ASRock has added a new professional card to its roster, powered by AMD RDNA 4 graphics architecture. Featuring advanced AI capabilities and a large memory pool, Radeon AI Pro R9700 has everything you need to delve into 3D rendering and medium-sized LLM (Large Language Model) development.
Based on the AMD Navi 48 GPU, Radeon AI Pro R9700 carries 4,096 stream processors spread between 64 compute units, 128 AI accelerators, and 32GB of GDDR6 memory running on a 256-bit bus. Team Red claims that AI Pro R9700 is up to two times faster than Pro W7800 32GB in AI workloads, beating RTX 5080 by up to 496% in large AI models thanks to its higher VRAM capacity. Its 32GB of memory allows optimal operation when running models such as DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B Q6, Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503 Q8, and Flux.1 Schnell.
You can further enhance this performance through multi-GPU configurations where AI Pro R9700 handles scaling up to four cards working in tandem, each packing four DisplayPort 2.1a video outputs. This result is a massive 128GB memory pool, allowing support for massive models such as Mistral Large Instruct 123B and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B, which respectively require up to 116GB and 112GB of VRAM.
Knowing this, ASRock went with a space-efficient dual-slot blower-cooler, slightly customised to fit its Creator lineup. Styling aside, the Creator’s 271mm x 111mm x 39mm dimensions are just enough to fit multiple cards side by side inside a workstation, but ASRock had the inspired idea to displace the fan slightly to provide a small opening for air intake. On the inside, this cooler manages the heat from Navi 48 using a vapour chamber, with a Honeywell PTM7950 thermal interface sitting in between.
Like its competitors, ASRock went with 2,350MHz game clock and up to 2,920MHz boost clock on the GPU, with memory at 20Gb/s. These are probably AMD’s official recommendations. However, even though the card is rated for 300W TBP, ASRock chose the 12V-2×6 power connector to feed it instead of two 8-pin. Personally, I don’t mind this on a professional card, especially as it would reduce the cable mess on multi-GPU setups.
Currently, there’s no official pricing for Radeon AI Pro R9700, but it is expected to replace Pro W7800 at $2,499. We should be fixed soon as the launch is set for July.
