AMD has made a strategic push into the AI market with several key announcements at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, positioning itself as a stronger competitor to NVIDIA in the rapidly growing AI hardware space.
At the center of AMD's AI strategy is the expansion of its ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) platform, which will now support the Radeon RX 9000 series and the new Radeon AI PRO graphics products. This software expansion represents a significant shift, as AMD is finally bringing ROCm support to Windows in addition to Linux. According to Andrej Zdravkovic, SVP and CSO at AMD, every new architecture moving forward will have day-one ROCm support, with Windows compatibility for popular AI frameworks like PyTorch expected in Q3 2025 and ONNX Runtime Execution Provider arriving as early as July 2025.
The company's new flagship professional AI product, the Radeon AI PRO R9700, features 32GB of GDDR6 memory, 128 AI accelerators, and PCIe 5.0 support. Built on the RDNA 4 architecture with second-generation AI accelerators, it delivers up to 2x the throughput of the previous generation. The card is specifically designed for local AI inference, model fine-tuning, and complex creative workloads, with AMD claiming it can be up to 5x faster than NVIDIA's RTX 5080 in certain large AI models. The R9700 also scales effectively in multi-GPU configurations, expanding memory and compute capacity for large models and parallel tasks.
Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics Group, emphasized that these announcements underscore the company's commitment to delivering industry-leading innovation across its product portfolio. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 will be available from leading board partners starting in July 2025, joining AMD's recently announced Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series processors, which bring record-setting core counts and massive memory bandwidth to professional workstations.
For gaming enthusiasts, AMD also unveiled the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card, which features AMD's RDNA 4 architecture and delivers smooth 1440p gaming with FSR 4 ML-enhanced upscaling and accelerated ray tracing. The card will be available in both 8GB and 16GB variants, with the 16GB model priced at $349.99 and launching on June 5th.