Radeon Pro Duo MSRP cut by 50%

[davebean]

This dual Fiji card $$$ was just cut n half.. used to MSRP at $1,500.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16814150768&cm_sp=

Perhaps in anticipation of Vega card?

Dave

 

[flyinmac]

Or because nobody is paying $1500 on a card to stick in their computer.

 

[Daniel Reed]

Tempting, but the power draw is YUGE

May be better off w/ multiple RX 480s for OpenCL compute.

I'm testing dual RX 480 working w/ D700s on nMP.
Super excited by the potential to run 128 compute units off a 12-core for an 8K narrative film post project.
(for OpenCL compute performance the 2GByte/sec bandwidth on TB2 has a 0~3% reduction vs TB3)

 

[theitsage]

Won't work. Get two R9 Fury X and run them with an external PSU.

 

[Daniel Reed]

Won't work. Get two R9 Fury X and run them with an external PSU.

Was your note in reply to my post or in general to the thread?
Thanks

 

[theitsage]

Was your note in reply to my post or in general to the thread?
Thanks

It was in general. macOS doesn't recognize GPU with dual chip setup. 2 R9 Fury X GPUs is the equivalent to the Pro Duo and will work as long as you can supply enough juice.

 

[Daniel Reed]

It was in general. macOS doesn't recognize GPU with dual chip setup. 2 R9 Fury X GPUs is the equivalent to the Pro Duo and will work as long as you can supply enough juice.

Thanks for clarifying.

While the automate-eGPU.sh script Goalque updated a few days ago does appear to provide full access to all 36 compute units on the RX 480, I suspect we'll see better performance when 10.12.4 is released w/ native Ellesmere support vs running Polaris 10 using the Polaris 11(Baffin) drivers currently baked into macOS.