Summary
Without raytracing you can live very well in the workstation area, if you don’t have to or don’t want to work in such special areas as a content creator. But it remains to be seen if the green ray hype train will get so busy that it can’t be avoided anymore. When it comes to developers and designers, you have to weigh up where the customer-specific premises lie, because the differences between the products from AMD and Nvidia are much more widely spread.
The current street price of about 830 Euros for the Radeon Pro W5700 is certainly a good argument if you rely on software with which the card is really really good. Even Solidworks always cuts a good figure in the latest versions. However, where there is a lot of light, there is always a shadow, and thus, some of the tested applications have performance losses or performance disadvantages in comparison to the competitor’s product. Whereby the positive impressions finally outweigh the negative ones.
Because even if some applications don’t really like it yet, most of them are still not unusable and you can wait for improvement. Here AMD’s driver team is challenged, also concerning the hardware compatibility with the own products. I don’t want to bring this up, but why AMD did not test this graphics card on a potent Ryzen system with PCIe 4.0 is probably only known by AMD itself. Apart from the advertising factor, which you’re giving away, you’re probably also leaving bandwidth behind when it comes to really large workloads that demand more than the most malicious games. Or maybe they had the same problems as me?
The technical implementation of the card, with a fully equipped board in the voltage regulators in contrast to the Radeon RX 5700, is a clean thing. The cooler works as it should and in the end even quieter than feared, but still audible under load. In return, the waste heat is at least almost completely removed from the case via the slot bezel. Apropos waste heat. The power consumption necessary for this is finally kept within limits, even if you can’t reach the Quadro RTX 4000 in many respects. But the beginning is made.
Conclusion
Catched up yes, caught up but also overhauled one has the Quadro RTX 4000 (still) not completely. But at least AMD is finally close enough to be able to play again. The Radeon Pro W5700 will find its buyers, there I am very safe, even if the green faction has still the nose in front in so some application. For simpler tasks, suitable software or semi-professional work with certified drivers, the card is always suitable. There is no need to hide with it.
If the water block fits as hoped for, I will do another rebuild and overclock the card within its possibilities. And if you think that’s not possible – with a little thought I managed to do it anyway despite the lock. So stay tuned, even if something like this is rather counterproductive for productive use. But to know that something works if you want it to is fun factor to the power of three. And surely nobody has anything against a water-cooled workstation graphics card. Enough spoiling for today, you read!
AMD Radeon PRO W5700, 8GB GDDR6, 5x mDP, USB-C (100-506085)
 | Zentrallager: verfügbar, Lieferung 3-5 WerktageFiliale Wilhelmshaven: nicht lagerndStand: 25.04.24 07:33 | 231,43 €*Stand: 25.04.24 07:37 |
 | Sofort lieferbar | 231,44 €*Stand: 25.04.24 07:28 |
 | Abhol-/Versandbereit in 1-3 Werktagen | 235,96 €*Stand: 25.04.24 07:36 |
- 1 - Introduction, Unboxing, Technical Data
- 2 - Tear Down: PCB and Cooler
- 3 - SPECviewperf 13
- 4 - Creo 3
- 5 - Solidworks 2019
- 6 - Solidworks 2019 Enhanced Graphics
- 7 - 3ds Max 2015
- 8 - Inventor Pro 2020
- 9 - 2D Performance - GDI and GDI+
- 10 - Rendering and Compute
- 11 - Premiere Pro 2020 (v14) and HEVC
- 12 - Power Consumtion and PSU Recommendation
- 13 - Temperatures, Clock Rate, Infrarot
- 14 - Fan Speed and Noise
- 15 - Conclusion and Bottom Line
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