AMD has posted a video on its YouTube channel that is currently unlisted. According to the rumors, the video teases something big and points towards the Radeon Pro GPUs. AMD is due to reveal its Radeon Pro GPU based on Navi 21 called the Radeon W6800 and W6900X sometime soon.
According to the currently known information, the AMD Radeon Pro GPU’s announcement seems to be scheduled for June 8 and seems to confirm older leaks about the existence of the W6800 series. The teaser confirms the blue color scheme and the fact that it will have 6 display ports as connections only.
Currently, only hints about the W6900X were spotted in the source code of Mac and there have been no other leaks about the W6900X Pro GPU. The leaks have been limited to W6800 so it is unclear if we are looking at a full lineup or just W6800 for now.
The following changelog leaked the existence of AMD’s RDNA2 based PRO workstation GPU series earlier.
New Features in macOS Big Sur 11.4 Beta
You can now use graphics cards based on the AMD Navi RDNA2 architecture (6800, 6800XT and 6900XT). (73709953)
A picture of the AMD Radeon Pro GPU was also posted on Chinese Tech forums Chiphell.
Image Credit: Chiphell
There have also been some leaks of the performance although these were conducted on non-final drivers so they will not be representative of final performance of the graphics card. The Radeon RX 6000 series gaming graphics cards also have far better driver optimization than the currently unreleased Radeon Pro W6000 cards.
The Radeon Pro W6800 does end up faster than the Navi 21 based Radeon RX 6800. The Radeon Pro W6800 offers twice the memory size of its gaming siblings at up to 32 GB of VRAM. We will have to wait to see what AMD brings to the table with its Radeon Pro series of graphics cards.
