While gamers the world over clamour for news of a new generation of graphics cards from Nvidia or AMD, the two big GPU makers seem more interested in hoovering up dollars from the enterprise space instead. Using it as a proving ground for their next-generation technologies, both companies have been showing off new, server-grade graphics cards in recent weeks and AMD continues that trend with the Radeon Pro V340.
Not officially announced, but teased through a slide leak, the V340 is quite a hefty bit of kit -- certainly more than the average gamer would require. It packs 32GB of HBM2, which is a ridiculous amount of memory -- eight times that of the Fury and Fury X cards of a couple of years prior -- but when it's a card designed to speed up video and CGI rendering, as well as handle multi-user environments (up to 32 of them at once) that configuration makes a little more sense.
What we don't know though, is what GPU it's based on. Videocardz offers some speculation, suggesting it could be a dual Vega 10 configuration. That's something that is expected to act as a mid-way upgrade option for AMD fans before its 7nm and Navi cards show up in the next year or so. If AMD has indeed made it possible to get dual GPUs on a single board at closer to mid-range prices, AMD would have a real winner on its hand, especially considering Nvidia's apparent disinterest in catering to gamers just yet.
Still, this is all guesswork at this time. It's just good to see AMD continuing to stay relevant, helping to push the envelope, which in turn should keep Nvidia on its toes.
