To cater to our key audience of designers, engineers, design visualisers and architects – we focussed on five professional applications in the areas of 3D CAD, real time visualisation, VR and ray trace rendering.
Intel Xeon W-2125 (4.0GHz, 4.5GHz Turbo) (4 Cores) CPUįor AMD GPUs we used the 18.Q4 driver. Our test machine is a typical mid-range workstation with the following specifications. Pricing for the RTX 4000 has not yet been released. The RTX 5000 is currently available on pre-order at .uk for £1,832 (Ex VAT). Both Nvidia GPUs are set to be replaced imminently with the Turing-based Quadro RTX 4000 (8GB GDDR6) and Quadro RTX 5000 (16GB GDDR6), which should offer significant performance increases. There’s also the Quadro P5000 (16GB GDDR5X), a double slot GPU with a max power consumption of 180W, which comes in at £1,399 (Ex VAT) on .uk.įor the purpose of this review we put the WX 8200 up against the P4000 and P5000 and also the WX 9100 and the WX 7100, AMD’s mid-range single slot pro GPU, which has 8GB of GDDR5 memory and costs £521 (Ex VAT). With a max power consumption of 105W, it also has the benefit of being compatible with an entry-level workstation, such as the HP Z2 Tower or Dell Precision 3630 Tower, and only needs one six-pin external power connector. It’s a single slot GPU and is much less power hungry. The P4000 features 8GB of GDDR5 memory but is very different in terms of its physical packaging. On .uk, the P4000 is currently available for £675 (ex VAT), £115 less than the WX 8200. In terms of competition, the Radeon Pro WX 8200 is naturally pitted against the Nvidia Quadro P4000 as they have similar price points. In saying that, the WX 8200’s High Bandwidth Cache Controller (HBCC) can help you work beyond the physical memory limits of the GPU by allocating a portion of the workstation’s system memory for it to use, but more on this later. If you plan to multitask and work in 3D as you render a scene in the background, it’s even more critical and 8GB is likely to be too little. It is also becoming much more important for VR and real time visualisation, particularly at 4K resolution and above. This is a key consideration for GPU rendering, as memory plays a crucial role. The WX 8200 has 8GB of fast HBM2 memory with ECC support, while the WX 9100 has double that at 16GB. The big difference between the two GPUs is memory. On .uk, it is currently going for £790 (ex VAT), whereas the WX 9100 will set you back £1,220 (ex VAT). On paper this is around 88% of what the WX 9100 offers with 4,096 Stream Processors and 12.3 TFLOPs, but it costs considerably less. The WX 8200 packs in 3,584 Stream processors and delivers 10.75 TFLOPs of Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance. It has four mini DisplayPort outputs while the WX 9100 has six. It means you’ll need a mid-range to high-end workstation, such as the HP Z4 or Dell Precision 5820 Tower, with a pretty hefty power supply and both a 6-pin and 8-pin external power connector. Both are double slot GPUs with a thermal design power (TDP) of 230W, which is quite a lot for a desktop GPU. 
The Radeon Pro WX 8200 is very similar to its older sibling, the WX 9100, both in terms of looks and specifications.
However, this bold claim was qualified in the footnotes, tested under select workflows including Adobe Premiere Pro, Autodesk Maya, Radeon ProRender and Blender Cycles. At launch, AMD claimed that for real-time visualisation, virtual reality (VR) and photorealistic rendering, it offered the best workstation graphics performance for under $1,000. On paper, this GPU is very similar to the WX 9100, but it costs considerably less. This summer, AMD added a new high-end model to the fold, the Radeon Pro WX 8200.
Our tests showed it generally sat somewhere between the Nvidia Quadro P4000 and Quadro P5000 but performed well in select workflows such as OpenCL-based ray trace rendering and immersive VR in DirectX applications. The Radeon Pro WX 9100 fell a little short of expectations. Last year it extended this to the high-end with the Radeon Pro WX 9100, the first professional GPU to feature the company’s long-awaited Vega GPU architecture. It’s been two years since AMD launched its Radeon Pro WX family of GPUs, starting with the Radeon Pro WX 4100 & WX 5100, focused on 3D CAD and the Radeon Pro WX 7100 for entry-level GPU rendering and VR.
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