AMD announces dual-GPU Radeon Pro V340 with 32GB of HBM2

The big picture Virtualization is tool for enterprises seeking to reduce hardware costs and maintaining the flexibility to reallocate resources at only moment's notice.   AMD's Radeon Pro V340 may be high value product when considering the number of end users it may serve..   V340 contains two Vega chips on the same board intended to accelerate CAD software, rendering, and virtualization..   Touted V340 has 32GB of HBM2 with ECC.   AMD has made it possible for up to 32 virtual machines running to have 1GB of VRAM allocated to each.   Software vendors can use VDI with full support for OpenGL, OpenCL, DirectX, and other APIs.   Dassault Systems Solidworks, PTC Creo, and Siemens NX are some of CAD tools that benefit from GPU virtualization..   AMD has enabled its own MxGPU Technology for GPU virtualization so that high performance cloud computing is possible without having to pay royalties or licensing fees incurred by other solutions...   For those that need improved video encoding performance, two video streams can be compressed to H.264 or H.265 simultaneously on the two virtualized encode engines..   AMD Radeon Pro V340 graphics card will enable our customers to leverage desktop and virtualization for the most demanding applications, said Sheldon D'Paiva, director of Product Marketing at VMware..   Read more