Posted on Tuesday, June 06 2017 @ 13:55 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AMD is rebranding a bunch of GPUs for Apple as the company just announced the Radeon Pro 500 series for the upcoming iMac. The main specifications are listed below, more isn't available.
Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) unveiled the high-performance, power-efficient Radeon™ Pro 500 series graphics, fueling beyond-UHD creativity in All-In-One computing. Available in the updated 21.5- and 27-inch iMac, Radeon Pro 500 series graphics enable extraordinary computing experiences, including stunning gaming, immersive VR on select models*, and fluid content creation with exceptional performance and support for GPU acceleration across a range of creative applications on the Mac platform, such as Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop® and the Foundry Nuke, Mari and Modo. Moreover, Radeon Pro 500 series provides accelerated performance for the Radeon™ ProRender photorealistic ray-tracing rendering technology which is enabled for Autodesk® Maya®, and Maxon's Cinema 4D.
Radeon Pro 500 series graphics harness up to 5.5 TFLOPS of performance, unleashing the creativity of artists, designers, photographers, filmmakers, visualizers and engineers, and aspiring creative types across high-resolution canvases in the most popular creative applications, powering through the most demanding games, and bringing fantastic worlds to life in VR. The Radeon Pro 500 series makes use of the critically-acclaimed "Polaris" GPU architecture, delivering the perfect balance of performance and operating efficiency that makes them ideal for All-In-Ones.
"It is incredibly satisfying to see the capabilities of Radeon Pro 500 series in elegant form factors and enabling amazing content creation, gaming and VR experiences," said Raja Koduri, senior vice president and chief architect, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD. "Radeon Pro 500 Series graphics are enabling new generations of makers with compute-accelerated creative tools and new APIs, bringing their imaginations to life in ways like never before."
In addition to Radeon Pro 500 series, AMD also announced today that is closely collaborating with Maxon to bring Radeon ProRender photorealistic ray-tracing rendering technology over to Apple's Metal API, integrating it into Cinema 4D for superior performance. In a first-ever demonstration of the technology at WWDC on June 5, Radeon Pro graphics and Radeon ProRender on Metal combine to deliver stunningly fast renders. Radeon ProRender using Metal is expected to be integrated into Cinema 4D within the R19 release cycle.
*Available on the Radeon™ Pro 580.
