AMD Radeon Pro W6800

The AMD Radeon Pro W6800 meets the pace of development in GPUs, which is rapid to say the least, with a new generation coming hot on the heels of the previous one. This latest workstation graphics card has upped the ante in some significant ways, in a bid to dominate the arena.

- Rob Redman

PRICE $2,500 | COMPANY AMD | WEBSITE amd.com

FEATURES

Huge 32GB of onboard memory

New RDNA 2 graphics architecture is much faster

Hardware raytracing

Only offers Mini DisplayPort sockets

SPECS

Ray Accelerators: 60

Compute units: 60

Memory: 32GB EEC

Architecture: RDNA 2

Outputs: 6x Mini DisplayPort

The AMD Radeon Pro W6800 is a very well-specced graphics card with some rather noteworthy attributes. To start with there is a whopping 32GB of memory, more than enough for the large datasets that visual effects artists and visualisers need for their work. This is EEC memory as well, adding a layer of protection for these critical environments. Such a quantity of memory allays any fears users might have of culling texture sizes or worries about geometry density of scenes. Photorealism can often succeed on the details, so knowing the resources are there for dense foliage, sculpted surfaces and impeccable textures really delivers confidence.