Sapphire Intros Rack-friendly Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Card

[btarunr]

Sapphire introduced its Radeon AI PRO R9700 professional graphics card. Sapphire's take on the PRO R9700 is very similar to a custom design by ASUS, and comes with a design that favors workstation deployments with up to four of these cards installed next to each other. The card is 26.6 cm in length, strictly 2 slots thick, and 11.1 cm tall, or strictly what constitutes "full height," making it fit for 3U rackmount cases. Helping its enterprise chops are a 12V-2x6 power input located at the tail end of the card instead of on the top; and rear bracket mounting holes that help you secure the card to the chassis using expanders.

The card features a lateral airflow blower-based cooling solution. The PCB and cooler shroud has cutouts on the reverse side of the card, where the backplate is recessed, to help adjacent cards better take in airflow. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 targets both professional visualization and edge AI acceleration use-cases. It is based on a maxed out 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon, just like the desktop Radeon RX 9070 XT, but with double the memory size at 32 GB, so it could accelerate larger LLMs. The GPU offers a peak INT4 throughput of 1,531 TOPS, and peak FP16 throughput of 95.7 TFLOP/s.



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[tpa-pr]

How is ROCm on Windows these days? I've got it set up for some basic image/text generation on Linux and it's nice and fast.

 

[eyenix]

How is ROCm on Windows these days? I've got it set up for some basic image/text generation on Linux and it's nice and fast.

On windows is an alpha, but you can test it with ROCm/TheRock repo on Github. The official release will be in q3 2025