Radeon Pro Duo

Really, really wanted to like this card, but...The PROs...Cosmetically, it's a handsome looking card in a stately, blockish, and rather plain looking blue and black metal casing ---- I prefer its looks to all of the nonsensical glowing and flashing LED frenzy provided by so many other graphics cards ---- I don't need the name of a graphics card lit up while it sits inside of a computer case where I'm not going to be looking at it.Feature wise, the combination of two GPUs, each with it's own 16GB of video memory for a total of 32GB just screams "value" at you, especially given the $900 to $1000 price.The CONs...This card all too easily becomes insanely hot!!! Just give it enough to do, and especially something involving both GPUs, and within a mere minute or two, the all-metal outer casing on this card will become so hot that you actually cannot touch it. In fact, I found this thing became so hot that I considered whether I should put it by itself in one of those external GPU boxes linked by Thunderbolt 3, because I was afraid of it cooking chips underneath it on the motherboard and cooking other cards in neighboring slots.I decided I wanted to at least quantify this issue by getting a temperature read from it, but for some reason, AMD's "Radeon Pro" driver software does not seem to include any way to provide any information about the card's temperature ---- I poked all around the menus looking for something that will tell me something about the condition of the card, but there was nothing. ---- WHY IS THAT?I have worked before with Nvidia Quadro and Tesla series cards, and their software lets you see all kinds of details about how their cards are doing... usage level, actual lane-width and type of PCIe slots, operating temperature, etc. In other words, I don't need to go hunting on the Internet for some other software to find out the operating temperature of Nvidia's professional level cards ---- and that's the way it should be! For the amount of money charged for such "professional" cards, I expect every last piece of software that I am going to need to be provided by the card's manufacturer WITH THE CARD, or at least incorporated into the driver package, even if it must be downloaded.Anyway, after hunting down and installing third party utilities, I finally got an indication of the temperature of the two GPUs on one of these cards (I bought two of them), and both GPUs were closing in on over 80 degrees Celsius! Also, it was impossible to not notice that the fan NEVER, EVER speeds up ---- it stays at its steady, slow, silent speed the entire time ---- no matter how high the temperature gets. ---- WHY IS THAT?It is clear that heat generated inside is being trapped inside (thanks to the ineffective cooling that is provided) to the point that the nice stately blue and black case starts radiating lots of heat from every external metal surface ---- becoming hot enough to make crispy brown toast with it. I also discovered that what little air that does flow out through the rear bracket of this card gets so hot that it cooks the cable connectors on my DisplayPort cables to the point that I can't touch them, either.THIS IS NUTS! ---- THIS IS CRAZY! ---- This is supposed to be a card for professionals to use to design and edit things. It is supposed to be a card you can put into a proper rendering or video editing workstation ---- like normal, off-the-shelf business-oriented Xeon-based workstation computers sold by Dell or HP. But frankly, I'm not sure I want to put either of the two of these cards that I bought into any such normal computer.Motherboards often have Southbridge and/or I/O chips positioned just in front of the PCIe/PCI slots, which puts those chips right underneath such long graphics cards ---- because of the heat issues, I have real concerns that these chips will get cooked to the point of failure, and the motherboard of a workstation-class computer is an expensive thing to replace! So, I have not dared to put either of these two cards into a regular computer system, and certainly not with the lid closed.Further, it is now clear that one of the GPUs on one of these two cards has burned up itself and/or its memory enough that it has become flaky.NOTES TO AMD...1) At a bare minimum, it appears this card has some sort of problem where it takes absolutely no action to keep from becoming insanely hot ---- surely, the fan should spin faster when the temperature goes up? Or maybe there should be some other action taken, such as reducing clock frequencies or something? Presuming it's possible, how about fixing this in your driver software?2) Maybe trying to put 2 GPUs and 32GB into a fully enclosed all-metal casing with just a single blower fan is just going too far no matter what the fan speed is ---- maybe this card needs the kind of open-frame, multiple-fan cooling design you used on the actively cooled versions of the dual-Tahiti Firepro S10000 ---- or maybe this card needs the kind of liquid cooling solution you used on the earlier dual-Fiji version of the Radeon Pro Duo.I really, really wanted to like this card, but I have to say DO NOT BUY ---- at least not until something is done about this problem!

Tons of memory and decent clocks for a professional card.However, the secondary GPU on mine refused to run anywhere close to the clock of the primary, maxing out at 400Mhz for some reason. Not sure why; and I received 0 response from AMD on the matter.

I have had none of the problems that the others reviews report. I liked the PRO DUO so much I bought two. I have an AMD Ryzen 9 with 24 threads, 64GB of memory and 64GB of video RAM. Davinci Resolve has been able to use all my hardware for the last several versions and it does so with ease. Not many applications (even bench-marking software) can use multiple GPU's any more, but Neat Video and Resolve do an amazing job.

Poor planning again by AMD, if they'd have waited and just released this card or naming it something different to not confuse buyers who planed to watercool it only to find out the EKWB are for the 8GB version.