AMD's Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) has been teasing the product we will be presenting performance metrics for in the pages ahead, for almost year now. A dual-Fiji powered Radeon card was brought out on display by AMD's CEO Lisa Hsu last June, though at the time, no name had been designated for the card. Then last month, in a joint announcement with Crytek and the company's VR First initiative, AMD unveiled the 16 TFLOP Radeon Pro Duo at its Capsaicin event at GDC 2016 for the first time. There was significant build-up for this card, and rightfully so, with the potential for it to be the fastest single-board graphics card on the market, at least for a period of time.As you might imagine, we were more than a little surprised when AMD informed us they wouldn't be sampling the card to members of the Tech press. The company had its reasons, which we won't speculate on, but will offer again the statement that AMD made, which is that the Radeon Pro Duo is a graphics card for “gamers who create, and creators who game." Quite frankly that sounded a LOT like many of us here at HotHardware. After all, we render, transcode, build and create lots of content for various platforms both web, video and otherwise. We are indeed thatdemographic of creators who game. The Radeon Pro Duo would surely be in good hands with us, so we thought, but that was not in AMD's plan. And so we set out to obtain a card through the other channels we have at our disposal here, because we thought it was important for you the reader to see what it was made of performance-wise, and what AMD had been so proud of showing off for the last 11 months or so.