AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32 GB GPU Listed Online, Pricing Expected Around $1250, Half The Price of NVIDIA’s RTX PRO “Blackwell” With 24 GB VRAM
The first AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPUs, packing 32 GB of memory for AI workloads, have been listed online with prices over $1000 US.
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU Gets Listed For Around $1250 US, Half The Price of NVIDIA’s Most Entry-Level RTX PRO “Blackwell” GPU With 24 GB Memory
At Computex, AMD unveiled its latest workstation GPU, the Radeon AI R9700, specifically designed to meet the rising AI demands. Featuring the same, and full-fat Navi 48 GPU which we saw on the Radeon RX 9070 XT, the graphics card came with one major upgrade, and that was its 32 GB VRAM, double that of the 9070 XT. The large VRAM was designed to meet the requirements of the most popular LLMs, which typically scale between 16-28 GB. With 32 GB, AMD is ensuring that the Radeon AI PRO R9700 has all that it would take to run these models efficiently.
Although the card has been announced since May 2025, there have been few to no details on the pricing said except the fact that AMD itself mentioned that the perf/$ of the Radeon AI PRO R9700 would be very good against the competition.
It looks like we finally have an update on the pricing side, and it does look highly competitive. To start, the retailer, Tech-America (via Melodic Warrior @ X), has listed three variants of the Radeon AI PRO R9700. One of these is from ASRock, while two are from Sapphire (essentially the same model). The cards have been listed between $1244 $1277 US, which means that we can expect a price between $1200-$1250 US if these preliminary listings hold.
The reason we also believe that this is going to be a highly competitive product is because when we compare the price to the competition’s most entry-level product, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 looks too good. For example, the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 “Blackwell” GPU is listed for $2499 US, and packs 24 GB VRAM. It uses the same GPU as the RTX 5070 Ti but with a cut-down 192-bit bus. The RTX PRO series does have GDDR7 memory versus AMD’s GDDR6, but VRAM capacity is more important for AI workloads, and AMD has a win.
NVIDIA’s 32 GB offering, the RTX PRO 4500 “Blackwell” GPU retails for $3799 US, and would be 3 times more expensive than the Radeon AI PRO R9700. It does have the same GPU as the RTX 5080. As for the overall performance, AMD’s AI / ROCm stack is being upgraded too, so we can see some very decent AI figures. NVIDIA still holds the edge in compute capabilities with its Blackwell architecture, but AMD has a solid chance to hit NVIDIA’s 24 GB and 32 GB offerings. AMD also recently shared some additional test results for its Radeon AI PRO R9700, which you can check out here.
The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 launches this month, so we are going to be looking at a competitive landscape in the workstation AI segment. Now, it’s up to Intel to hurry up and launch its B60/B50 Arc PRO GPUs, as those also hold a chance to compete in the perf/$ segment.
News Source: MelodicWarrior
