Following the launch of the AMD RX 9070 series, whispers circulated about a potential flagship variant, the RX 9070 XTX, boasting a whopping 32GB of video memory. However, this speculation remained just that—speculation, as the model never saw the light of day. Recently, eagle-eyed netizens stumbled upon an EVT (Engineering Validation Test) prototype development board for the Radeon AI PRO R9700 professional graphics card, which, interestingly, is outfitted with 32GB of video memory.

The Radeon AI PRO R9700 is built upon the Navi 48 GPU, which is part of the RDNA 4 architecture—the same foundation as the RX 9070 XT. What sets it apart is its fully unlocked compute units, totaling 64. This configuration enables it to support a maximum INT4 computing capacity of 1531 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) and an impressive FP16 computing power of 95.7 TFLOP/s (Tera Floating-Point Operations Per Second). Geared towards edge AI acceleration, this graphics card is tailored for high-performance AI application scenarios.

Historically, this particular graphics card was predominantly supplied to workstation manufacturers, making it a rare find for the average consumer to purchase directly. Nevertheless, in a recent turn of events, a netizen managed to acquire a Gigabyte-customized Radeon AI PRO R9700 AI TOP 32G graphics card for $1,220 through retail channels.