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2x500=1300
£300 for the absolute-zero supercooler sandwiched in the middle.2x500=1300
But weve got boxes of old chips that we cant shift...
Erm ok lets combine 2 on one card double the price so the nerds think theyve got something exclusive and we get rid of twice as many chips as we would have before...
They are getting something exclusive - the most powerful graphics card on the market. It won't hold that title for too long (although I'd be surprised if NVidia's GP100 will be able to match it for compute work) but that's the nature of such things. And the ability to use AMD's professional FirePro drivers means £1300 is a very, very good price if you consider it as a workstation card; there's no other pro card out there that can match the Pro Duo's performance, for any amount of money.Erm ok lets combine 2 on one card double the price so the nerds think theyve got something exclusive and we get rid of twice as many chips as we would have before...
They are getting something exclusive - the most powerful graphics card on the market. It won't hold that title for too long (although I'd be surprised if NVidia's GP100 will be able to match it for compute work) but that's the nature of such things. And the ability to use AMD's professional FirePro drivers means £1300 is a very, very good price if you consider it as a workstation card; there's no other pro card out there that can match the Pro Duo's performance, for any amount of money.
(oh and to anyone from AMD who reads this: including a non-functional GPU is a top idea, make these available to buy separately and I'd certainly pony up for one)