AMD’s most powerful RDNA 4 workstation GPU, the Radeon AI PRO R9700, is finally hitting retail shelves after weeks of scarcity.
First unveiled at Computex and launched at the end of last month, this professional-grade card is now appearing through multiple board partners-though not as reference units sold directly by AMD, but rather in partner packaging that still sticks closely to AMD’s own design.
One Reddit user from the LocalLLAMA community recently shared their new GIGABYTE Radeon AI PRO R9700, which arrived with a blower-style cooler and Turbo Fan-almost identical to AMD’s reference render. While listed at $1220, taxes and shipping brought the total to $1324. Around the same time, ASRock’s Creator edition, also featuring a blower-style design and Creator branding, surfaced on Newegg for $1329.
Both cards are essentially AMD’s reference design under different branding, contrary to the belief that these were entirely custom AIB designs. The R9700 is priced between $1200 and $1300 at launch, which is roughly double the cost of the fastest RDNA 4 gaming card, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. While both share the same 4096 Stream Processors, 128 ROPs, 20 Gbps GDDR6 on a 256-bit interface, and similar TDP, the R9700 doubles VRAM to 32 GB and adds ECC memory support-making it more suitable for AI workloads and professional productivity tasks, especially under Linux.
With partners like ASRock, ASUS, Sapphire, and XFX already preparing their own takes on the R9700 (likely all based on AMD’s reference layout), availability is set to improve. Just don’t expect major visual or cooling differences-at least for now.