MP 7,1 AMD Radeon Pro VII

[jtgil]

As promised, attached you see my new Vega VII workstation makeover with blue accents this time. (My dual tray is in storage at the moment)

Since I had many different GPUs in this thing I am used to the Vega VII level of performance or higher. What really really surprised me is the low noise duct fan. The reference Vega 64 / 56 back in the day was really a very bad designed and noisy card. Because of this I was very sceptical. However, since the 6800XT is not supported in the Sonoma, I sold my trusted mutant card and fell back to my 580 with AIO water block. But this time AMD surprised me full heartedly. The Radeon Pro Vega VII is very calm and the duct fan is not very noisy. I think that is the most important and surprising information. Big kudos to AMD Pro Series, they really did their homework when it comes to noisy duct fan solutions. Another surprise was the weight of that card and the fact that it's shroud is metal. It is really next level when it comes to AMD build quality. The hefty 1899,00 Dollar price tag did go somewhere.
Just for kicks, you will find my past RX 580 AIO setup attached as well.


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Wow, I would have never thought to see the day someone would do what I did back in 2020 and putting a sweet Pro VII into a 5,1.

I think I only found 2 people by 2023 that had done this but they hadn’t shared a lot of info on setup or performance, for that matter I had not either.

I also did it mid gpu-inflation, but even if I managed to pay AMD retail price which was lowest among resellers and other shops it was still 2k😭

I will post pictures of my setup later when I get back home.

Kudos to you friend, Pro VII is a hell of a card on our ageing beasts even in 2024-2025.

Super quiet and performant in everything I need from CAD, FEA, CFD, gaming, graphics works and so on.👌🏻

Edit: if anyone needs info or specs on this setup feel free to ask.

 

[mikas]

Answering your call a whopping 4 years later, I am delighted to report my upcoming project. About A week ago, I was able to snatch a brand new sealed in box Radeon Pro VII workstation card for 300 bucks. I did sent it to my friends in Poland to get it flashed with boot screens and modified device ID for a perfect fit for my 2012 Mac Pro 5.1.
More to come with a short performance review towards the end of October.

Waiting eagerly for your benchmarks.

I've got one too now as of today. I just put it in my Lenovo P710 monster (2xE5-2696v4, 44C/88T), and it seems to work fine and is indeed quiet too.

It's just that Cinebench 2024 fails to render with this Pro VII GPU. Just says "render failed", GPU is seen by CB2024 allright, and it tries to use HIP, but it don't even start before fail. No crash though.

Just wondering if CB2024 and Radeon Pro VII runs on a Mac? And with what results? Maybe @jtgil

 

[mikas]

I had in my thoughts to get two Pro-VII's and an infinity fabric link, and to get 32GB of GPU render RAM. I guess that was an afterthought or a surreal belief, and as such, realistically something of a not-gonna-happen-ever-thing.

 

[AlexMaximus]

I had in my thoughts to get two Pro-VII's and an infinity fabric link, and to get 32GB of GPU render RAM. I guess that was an afterthought or a surreal belief, and as such, realistically something of a not-gonna-happen-ever-thing.

As promised, attached you will find the screenshots from Heaven Benchmark that I took from 2019, 2023 and today in 2024. I used to have the regular Vega VII with the Alu shroud, the Alienware two slot 6800XT and now the Vega Pro VII card, which is the slowest and less noisiest of the bunch.
I sold my Alienware 6800XT card because my PS cramped out after a year of usage. So I figured, for the long run a less hungry card would be great, so I did go for the Pro Version this time. A real nice treat and a good middle of the road solution compared to the other mutant cards. All cards have been flashed by my friends in Poland and had a mac rom, including my current Pro card.

 

[jtgil]

Waiting eagerly for your benchmarks.

I've got one too now as of today. I just put it in my Lenovo P710 monster (2xE5-2696v4, 44C/88T), and it seems to work fine and is indeed quiet too.

It's just that Cinebench 2024 fails to render with this Pro VII GPU. Just says "render failed", GPU is seen by CB2024 allright, and it tries to use HIP, but it don't even start before fail. No crash though.

Just wondering if CB2024 and Radeon Pro VII runs on a Mac? And with what results? Maybe @jtgil

Hi mikas and Alex,

Apologies on the lack of contact. I will upload pictures of setup and will try to answer l your questions tomorrow.

But to answer in a more general manner my Mac pro 5,1 with the VII pro works perfectly in both Mac and windows.
-192gb ram dual cpu on the tray
-I run OC for max OS and hardware compatibility and performance.
-VII is not flashed.

Cinebench last I remember it worked fine, but I have not tried the cb2024. Will test it tomorrow too.

To the best of my knowledge, the dual VII pro with fabric link is feasible on the Mac Pro but you will be tied to windows only. It was something I wanted to do too (but never materialized lol)

If you guys have any more questions, I’m happy to answer.

 

[shijan]

Will Pro VII work on Mojave 10.14.6 same as regular VII? I seems like in supported GPUs list but status "Unverified" https://dortania.github.io/GPU-Buyers-Guide/modern-gpus/amd-gpu.html#vega-20-series

 

[mikas]

Thanks AlexMaximus and jtgil for your replys.

I managed to get CB2024 to run, but it predicted dismal results first, and then it hang after just under a minute of the 10 min test.

LuxMark gave me what I excpected, a little bit under the Radeon VII, in the ballbarks of 43000 pts. VII is like 50000 pts.

I'll go and run furmark next for some stress testing.

It's just that my software (ArchiCAD) uses cinerender internally (which CB2024 is based on too), with Redshift nowadays if you want to use it. It's kind of dissappointing it won't run the CB2024. So maybe I'll just go and test ArchiCAD to see what's happening with the card. Need to install the software package first.