AMD Radeon Pro 5000 Series GPU Enhances Graphical Performance of New 27-inch iMacs

August 6, 2020 0 By Reyjon Oregas

AMD’s newest graphics processors, the Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs, will be available for the updated 27-inch iMacs. These new GPUs power a wide variety of graphically intensive applications and workloads, unleashing creativity and productivity for consumer and professional users alike.

The new AMD Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs are built on industry-leading 7nm process technology and advanced AMD RDNA graphics architecture. They feature up to 40 compute units and up to 16GB of high-speed GDDR6 memory while delivering up to 7.6 teraflops of single precision (FP32) computational performance.

“AMD Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs bring new levels of performance and flexibility to the updated 27-inch iMac,” said Scott Herkelman, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit at AMD. “The new AMD GPUs offer the optimal combination of compute performance, energy efficiency and outstanding graphics features to power a wide range of applications – from consumer to pro – wherever graphics matter the most.”

Key capabilities and features of AMD Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs include:

o Exceptional compute performance – Up to 7.6 TFLOPS of single-precision (FP32) floating point performance.

o GDDR6 memory – Up to 16GB of GDDR6 memory with 384 GB/s bandwidth provides ultra-fast transfer speeds to power data-intensive pro applications.

o AMD RDNA architecture – AMD RDNA architecture was designed from the ground up for superior performance and power efficiency. It is built on industry-leading 7nm FinFET process technology, providing up to 1.5X higher performance per watt compared to the previous-generation graphics architecture.

AMD Radeon Pro 5000 series GPUs

Compute Units

Stream Processors

FP32 TFLOPS

GDDR6
Memory

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT

40

2560

Up to 7.6

16GB

AMD Radeon Pro 5700

36

2304

Up to 6.2

8GB

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

24

1536

Up to 5.3

8GB

AMD Radeon Pro 5300

20

1280

Up to 4.2

4GB

Pricing and availability:
The new 27-inch iMac is available for orders today and will have a price tag that will start at S$2,599. Updated versions of the 21.6-inch iMac and iMac Pro will also be available to order today with prices starting at S$1,598 and S$7,188, respectively.