AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200 review – Benchmarks and exclusive hardware details

1 - Unboxing, Daten, Testsystem 2 - Platine und Kühler 3 - Benchmarks 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 6 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung

With the Radeon Pro WX 8200, AMD is pushing a new workstation graphics card with Vega56, which is located below the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Frontier Edition (both Vega64). The price is less than 1000 Euros, which is a unique selling point for a workstation graphics card in this performance class. You place yourself somewhere between a Quadro P4000 and the P5000. That's where there's a bigger gap in Nvidia.

At 965 grams, the card is still just under a kilo, but it is not a real lightweight. And that's a good thing, because the cooling has to come from somewhere. The card is 27 cm long between the outer edge of the slot panel and the end of the radiator cover, measures 10.5 cm from the top edge of the slot panel to the top edge of the graphics card housing and is 3.8 cm thick. There is no backplate and it is a pure dual slot card, which could also be operated in the Crossfire if necessary.

The stated performance of the smaller Vega chip is 21.5 TFLOPs for the Peak Half Precision (FP16), 10.75 TFLOPs for the Peak Single Precision (FP32) and peak precision double operations (FP64) with 672 GFLOPs.

You can see that you also have to invest something for this performance at the two external PCIe supply connections at the end of the card (8-pin + 6-pin). In addition, as is common with workstation graphics cards, the card can also be screwed to the end as needed to avoid hanging through the motherboard.

The Radeon pro offers compatibility with Radeon VR Ready Creator, AMD Eyefinity Technology (Professionals), Radeon ProRender, Radeon Rays, Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Code Engine (VCE). It also supports AMD's DirectGMA technology and S400 Synchronization Modules.

Unlike the Radeon Pro WX 9100 and Frontier edition, the total number of outputs is limited to 4x Mini-DP 1.4.  This allows you to create 4x 1920-1080, 4x 3840-2160, 3x 5120-2880 or 1x 7680-4320 (every 60Hz) displays. The larger Radeon Pro WX 9100, on the other hand, can control up to 6 displays.

The rest of the slot panel serves as an air outlet for the hot exhaust air of this Direct Heat Exhaust (DHE) card. Any further connection would actually even disturb. The screenshot of GPU-Z gives us a first impression, even if the GPU clock speeds do not correspond to reality. But more on that later.

I also want to spoil the next page quickly, because AMD leaves trampled Vega paths here, both in terms of the power supply and the thermal paste used. It's interesting.

Technical data and comparison maps

At the end of this introduction, once again the maps I used in the benchmark in the tabular overviews. First the three AMD cards, although unfortunately I was not able to organize a working Radeon Pro 9100. For this, my Frontier Edition has to come up with a cost of 999 USD for the launch and which can also be used with the Radeon Pro software.

For a direct comparison, I also listed Nvidia's Quadro cards, which also had to compete for the test:

I would like to note that daily prices can of course fluctuate. In addition, I only rated reputable online stores and no eBay auctions or unclear retailers on Amazon's Market Place.

Test system and measurement methods

We have already described the new test system and the methodology in detail in the basic article "How We Test Graphics Cards, as of February 2017" and therefore refer to this detailed basis for simplicity. Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: