AMD Silently Launches Radeon AI PRO R9700S and R9600D Featuring a Fully Passive “Fanless” Workstation Design
AMD has quietly expanded its professional GPU portfolio with the introduction of two new RDNA 4 workstation models the Radeon AI PRO R9700S and Radeon AI PRO R9600D. These cards which were previously spotted on AMD’s website have now received full specification listings through their respective product pages on AMD’s official site for the R9700S and the R9600D.
Both GPUs are derivatives of the existing Radeon AI PRO R9700 and are built on the NAVI 48 architecture. However their most striking distinction from the standard model is their completely fanless passive cooling design. AMD has engineered these cards specifically for silent operation a feature increasingly valuable in workstation environments that require noise free thermal solutions.
The R9700S is essentially a passive cooled mirror of the original R9700 with identical specifications across the board. It features:
4096 Stream Processors
Boost clock up to 2920 MHz
32 GB GDDR6 operating at 20 Gbps
256 bit memory interface
300 W TDP rating
47.8 TFLOPS FP32 compute performance
Despite having no active cooling the R9700S retains the full performance envelope of its actively cooled counterpart including the two slot design. This signals that AMD expects its passive heatsink solution to be capable of maintaining thermals in controlled workstation environments where airflow is handled at the system level rather than on the GPU.
Positioned as a more budget friendly workstation accelerator the R9600D features a cut down configuration of the NAVI 48 GPU delivering:
3072 Stream Processors a 25 percent reduction from the R9700 series
Boost clock up to 2020 MHz
24.8 TFLOPS FP32 compute performance
32 GB GDDR6 at 20 Gbps
256 bit bus
150 W TDP
While compute performance is significantly lower than the R9700S the R9600D maintains the same generous 32 GB VRAM capacity making it suitable for memory intensive professional workloads such as AI inferencing visualization or data preparation. The lower TDP also makes this passive design far more thermally manageable.
The absence of any fans marks these GPUs as purpose built solutions for noise sensitive workstation deployments including financial institutions laboratories design studios and rack mounted compute environments. AMD is positioning passive RDNA 4 models as premium silent alternatives that do not sacrifice workstation class memory capacity.
Neither pricing nor retail availability has been announced but both GPUs are expected to appear in enterprise channels soon. Given the specifications the R9700S is poised to serve high end AI and compute workloads while the R9600D brings a more accessible entry point into AMD’s AI PRO lineup.
AMD’s decision to deliver fanless RDNA 4 workstation cards reflects a growing industry demand for silent high density GPU deployments and demonstrates the company’s confidence in NAVI 48’s efficiency and workstation ecosystem cooling.
Do you think more workstation and AI accelerators should adopt passive cooling solutions? Would a silent GPU improve your professional workflow?
