AMD's Radeon Pro WX 7100 with the Ellesmere XT reminds us a little of the current Fiat Tipo. You get a lot of performance for the money, you usually even need much less and, despite all the positive points, you get annoyed about unnecessary little things from time to time. Only if we are honest: Where do you get the perfect product right away?
But at least this is where the newly blossomed commitment of AMD's Radeon Pro team comes in, because we can't remember that in the past there would have been so much openness and disbelief with constructive feedback – on the contrary. But in this way, one reacts freely according to the motto that in a short time fitting, which does not yet fit – as long as it makes sense and one only argues convincingly enough.
Which brings us to the positioning of the Radeon Pro WX 71000. While for Nvidia's Quadro M4000 at approx. 840 Euros (if you only take into account reputable providers), the Radeon Pro WX 7100 can do this from just under 700 euros. After all, that's a difference of around 140 euros, where you have to question whether the extra charge is really worth it.
This is of course decided by the user profile and the preferred applications. This is the point that can be decided for or against the Radeon Pro WX 7100, if you compare the feature list of both cards, which could hardly be more different from the factory. The Radeon Pro has significantly higher computing power on paper with 5.7 TFLOPS (SP) and 0.365 TFLOPS (DP), while the Quadro M4000 has 2.5 TFLOPS (SP) and 2.5 TFLOPS (SP) respectively. 0.080 TFLOPS (DP) as it is rather modest.
AMD can also score points with the cheaper card when it comes to certified applications that require special drivers and hardware to run at all. Of course, the Virtulelle Reality (VR) comes into play, whereby the card is primarily aimed at professional users who produce VR-related content. Solidworks and Creo are certainly just one example of many.
Conclusion
AMD has actually done pretty much everything right with the Radeon Pro WX 7100 – and after the driver update including the BIOS patch for the production BIOS, the card also delivers exactly what you would expect from it.
The WX 7100 is not a cheap home, of course, but sometimes we thought that it was actually the better Radeon RX 480. The GPU clock is more honestly positioned and completely sufficient. Together with a much better functioning power supply, the Radeon Pro WX 7100 also lands where we would have loved the Radeon RX 480 in terms of power consumption and efficiency. Only when power consumption in idle mode should some fine-tuning be carried out.
Which closes the circle again and we can recommend the map. If you don't necessarily rely on Quadro drivers and CUDA, you'll also be happy with the Radeon Pro WX 7100 and save money. AMD also provides a ten-year warranty consisting of a general 3-year guarantee for all buyers and a subsequent seven-year additional guarantee that will be received by any buyer who makes the purchase from a certified retail retailer and registered with AMD within 45 days of purchase.
In addition, AMD is releasing a kind of quarterly enterprise driver with the new Radeon Pro software that promises more stability and flexibility. We have already been able to experience for ourselves that customer feedbeck is also expressly desired for this purpose. Thus, the path taken now seems to be the right one, because simply changing names and appearances is not enough on its own.
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