AMD's latest workstation graphics card, the Radeon Pro WX series.
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AMD fires back at Nvidia with workstation graphics chip for pro designers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its new Radeon Pro WX series of graphics cards for professional workstation users. The move came hours after graphics chip rival Nvidia revealed what it called the “world’s fastest GPU” (graphics processing unit) for workstations.

AMD’s new chips are based on its newly launched Polaris graphics chip architecture, and they’re targeted at 10 million artists, designers, and engineers. The company announced the pro graphics cards at the Siggraph graphics technology conference in Anaheim, Calif.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.