Apple will be sponsoring anything like that anytime soon haha.

Yeah, having looked at the specs for the base model, it's very overpriced. like $3,500, $4k tops for the unique design costs.

An equally priced Windows workstation would eat it alive

 

[grec]

Yeah, having looked at the specs for the base model, it's very overpriced. like $3,500, $4k tops for the unique design costs.

An equally priced Windows workstation would eat it alive

It's not THAT overpriced as far as pre-built workstations go, the base spec CPU it uses is $750 alone, add in that OTT motherboard and ECC memory and you're probably already past $1500 just for 3 of its parts.

 

[AlienALX]

It's not over priced. Even though it's honkingly expensive it's not over priced. Find me another one, you can't. Without that datum the whole logic is flawed. Yes you can build a similar PC or Hackintosh but at the end of the day this is one of one.

As for snobbery? rubbish. We all like nice things. We all also want the best we can have. That's not snobbery it's just nice to have. Originally specced as it was per the service tag my Alienware Area 51 ALX (2009 model) would have cost ten grand. I know I've done at least a couple of grand on it myself, if not more. Not because I am greedy or a snob but simply because I like having nice things.

Most see that as working toward something and it being an achievement.

 

[LePhuronn]

It's not over priced. Even though it's honkingly expensive it's not over priced. Find me another one, you can't. Without that datum the whole logic is flawed. Yes you can build a similar PC or Hackintosh but at the end of the day this is one of one.

As for snobbery? rubbish. We all like nice things. We all also want the best we can have. That's not snobbery it's just nice to have. Originally specced as it was per the service tag my Alienware Area 51 ALX (2009 model) would have cost ten grand. I know I've done at least a couple of grand on it myself, if not more. Not because I am greedy or a snob but simply because I like having nice things.

Most see that as working toward something and it being an achievement.

Sorry dude, it is snobbery when it comes to Macs, and uneducated, ill-informed snobbery at that. I've lost count of how many times I've been snubbed, laughed at and outright refused jobs in interviews because I dare suggest that PCs can match Macs for a fraction of the cost, and I'm somehow not a professional because I "don't use a Mac". Yet the second I rock up to an interview or a production meeting with my Macbook Air suddenly it's all good.

It's so ingrained in education too. So many media students came through my previous media production employer to get industry experience and they scoffed because we didn't use Final Cut Pro on a Mac, despite me demonstrating my Adobe Premiere CS5 suites with a Quadro CX absolutely ripped apart their Mac Pros. And then they came crawling back looking to use our kit because the university would rather buy too few systems for their students just because they're Macs (and creative professionals only use Macs, of course) rather than properly spend their budget to equip and support every student by getting equally-performant (or even better) PCs.

I even took my little Asteria round to a friend to help her with some editing. Silverstone SG05 modded to fit the original GTX Titan and ran Adobe Premiere in CUDA mode. Tiny thing the size of a shoebox crushed her £3,000 Macbook Pro "that you need if you're a professional".

It's a joke.