AMD Announces Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Card

[btarunr]

AMD at Computex 2025 announced the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card. This card is being launched to cover a wide range of use-cases from professional visualization to AI acceleration at the edge. The card is a beefed up variant of the desktop Radeon RX 9070 XT, and maxes out the 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon, enabling all 64 compute units, for a total of 128 AI accelerators. It also gets 32 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory across the chip's 256-bit wide memory interface for 640 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The card is rated for a total board power of 300 W. At its given specs, AMD claims up to 96 TFLOPs of FP16 throughput, and up to 1,531 AI TOPS (INT4 sparse).

The 32 GB of memory should come in handy for larger AI models, AMD claims, as it illustrates its performance against an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 with its 16 GB of memory—this could also hint at the target pricing of this card. The card supports driver-level scalability for up to 4 such GPUs, for a memory pool of 128 GB, leveraging the interface level features offered by PCIe Gen 5. The 128 GB memory pool should prove sufficient for Mistral Large Instruct (123 billion parameters with GPTQ4), and DeepSeek R1 Distill (Llama 70 billion parameters, FP8), both of which have memory footprints ranging between 112 GB to 116 GB. Much like the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 "Shimada Peak" workstation processors being announced today, the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 should be available in July 2025.



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[LabRat 891]

Any suggestions as to pricing? I've been hoping this would be closer to the W7700's MSRP, than W7900.

We all know every (AMD-friendly) gamer is gonna want this card (whether they need it or not).
AMD'd be fools if they aren't expecting record demand for an otherwise 'professional' SKU.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Any suggestions as to pricing? I've been hoping this would be closer to the W7700's MSRP, than W7900.

We all know every (AMD-friendly) gamer is gonna want this card (whether they need it or not).
AMD'd be fools if they aren't expecting record demand for an otherwise 'professional' SKU.

Given the AI demand probably 12-1500 would be my guess.

It will be interesting.

 

[Hyderz]

ngl when i saw the headline i got 2002 flashbacks... of the mighty ati card

 

[LabRat 891]

Given the AI demand probably 12-1500 would be my guess.

It will be interesting.

$1000-1200 would still be quite attractive next to unobtainable 5080s and unreleased 5080 24GB, etc. Not sure If I could stomach a full doubling of price for double the VRAM.

ngl when i saw the headline i got 2002 flashbacks... of the mighty ati card

TBQH, (whether purposeful or incidental) I'm really digging the throwback

I'll be referring to this card as the "AMD Radeon 9700 Pro", henceforth

 

[Fouquin]

You soil the great name of the Radeon 9700 with this AI Slop. Shame on you and your descendants. SHAME

 

[oxrufiioxo]

$1000-1200 would still be quite attractive next to unobtainable 5080s and unreleased 5080 24GB, etc. Not sure If I could stomach a full doubling of price for double the VRAM.

I think if this was the 9700XTX then sure we could see a 1000 usd price point but the 9700XT is selling decently at 8-900 usd here in the states already so 50% above that sounds about right me.

 

[Fouquin]

I think if this was the 9700XTX then sure we could see a 1000 usd price point but the 9700XT is selling decently at 8-900 usd here in the states already so 50% above that sounds about right me.

Reminder that there is no '9700 XT'. It's 9070 XT, which AMD made VERY CLEAR was a naming convention change designed and implemented deliberately to align with the competition. So here we are, a few months later, and they've now mixed it up entirely by going backward again.

The Radeon team never misses a chance to fuck up their own brand recognition with inconsistent SKU naming, confusing literally everyone including their own customers.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Reminder that there is no '9700 XT'. It's 9070 XT, which AMD made VERY CLEAR was a naming convention change designed and implemented deliberately to align with the competition. So here we are, a few months later, and they've now mixed it up entirely by going backward again.

The Radeon team never misses a chance to fuck up their own brand recognition with inconsistent SKU naming, confusing literally everyone including their own customers.

Good catch 9070 XTX lol.... knowing AMD it would he the 9080 XT though.

 

[Dr. Dro]

The Radeon team never misses a chance to fuck up their own brand recognition with inconsistent SKU naming, confusing literally everyone including their own customers.

Ah, my friend. You have no idea the restraint it's taking for me to not simulate some of the readership's reactions if it was me writing that.

Any suggestions as to pricing? I've been hoping this would be closer to the W7700's MSRP, than W7900.

We all know every (AMD-friendly) gamer is gonna want this card (whether they need it or not).
AMD'd be fools if they aren't expecting record demand for an otherwise 'professional' SKU.

I've mentioned before that pricing would make or break this product, and their decision to brand it as an AI product indicates that they intend on setting a relatively high price. In reality, with this performance level, this graphics card can't cost more than $1499, accounting for the costs associated with the pro drivers and exclusive feature set, because performance-wise, it's not going to hold up.

The RTX 5090 is going to knock all of its teeth out if both are put side by side in any LLM benchmark.

 

[kondamin]

In real life 256 bit cards are midrange and cost 400usd.

 

[Chomiq]

In real life 256 bit cards are midrange and cost 400usd.

Sure buddy:

 

[ToTTenTranz]

Any suggestions as to pricing? I've been hoping this would be closer to the W7700's MSRP, than W7900.

I'm hoping the slide comparing it to the RTX 5080 is a good indicator.

 

[R-T-B]

In real life 256 bit cards are midrange and cost 400usd.

Was real life a few gens back? Cause those days are gone man.

 

[kondamin]

Was real life a few gens back? Cause those days are gone man.

You know that scene from the wrath of Kahn where Kirk shouts "kahn"
Viva la dirt league should make that about video cards screaming Jensen.

 

[R-T-B]

You know that scene from the wrath of Kahn where Kirk shouts "kahn"
Viva la dirt league should make that about video cards screaming Jensen.

It's not just Jensen, no one is pricing like that anymore except maybe Intel, and that won't hold for long.

 

[JustBenching]

So this is basically a 9070xt with more vram? The name is a bit confusing.

Given the AI demand probably 12-1500 would be my guess.

It will be interesting.

Nah, 8gb vram only costs 15$, so this will be 30$ more than the normal 9070xt

 

[igormp]

This would be a nice product at the right price, but given the price the 9070xt currently goes for, and all the issues ROCm still has, I guess that Intel dual GPU product will be a better buy for inference.

 

[LabRat 891]

So this is basically a 9070xt with more vram? The name is a bit confusing.

It's not supposed to be confusing; it's an entirely different product line.
As far as AMD Marketing is concerned, gamers aren't supposed to even know that AMD's Radeon Pro lineup exists.
I'm wrong. AMD knows gamers want this card.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1925312187532267888

"Radeon AI PRO" is also more-inline w/ the preceeding Radeon PRO W and WX branding.
("Radeon Instinct" moved to Compute-only CDNA after the MI60/Radeon VII)


Update:
Other sources are claiming AIBs will be selling R9700s, too.
Supposedly:

• ASUS
• ASRock
• Gigabyte
• PowerColor
• Sapphire
• XFX
• Yeston

So far, only Gigabyte has listed an AIB model of the R9700

Radeon™ AI PRO R9700 AI TOP 32G Key Features | Graphics Card - GIGABYTE U.S.A.

Discover AORUS premium graphics cards, ft. WINDFORCE cooling, RGB lighting, PCB protection, and VR friendly features for the best gaming and VR experience!

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[kondamin]

It's not just Jensen, no one is pricing like that anymore except maybe Intel, and that won't hold for long.

It is just Jensen, nvidia could still be making 30xx chips at Samsung to supply the midrange in this massively overheated market.
Except they don’t, they do everything in their power to limit supply so they can charge what ever they please

 

[R-T-B]

It is just Jensen, nvidia could still be making 30xx chips at Samsung to supply the midrange in this massively overheated market.
Except they don’t, they do everything in their power to limit supply so they can charge what ever they please

So could AMD by your logic? Supply the midrange I mean.

tbh, one day gamers are going to have to accept the fact that all ANYONE gives them anymore is some sort of afterslop from AI and compute. And everyone is doing it. This isn't in the "gamers" power to change, as they aren't the big spenders anymore.

 

[kondamin]

So could AMD by your logic? Supply the midrange I mean.

tbh, one day gamers are going to have to accept the fact that all ANYONE gives them anymore is some sort of afterslop from AI and compute. And everyone is doing it. This isn't in the "gamers" power to change, as they aren't the big spenders anymore.

Sure hundreds of billions is a more interesting market than billions, but it’s really odd those billions are left under served.

 

[Hecate91]

So could AMD by your logic? Supply the midrange I mean.

tbh, one day gamers are going to have to accept the fact that all ANYONE gives them anymore is some sort of afterslop from AI and compute. And everyone is doing it. This isn't in the "gamers" power to change, as they aren't the big spenders anymore.

Would there be any point for AMD to? They only have about 10% of the market, and even when AMD does provide better value, gamers keep on paying more for Nvidia.
And while everyone is leaving the scraps to the gaming market, AMD has been much less egregious about it with making an effort to provide cards to the gaming market in a more affordable price range.
Nvidia has a lot more power to serve the mid range market than AMD does, but Nvidia has proven they don't care about the gaming market at all.

 

[snapdragon]

DOA, just as the predecessors.

 

[JustBenching]

Would there be any point for AMD to? They only have about 10% of the market, and even when AMD does provide better value, gamers keep on paying more for Nvidia.
And while everyone is leaving the scraps to the gaming market, AMD has been much less egregious about it with making an effort to provide cards to the gaming market in a more affordable price range.
Nvidia has a lot more power to serve the mid range market than AMD does, but Nvidia has proven they don't care about the gaming market at all.

If you ignore the fact that the cheapest cards currently - with the best performance /$ - and the cheapest cards with more than 8gb are all nvidia, yes, amd is less egregious

DOA, just as the predecessors.

It's not DOA, but the price needs to be - well , normal. 16gb of ram cost like 30-40$, if they decide to upcharge 300-500$ for it, oh well, it's called greediness.